What's the difference between archive and excerpt?

Archive


Definition:

  • (n.) The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
  • (n.) Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (2) This study shows that the sensitivity and specificity of in situ hybridisation for the detection of EBV genomes in AIDS related lymphomas approaches that of Southern blotting, even when using routinely processed archival, paraffin wax embedded material.
  • (3) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (4) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
  • (5) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
  • (6) A comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program should be implemented for all teleradiology and picture archival and communications (PACS) systems.
  • (7) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
  • (8) An anonymous source, “John Doe”, gave the archive to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung .
  • (9) The targeted building housed document archives and a library regularly used by Gaddafi, according to officials.
  • (10) Taking advantage of the availability of an archive of consanguineous marriages that gives accurate estimates of consanguinity in Italy, it has been possible to calculate the increase of first- and second-cousin marriages among 624 couples of cystic fibrosis (CF) parents over the general population.
  • (11) Official papers released by the National Archives show that the "wets" – notably Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle, Lord Soames and Francis Pym – were able to demonstrate that a majority of the cabinet rejected as unnecessarily harsh Sir Geoffrey Howe's demands for further public spending cuts and tax cuts.
  • (12) The DMM acts as an image file server and an image archive device.
  • (13) Samples of fresh and archival thyroid tissue, stained with propidium iodide, were analysed on the flow cytometer and the peak channel number noted.
  • (14) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (15) In his article, Adams also hits out at the controversial history archive in which ex-IRA members name Adams as the commander who gave the order for the widow to be killed and buried at a secret location.
  • (16) A successful PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) implementation requires an eclectic integration of a number of key technologies.
  • (17) A number of studies have suggested that HIV infection can be detected in a variety of routinely fixed archival tissues using antibodies to various viral proteins.
  • (18) Twitter also lets you download an archive of your data, mostly made up of your Tweets.
  • (19) Nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) ploidy studies of paraffin-embedded archival tumor specimen blocks were performed by flow cytometry on extracted nuclei from 101 surgically resected hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer.
  • (20) In addition, we examined 31 archival in situ carcinomas, 15 snap-frozen invasive ductal carcinomas, primary cell cultures from three benign breast tissue samples, and breast carcinoma cell lines MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468.

Excerpt


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
  • (n.) An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch an excerpt from Netanyahu’s speech to Congress That address, which was prompted by an invitation from the then speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, was seen by many Democrats as breaking a longstanding tradition of bipartisan support for the US-Israeli relationship.
  • (2) Highlighting an excerpt of the interview, which Harri claimed was "implying the mayor is 'losing his touch' because he 'failed' to upstage the PM", he criticised the decision to allow Purnell to "pontificate without challenge, qualification or allowing us a right to reply" and described the author as someone who "knows no one in No 10".
  • (3) Known popularly as the “Google Tax”, the law requires services that post links and excerpts of news articles to pay a fee to the Association of Editors of Spanish Dailies.
  • (4) The Fox News anchor showed excerpts of clips that had been released by CBS earlier on Monday at his request and claimed they backed up his descriptions of the peril he faced when reporting from the country at the end of the Falklands war.
  • (5) In excerpts of these videos I am shown making a series of glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting comments”, Gruber told the committee.
  • (6) Case excerpts are presented to illustrate typical forms of the subjective processing of migration and marginalization.
  • (7) Click here to listen While an excerpt from the single leaked last week, the full version is now available to those who have ordered the singer's documentary on DVD.
  • (8) Reuters gave him earphones so he could listen to excerpts during an interview at a Beijing hotel restaurant, to which he was followed.
  • (9) Nick Collison, Undercover Agent in "The Meaning of the Postseason" (An excerpt from "The Files of Nick Collison: Undercover Baller for the FBI" an upcoming True Crime book.)
  • (10) "Our economy will continue to grow solidly while making deep cuts in carbon pollution," Swan will say, according to excerpts of his speech obtained by Reuters .
  • (11) The Task Force report, which is excerpted in the following paper, established a tiered taxonomy of competencies; defined the three levels; and set forth program models for the two higher levels.
  • (12) An excerpt showing the steps needed to make a request for a medical transfer.
  • (13) ... Ronald and Nancy Reagan were defined by their love for each other.” Baker also read an excerpt from one letter Ronald wrote to Nancy that said: “I live in a permanent Christmas because God gave me you.” In a heartfelt eulogy, the Reagans’ daughter, Patti Davis, recalled her mother’s struggles after her father died.
  • (14) Presenting "these selective and out-of-context excerpts with the intent of creating both controversy and ridicule nevertheless resulted in people searching for and visiting Church of Scientology websites," she said.
  • (15) Appearing on Maddow’s show, Johnston said he did not know who sent him the excerpts from Trump’s 2005 return, which appeared in his mailbox.
  • (16) And here is an excerpt: Oscar Pistorius 's murder trial has resumed, with a neighbour and friend giving a heart-wrenching account of finding the "broken" athlete coming down the stairs, holding his dead girlfriend in his arms.
  • (17) Excerpt: “As in most wars, the first shots fired receive the loudest cheers.
  • (18) Excerpts On police uniforms "Having gone truncheons to tasers in a generation, I have to wonder what purpose the current police service has been built for ... we are mostly approachable and pleasant people, it's just that we dress like Imperial Stormtroopers.
  • (19) But the trouble is if you take that long a view, people don’t always know what you’re on about.” In earlier excerpts printed in the paper, Mayer paints a picture of Clarence House as a household torn apart by turf wars.
  • (20) She also tweeted an excerpt of a speech she gave in parliament last week.