Excerpt vs Selected - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between excerpt and selected

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

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

that have been selected or chosen.

(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

To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

* Fuller

out of which we have excerpted the following particulars

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(head)

That have been selected or chosen.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

(head)

(select)