Associations to the word «Excerpt»
Noun
Wiktionary
EXCERPT, noun. A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media
EXCERPT, verb. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
Dictionary definition
EXCERPT, noun. A passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings".
EXCERPT, verb. Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.