quote
to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
to repeat words from (a book, author, etc.).
to use a brief excerpt from: The composer quotes Beethoven's Fifth in his latest work.
to cite, offer, or bring forward as evidence or support.
to enclose (words) within quotation marks.
Commerce.
to state (a price).
to state the current price of.
Idioms about quote
quote unquote, so called; so to speak; as it were: If you're a liberal, quote unquote, they're suspicious of you.
Origin of quote
1Other words from quote
- quoter, noun
- outquote, verb (used with object), out·quot·ed, out·quot·ing.
- pre·quote, verb (used with object), pre·quot·ed, pre·quot·ing.
- re·quote, verb (used with object), re·quot·ed, re·quot·ing.
- su·per·quote, verb, su·per·quot·ed, su·per·quot·ing, noun
- un·quot·ed, adjective
Words that may be confused with quote
- quotation, quote
Words Nearby quote
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How to use quote in a sentence
When you first set up Halo, it asks you to read a few quotes from classic literature.
Amazon’s new fitness tracker listens to your voice to figure out your mood | Stan Horaczek | September 2, 2020 | Popular-ScienceBelow you’ll find key takeaways, quotes and stats, as well as videos from our recent Future of Work event, presenter slides from DailyPay and more.
Deep Dive: How companies and their employees are facing the future of work | Digiday | September 1, 2020 | DigidayFor example, let’s say the first time you shared the article you included a quote from the piece in the social copy.
Five content promotion strategies SaaS marketers should implement today | Izabelle Hundrev | August 28, 2020 | Search Engine WatchThis post has also been updated to correct a word in a quote from Nathan Fletcher that was mis-transcribed.
Supervisor by Day, But a COVID-19 Skeptic on the Airwaves | Katy Stegall | August 20, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThere’s no value that is sustained from that one-off experience apart from a nice quote, there’s no new framework or structure to advance people professionally.
‘You have to innovate on the value’: The disparate state of virtual event ticketing | Lucinda Southern | August 7, 2020 | Digiday
Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
That quote has been misattributed to him since it first appeared in 1881, when Ben would have been 175 years old.
The quote appears on the bronze plaque the players touch before they take the field for home games.
The quote is apocryphal, but that has not changed its significance for Army football players.
“Telling employees to stick to authorized legal boundaries is a good thing,” he said Wednesday when asked about the quote.
CIA Interrogation Chief: ‘Rectal Feeding,’ Broken Limbs Are News to Me | Kimberly Dozier | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsI shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordTo quote Mrs. Kaye, 'A Liberal peer is as useful as a fifth wheel to a coach, and as ornamental as whitewash.'
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonWolff has illustrated this point by a series of experiments on the sunflower, of which we shall quote one.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonHowever and whatever (to quote Amy again), the intentions were that brought the crowd, the Norwood place was comfortably filled.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret Penrose
British Dictionary definitions for quote
/ (kwəʊt) /
to recite a quotation (from a book, play, poem, etc), esp as a means of illustrating or supporting a statement
(tr) to put quotation marks round (a word, phrase, etc)
stock exchange to state (a current market price) of (a security or commodity)
an informal word for quotation (def. 1), quotation (def. 2), quotation (def. 3), quotation (def. 4)
(often plural) an informal word for quotation mark put it in quotes
an expression used parenthetically to indicate that the words that follow it form a quotation: the president said, quote, I shall not run for office in November, unquote
Origin of quote
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