different between snipper vs excerpt

English

Etymology

snip +? -er

Noun

snipper (plural snippers)

1. Agent noun of to snip; a person or thing that snips.
2. A tool used for snipping.

Anagrams

• Nippers, nippers, prespin

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p?r

Noun

snipper c (plural snippers, diminutive snippertje n)

1. a shred, a snippet

Derived terms

• snipperen

English

Etymology

From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?(?)(p)t/, /???z?(?)(p)t/, /?k?s?(?)(p)t/, /??ks?(?)(p)t/

Noun

excerpt (plural excerpts)

1. A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.

Translations

Verb

excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)

1. (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey

     out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars

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Further reading

• excerpt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• excerpt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.