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Excerpt vs Condensed - What's the difference?

excerpt | condensed |

As verbs the difference between excerpt and condensed

is that excerpt is to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work while condensed is (condense).

As a noun excerpt

is a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media.

As an adjective condensed is

the state of having been condensed; highly concentrated.

excerpt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media

    • Verb

  • To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
  • * Fuller
    • out of which we have excerpted the following particulars

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    condensed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (condense)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • The state of having been condensed; highly concentrated.

    • Synonyms

    * compact, compressed, concentrated