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
Eustorgio	-	Italian
Medley	['medli]
Alfred	['æ:frid]
PÁL	PAHL	Hungarian
Iunia	-	Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin
Irina	ee-REE-nah (Russian), EE-ree-nah (Finnish)	Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Finnish, Georgian