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Summary vs Excerpt - What's the difference?

summary | excerpt |

As nouns the difference between summary and excerpt

is that summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material while 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 summary

is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.

As a verb excerpt is

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

summary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
    • A summary review is in the appendix.
  • Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
    • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
  • (legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
    • Summary justice is bad justice.

    Noun

    (wikipedia summary) (summaries)
  • An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

    • Synonyms

    * upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)

    Derived terms

    * executive summary * management summary

    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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