to excerpt
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- verb
- /ˈɛk.sɜːrpt/
:
extraer de
- Similarly, teachers can excerpt such brief quotations and have the students create their own generalizations.
- excerpted from a book
- excerpted passages
- excerpted from a letter
Examples
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Interview transcripts were excerpted into small, meaningful units that focused on participants' views of having fun.
Academic text (1998) -
The personal testimonies collected by its fieldworkers are to be found (primarily in excerpted form) throughout its publications.
Academic text (1994) -
And then they ask you to to excerpt something from your report and put it in the back.
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Significantly different speech if you just excerpt that part, or what if you excerpted this part.
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The items of the instrument were excerpted from the testing question pool designed by the researchers.
Academic text (2008) -
"Some of the callers' statements were excerpted from actual Internet confessions and staged during the interview."
Fiction book (2001) -
The four poems that appear here are excerpted from my book-length manuscript, Uncertain Territories.
Fiction book (1995) -
Accordingly, the test consisted of reading selections excerpted directly from standard training materials used in police academies in Texas.
Academic text (1998) -
In the Wounded Knee reminiscence excerpted here, Valandry's clergyman stepfather personified the clerical.
Academic text (1998) -
In our next issue, we will excerpt a passage from the author's latest novel for our readers.
Synonyms
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To remove something from a place or container
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To take a short part from a book or article to quote
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Surface Forms
Morphology
excerpt = ex + cerpt
The prefix 'ex-' suggests 'out' or 'taking out', which aligns with the verb meaning, but the root '-cerpt' is not a standalone English word, so the structure is not fully transparent to learners.
Etymology
Excerpt comes from the same Latin parts ex- 'out' and carpere 'to pick', so it feels like 'picking out' lines or scenes to use. That's why to excerpt something is to take a short part from a text, film, or piece of music to use or quote elsewhere.