Excerpt vs Quotation - What's the difference?
excerpt | quotation |
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
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
As nouns the difference between excerpt and quotation
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 quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc, may be quoted.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
* *quotation
English
(wikipedia quotation)Noun
(en noun)- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.