excerption

Meanings

• Noun

  The act of taking out or extracting a part from a larger work, especially a literary or musical composition.

  - "He made an excerpt from the book for his presentation."
  - "The orchestra played an excerpt from Mozart's Symphony No. 40."

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Variants

List of all variants of excerption that leads to same result
excerpt , excerpted , excerpter , excerpters , excerpting , excerption , excerptions , excerptor , excerptors , excerpts

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Etymology

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From the Latin excerptus, past participle of excipere, meaning 'to take out'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'excerpt' comes from the Latin word 'excerptus', which means 'taken out'.

2. Excerpts have been used in literature since ancient times, with one of the earliest known examples being the 'Iliad' by Homer.

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Related Concepts

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1. Quotation: An excerpt is a type of quotation, but not all quotations are excerpts. A quotation is a direct copy of someone else's words, while an excerpt is a selected part of a larger work.

2. Extract: An extract is another term for an excerpt, but it can also refer to extracting data from a database or other information source.

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Quotes

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1. The fiction that the magazine does publish is too often "excerpted" from novels or imminently forthcoming collections, making the magazine seem more a flack for publishers than a site of editorial strength and vision.

   - Vince Passaro,{it}Harper's{/it},August 1999

2. How quickly does the Net move? Last Friday journalist Michael Colton posted an elaborate Web parody of the forthcoming magazine {it}Talk{/it}, which is owned by Miramax and helmed by former {it}New Yorker{/it} editor Tina Brown. Within hours, the site's URL had ricocheted about in countless e-mails, and the Drudge Report had "excerpted" the text.

   - {it}Newsweek{/it},26 July 1999

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Culture

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Excerpts have been used throughout history in various fields, such as education, research, and performance. In education, excerpts are used to help students understand complex concepts by breaking them down into smaller, more manageable parts. In research, excerpts are used to support arguments and provide evidence. In performance, excerpts are used to showcase specific pieces of music or literature.

How to Memorize "excerption"

1. visualize
   

   - To memorize the word 'excerpt', imagine extracting a part from a larger work, such as a book or a piece of music.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'excerpt' with the idea of extracting or taking out a part of something.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Extract a part from a larger work' to help remember the meaning of the word 'excerpt'.

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