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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «excerpt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excerpt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.