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quote
has definitions from the fields of fine art,writing,business,grammar
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[ verb ] repeat a passage from
Synonyms Examples "He quoted the Bible to her Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Liston is Bill_Liston , baseball writer for the Boston_Traveler , who quoted Jensen as saying : (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures , however , believing that any sum they come_up with is only a surface manifestation - turned_up by their inevitably limited policing - of the real loot of the medical racketeer . (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)There have been contradictory reports from 1958 Delta_2 , and the data quoted here are believed to be the more reliable . They quote about the same mass threshold as that of the U.S. apparatus , but a momentum threshold about 40 times greater . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques , full of dash and wit and glamor , quoting from the books I read , imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special , after_school class I was enrolled . |
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[ noun ] a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
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[ verb ] (business) name the price of
Examples "quote prices for cars" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (grammar) put quote marks around
Examples "Here the author is quoting his colleague" Related terms |
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