Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of excerpting or picking out; a gleaning; selection.
- noun That which is selected or gleaned; an excerpt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of excerpting or selecting.
- noun rare That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of excerpting or selecting.
- noun That which is selected or gleaned; an
extract .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a passage selected from a larger work
Etymologies
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Examples
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'excerption' was a real word until I started leading the work on this.
Ben Ward 2009
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It would be vain to attempt here any adequate excerption of lines of singular beauty.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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It would be vain to attempt here any adequate excerption of lines of singular beauty.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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First up, I want to see the value-excerption work seen out within the next couple of months.
Ben Ward 2009
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Basically, value-excerption in hCard got implemented in parsers globally, so we're trying spec it more fully to reflect that.
Ben Ward 2009
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The past few months have seen a surge of work on the awkwardly named value excerption
Ben Ward 2009
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Rational Review 2009
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Accordingly, the building has taken its inspiration from plants, most noticeably in the form of the soaring timber roof, which gives the building its distinctive shape. "- wikipedia excerption with true knowledge of true places.
A Mess 2010
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