excerptible

An excerptible passage is highlighted in the textbook.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Able to be excerpted: "excerptible" describes something, typically a text or passage, that can be selected, extracted, or quoted from a larger work.

Usage Examples

• (The paragraph can be extracted and quoted.)
• (Only certain sections can be taken out and used separately.)

Advanced Usage

• "excerptible material": content that is suitable or permitted for quotation or extraction.
  • The publisher marked the document with notes indicating which parts were excerptible. (The publisher specified which sections could be quoted.)

Variants and Related Words

• Excerpt (noun/verb): a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; to take such a passage.

  • She read an excerpt from the novel. (A short selected passage.)
  • You may excerpt the first chapter for review. (To extract a passage.)

• Excerptibility (noun): the quality or state of being excerptible.

  • The excerptibility of the text depends on its structure. (How easily it can be quoted.)

Synonyms

• Quotable: suitable for being quoted.
• Extractable: capable of being taken out or removed.

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