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Definition of qute

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1. quote [ v ] repeat a passage from
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 .

Synonyms quote cite Related Terms repeat misquote reference quotation citation quotation

2. quote [ n ] a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

Synonyms quote inverted_comma quotation_mark Related Terms punctuation scare_quote double_quotes single_quote

3. quote [ v ] name the price of
Examples: "quote prices for cars"

Synonyms quote Related Terms give underquote quotation

4. quote [ v ] refer to for illustration or proof
Examples: "He said he could quote several instances of this behavior"

Synonyms cite quote reference Related Terms write mention writing citation reference

5. quote [ v ] put quote marks around
Examples: "Here the author is quoting his colleague"

Synonyms quote Related Terms punctuate quotation_mark

6. quote [ n ] a passage or expression that is quoted

Synonyms quotation citation quote Related Terms excerpt epigraph mimesis misquotation mention reference

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