excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
(noun) a passage selected from a larger work; “he presented excerpts from William James’ philosophical writings”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
excerption (countable and uncountable, plural excerptions)
The act of excerpting or selecting.
That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*cerp"tion, n. Etym: [L. excerptio.]
1. The act of excerpting or selecting. [R.]
2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [R.] His excerptions out of the Fathers. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
