The students have to analyze an excerpt from the book.
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Excerpt
//ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t//
Synonyms for "excerpt" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (19)
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Translations
56 translations across 28 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نبذة – مقتطفات من noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Bulgarian
2 entries- извадка noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- откъс noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Catalan
1 entries- extracte noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 摘录 noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- 節錄 /节录 noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- 摘录 verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
Czech
1 entries- výňatek noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Danish
2 entries- excerpt noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- uddrag noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Dutch
2 entries- fragment noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- passage noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Finnish
4 entries- katkelma noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- ote noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- poiminto noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- kopioida verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
French
3 entries- extrait noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- passage noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- extraire verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
Georgian
1 entries- ამონარიდი noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
German
3 entries- Auszug noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- Exzerpt noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- exzerpieren verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
Greek
1 entries- απόσπασμα noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Hebrew
2 entries- מוּבָאָה noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- קֶטַע noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Hungarian
2 entries- kivonat noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- szemelvény noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Icelandic
2 entries- brot noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- hluti noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Indonesian
2 entries- cuplikan noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- mencuplik verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
Italian
2 entries- estratto noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- estrarre verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
Japanese
2 entries- 抄録 noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- 抜粋 noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Latin
1 entries- excerptum noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Marathi
1 entries- उतारा noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Māori
1 entries- wāhanga noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Norwegian
1 entries- utdrag noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Polish
2 entries- fragment noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- urywek noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Portuguese
3 entries- excerto noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- passagem noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- trecho noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Russian
4 entries- вы́держка noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- отры́вок noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- де́лать выдержки verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
- подбира́ть цитаты verb (to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work)
Slovene
3 entries- izsek noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- izvleček noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- odlomek noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Spanish
2 entries- excerpta noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
- excerta noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Swedish
1 entries- utdrag noun (a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
I was planning to include an excerpt from The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Dan played an excerpt of classical music to the students.
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I would say that a verse is a structural unit, whereas a passage or excerpt can consist of parts of multiple verses or a small part of a verse.
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