excerpt

«excerpt» in Mova's school dictionary: a short part taken from a longer book, film, speech or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an excerpt, excerpts); verb (excerpt — formal)

meaning for a pupil

1) An excerpt is a short part taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music. tree →

2) (formal verb) To excerpt is to take out such a part to show or use it. tree →

sense in the lessons

Reading lessons and tests use excerpts («Read the excerpt and answer the questions»). Music and film too. Phrases: an excerpt from, short excerpt, read the excerpt.

examples

• Read the excerpt from «The Secret Garden». tree →
• The test had an excerpt about whales. tree →
• We watched an excerpt from the film. tree →
• The choir sang an excerpt from the musical. tree →
• This excerpt shows how the character feels. tree →
• The newspaper printed an excerpt of the speech. tree →

note

Say «EK-surpt». Similar: extract, passage, clip. An excerpt is only part of the story, so you may not know what happened before or after.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «excerpt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.