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
Terezinha	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
Briallen	bree-AHSH-en	Welsh
Orsino	-	Italian
Effie	['efi]
Ruedi	-	German (Swiss)
Marko	MAHR-ko (Finnish)	Ukrainian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Finnish, Basque