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excerpting

excerpting is the present participle and gerund of excerpt.

Meaning of excerpt

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.
    • out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey

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Noun

excerpting (plural excerptings)

  1. The act of taking an excerpt.
    • The Maine excerpts and notes are distinguished from the others by virtue of the great amount of comment and polemic introduced by Marx in the course of his excerptings.1999, Bob Jessop, Charlie Malcolm-Brown, Russell Wheatley, Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments

Forms of excerpting

pluralexcerptings

Questions about excerpting

What does excerpting mean?
Excerpting means the act of taking an excerpt.
What is excerpting the present participle and gerund of?
Excerpting is the present participle and gerund of excerpt.
What part of speech is excerpting?
Excerpting is a noun.
What is the plural of excerpting?
The plural of excerpting is excerptings.

Words near excerpting in the dictionary

  1. excerpta
  2. excerpted
  3. excerpter
  4. excerpters
  5. excerptible
  6. excerpting
  7. excerptings
  8. excerption
  9. excerptions
  10. excerptive
  11. excerptor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excerpting (page history and authors); excerpt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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