HOW TO PRONOUNCE
excerpt
/ˈɛksɚpt/
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As a noun, stress the first syllable.
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2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She read an excerpt from her novel.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does excerpt mean?
noun
- A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
verb
- To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛksɚpt/
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/ˈɛɡzɝ(p)t//ɛɡˈzɝ(p)t//ɛkˈsɝ(p)t//ˈɛksɝ(p)t/
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The conclusion, that 'the motive force in birds' wings is apparently ten thousand times greater than the resistance of their weight,' is erroneous, of course, but study of the translation from which the foregoing excerpt is taken will show that the error detracts very little from the value of the work itself.
Those who are interested in learning more of the fateful history of Zadig must turn to the original; we are dealing with him only as a philosopher, and this brief excerpt suffices for the exemplification of the nature of his conclusions and of the methods by which he arrived at them.