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Quote
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- 1 Used in speech to indicate the start of a quotation.
"She told me she was, quote, "too hot for you.""
- 1 A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
"She loved reading quotes of famous people."
- 2 a passage or expression that is quoted or cited wordnet
- 3 A quotation mark.
- 4 a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else wordnet
- 5 A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation.
"After going over the hefty quotes, the board decided it was cheaper to have the project executed by its own staff."
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- 6 A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity; a quotation.
- 1 To repeat (the exact words of a person). transitive
"The writer quoted the president's speech."
- 2 put quote marks around wordnet
- 3 To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate. transitive
"Can you believe they quoted me $5,000?"
- 4 repeat a passage from wordnet
- 5 To name the current price, notably of a financial security. transitive
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- 6 refer to for illustration or proof wordnet
- 7 To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation. intransitive
- 8 name the price of wordnet
- 9 To observe, to take account of. archaic
"But must our moderne Critticks envious eye Seeme thus to quote some grosse deformity?"
Etymology
From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority” to “to copy out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.
From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority” to “to copy out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.
From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”). The sense developed via “to give as a reference, to cite as an authority” to “to copy out exact words” (since 1680); the business sense “to state the price of a commodity” (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of “quotation,” is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below.
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