A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film, a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media, a passage selected from a larger work, verb_ take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy, To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work, transitive verb_ To select; to extract; to cite; to quote, To select or use material from (a longer work)