Vignette vs Excerpt - What's the difference?
vignette | excerpt |
(architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
(printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
(by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
(by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
The small picture on a postage stamp.
(photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, to produce an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.
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
As nouns the difference between vignette and excerpt
is that vignette is sticker, adhesive label 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 a verb excerpt is
to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.vignette
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* vignetter * vignettistSee also
* colophon * coronisVerb
(vignett)Derived terms
* vignetting ----excerpt
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(en noun)Verb
- out of which we have excerpted the following particulars
