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QUOTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passage or expression that is quoted or cited

Synonyms:

citation; quotation; quote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("quote" is a kind of...):

excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quote"):

epigraph (a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing)

mimesis (the representation of another person's words in a speech)

misquotation; misquote (an incorrect quotation)

Derivation:

quote (repeat a passage from)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

Synonyms:

inverted comma; quotation mark; quote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("quote" is a kind of...):

punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quote"):

single quote (a single quotation mark)

double quotes (a pair of quotation marks)

scare quote (the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology)

Derivation:

quote (put quote marks around)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put quote marks around

Example:

Here the author is quoting his colleague

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "quote" is one way to...):

mark; punctuate (insert punctuation marks into)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

quote (a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Repeat a passage from

Example:

He quoted the Bible to her

Synonyms:

cite; quote

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "quote" is one way to...):

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)

Verb group:

cite; quote (refer to for illustration or proof)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "quote"):

misquote (quote incorrectly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

The parents quote a French poem to the children

The parents quote the children a French poem

Derivation:

quotation (the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.)

quotation; quote (a passage or expression that is quoted or cited)

quoter (a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Refer to for illustration or proof

Example:

He said he could quote several instances of this behavior

Synonyms:

cite; quote

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "quote" is one way to...):

advert; bring up; cite; mention; name; refer (make reference to)

Verb group:

cite; quote (repeat a passage from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Name the price of

Example:

quote prices for cars

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "quote" is one way to...):

give (convey or reveal information)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "quote"):

underquote (quote a price lower than that quoted by (another seller))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

quotation (a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Nor was material prosperity alone hers, for, because of her wonderful son and the position he had given her, she came to be looked upon as the first woman in all the village; and the women were given to visiting her, to asking her advice, and to quoting her wisdom when arguments arose among themselves or with the men.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

At a later day, I knew the language and the book; therefore, I will here quote the line: though, when I first heard it, it was only like a stroke on sounding brass to me—conveying no meaning:—"'Da trat hervor Einer, anzusehen wie die Sternen Nacht.' Good! good!" she exclaimed, while her dark and deep eye sparkled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His celebrated passages are quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions; but this is totally distinct from giving his sense as you gave it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day and needed quiet; besides, I was reassured by the doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended by the offer of a bribe.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them," according to Dr. Teodora Wi, a medical officer involved in human reproduction at the WHO, quoted in a news release from the UN agency.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)

What was it you quoted me the other day?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“’Who steals my purse steals trash,’” she quoted.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I thought you hated to be tied to a woman's apron string? retorted Jo, quoting certain rebellious words of his own.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As to her family, they were totally unworthy of her, and their sentiments were utterly indifferent to him, and they might—I quote his own expression—go to the Devil.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)