Excerpt

Noun

 * 1) a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media

Verb

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

Synonyms for Excerpt
citation, extract, quote, selection, culling, abbreviation, clipping.

Thesaurus
choose out, citation, cite, cull, cull out, decide between, excerption, extract, extraction, glean, handpick, make a selection, passage, pick, pick out, quotation, quote, select, selected passage, selection, sift, single out, take, winnow

Etymology
From excerptus, past participle of excerpere: < ex: + carpere:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: откъс
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 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: poiminto, ote
 * French: ,
 * German:
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 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: отрывок, выдержка
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