Excerpt and Line

Excerpt

Excerpt noun - A part taken from a longer work.

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Line and excerpt are semantically related. in citation topic. In some cases you can use "Line" instead a noun "Excerpt".

Nearby Words: excerpted, excerpting, excerption

Line noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.

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Excerpt and line are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excerpt" instead a noun "Line".

Nearby Words: lined, linear, lineup, lineage, lineal

good	good excerpt	good line
full	full excerpt	full line
particular	particular excerpt	particular line
brief	brief excerpt	brief line
Other adjectives: short, direct, original, small, actual, little.

An epigraph is the quotation of a line, excerpt or poetry done at the beginning or (more rarely) at the ending of a work, segment or chapter.

Source: Epigraph
Amused To Death ends with another excerpt from the interview with a World War 1 veteran that opened the album, so the line isn't scripted but definitely included as a Shout-Out:Interviewer: When was it that you saw his name on the memorial?

Source: Music / Roger Waters
As the Good Book Says: After Van Alden's Trauma Conga Line leads to him being interrogated by Al Capone for information on O'Bannion, Nelson starts muttering an excerpt from the Book of Job under his breath.

Source: Series / Boardwalk Empire

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