1. (n.) The act of excerpting or selecting.
2. (n.) That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
Thesaurus Entries
choose out, citation, cite, cull, cull out, decide between, excerption, extract, extraction, glean, handpick, make a selection, passage, pick, pick out, quotation, quote, select, selected passage, selection, sift, single out, take, winnow
