excerpt

noun
/ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/UK/ˈɛɡzɝ(p)t/CA/ˈeɡzɜː(p)t/

Etymology

From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).

  1. derived from excerptus

Definitions

  1. A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or…

    A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.

  2. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

    • out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for excerpt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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