excerpt from

excerpt something from something

to select a part of something from the whole. We excerpted a few short scenes from the play and performed them for the class. A few paragraphs had been excerpted from the film as an example.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vimala	-	Tamil
Cintia	THEEN-tyah (Spanish), SEEN-tyah (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish, Hungarian
Lykourgos	-	Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek
Xenia	-	Greek, Ancient Greek
Liz	LIZ	English
Salut	-	Catalan