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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.

Text


Definition:

  • (n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
  • (n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
  • (n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
  • (n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
  • (n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
  • (v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
  • (2) Sara Tomlinson, 45, received a text message from her 16 year old daughter Katie at about 3pm.
  • (3) It is of particular interest that in this paraprotein the major component is a biantennary complex-type oligosaccharide that lacks a fucose residue and an oligosaccharide with the structure (Formula: see text) exists as one of the most abundant components.
  • (4) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
  • (5) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
  • (6) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
  • (7) It is microcomputer-based, and more easily set up and administered than the drifting-text procedure.
  • (8) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
  • (9) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
  • (10) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
  • (11) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
  • (12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
  • (13) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
  • (14) The O-polysaccharide was found to be a high molecular weight polymer of a repeating pentasaccharide unit composed of D-mannose, D-galactose, L-rhamnose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-formamido-D-rhamnose residues (1:1:1:1:1) and had the structure: [formula: see text]
  • (15) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.
  • (16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (17) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
  • (18) Usually the condition for quasi-equilibrium is expressed in terms of the rate constants around EHR: (formula: see text) i.e.
  • (19) Subjects read text passages and occasionally responded to lexical-decision probes.
  • (20) Purified U3B RNA was subjected to various enzymatic digestion procedures, including digests of 32P-labeled U3B RNA, RNA ligase, and polynucleotide kinase labeling, for determination of its primary sequence which is: (formula: see text).