Excerpt vs Illustration - What's the difference?
excerpt | illustration | Related terms |
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
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
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, year=2012
, date=June 19
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=England 1-0 Ukraine
, work=BBC Sport
A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from http://www.evaluatelifeinsurance.org
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Excerpt is a related term of illustration.
As nouns the difference between excerpt and illustration
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 illustration is illustration.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
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* *illustration
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(wikipedia illustration)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}
