Financial and business terms. 2012.
quotation — / quote [n1] repetition of something spoken or written by someone citation, citing, cutting, excerpt, extract, passage, quote, recitation, reference, saying, selection; concepts 274,278 quotation / quote [n2] financial estimate bid, bid price,… … New thesaurus
quote — quotation / quote [n1] repetition of something spoken or written by someone citation, citing, cutting, excerpt, extract, passage, quote, recitation, reference, saying, selection; concepts 274,278 quotation / quote [n2] financial estimate bid, bid … New thesaurus
quote, unquote — As an abbreviation for the noun quotation, quote is an informal coinage (neologism) that should not appear in serious writing: This is a quotation (not quote) from the Bible. As a verb, quote means to copy or repeat the words of someone else, to… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
quote — quote1 W3S2 [kwəut US kwout] v [Date: 1300 1400; : Medieval Latin; Origin: quotare, from Latin quot how many ] 1.) [I and T] to repeat exactly what someone else has said or written quote from ▪ She quoted from a newspaper article. ▪ He quoted a… … Dictionary of contemporary English
quote —— unquote — informal used parenthetically to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation. → quote … English new terms dictionary
Quotation mark, non-English usage — Quotation marks, also called quotes, speech marks or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may… … Wikipedia
Quote mining — is the practice of purposely compiling frequently misleading quotes from large volumes of literature or speech.cite book | last = Forrest | first = Barbara | authorlink = Barbara Forrest | coauthors = Paul R. Gross | title = Creationism s Trojan… … Wikipedia
quote — [kwōt] vt. quoted, quoting [altered (infl. by L) < ME coten < ML quotare, to mark the number of, divide into chapters < L quotus, of what number < IE * kwoti , how many < interrogative base * kwo > WHO] 1. to reproduce or repeat … English World dictionary
quote — ► VERB 1) repeat or copy out (a passage or remark by another). 2) repeat a passage or remark from. 3) (quote as) put forward or describe as being. 4) give someone (an estimated price). 5) (quote at/as) name (someone or something) at (specified… … English terms dictionary
quotation — (n.) mid 15c., numbering, later (1530s) marginal notation, from M.L. quotationem (nom. quotatio), from quotare to number (see QUOTE (Cf. quote)). Meaning passage quoted is from 1680s. Quotation marks attested by 1777 … Etymology dictionary
