Excerpt vs Extraction - What's the difference?
excerpt | extraction |
a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media
To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
* Fuller
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
A person's origin or ancestry.
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
* Milton
(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
As nouns the difference between excerpt and extraction
is that 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 while extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.As a verb excerpt
is to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.excerpt
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
- out of which we have excerpted the following particulars
External links
* *extraction
English
Noun
(en noun)- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.