Synonyms of the word

excerption

• n. The act of excerpting or selecting.
• n. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

excerpt

• n. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition…
• v. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

extract

• n. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
• n. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
• n. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential…
• n. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained.
• n. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant…
• n. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all…
• n. Ancestry; descent.
• n. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein,…
• v. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction,…
• v. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
• v. (transitive) To select parts of a whole.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

passage

• n. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
• n. Part of a path or journey.
• n. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
• n. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
• n. A passageway or corridor.
• n. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
• n. (euphemistic) The vagina.
• n. The act of passing.
• v. (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium.
• v. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
• n. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic,…
• v. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

selection

• n. The process or act of selecting.
• n. Something selected.
• n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• n. A musical piece.
• n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.