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# excerpt

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

«excerpt» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An excerpt is a short part taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#m1)
2. (formal verb) To excerpt is to take out such a part to show or use it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#x1)
- The test had an excerpt about whales. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#x2)
- We watched an excerpt from the film. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#x3)
- The choir sang an excerpt from the musical. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#x4)
- This excerpt shows how the character feels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#x5)
- The newspaper printed an excerpt of the speech. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#x6)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «excerpt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«excerpt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/excerpt.html) on Mova free.