Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The act of quoting.
- n. A passage quoted.
- n. An explicit reference or allusion in an artistic work to a passage or element from another, usually well-known work: "Direct quotations from other paintings are fairly sparse” ( Robert Hughes).
- n. The quoting of current prices and bids for securities and goods.
- n. The prices or bids cited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature, but also sentences from a speech, scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, etc. may be quoted.
- n. The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of quoting or citing.
- n. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
- n. The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also, the price named.
- n. Quota; share.
- n. A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of quoting or citing.
- n. That which is quoted; an expression, a statement, or a passage cited or repeated as the utterance of some other speaker or writer; a citation.
- n. In com., the current price of commodities or stocks, published in prices-current, etc.
- n. [Abbr. of quotation-quadrat.] In printing, a large hollow quadrat, usually of the size 3 × 4 picas, made for the larger blanks in printed matter.
- n. Synonyms Extract. See quote.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
- n. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- n. the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
- n. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Etymologies
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Examples
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This quotation is a favorite of liberals, although it does not appear in the earliest and best manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke.
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This quotation is attributed to Bill Gates, but Mr. Shapiro suspects that it is apocryphal, and is seeking the person who either said it or first attributed it to Mr. Gates.
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He recalled the quotation from the English essayist Walter Bagehot: “We must not let daylight in upon the magic.”
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This post needed more words in "quotation". zinkywinks
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I think you should edit the text in quotation marks to read "absolute honesty" and not "absolutely honesty".
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So now at least I am going into appeal with a quotation from the S.C. nomineeanon (Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination
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What I find interesting about this quotation is not necessarily the thought behind it, but that something written for an academic journal in 1915 should read so easily in 2010.
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For text, quotation is currently barely interesting in fair use law.
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Being anonymous is not lying, and I hardly think referring to her employer as Steve in quotation marks qualifies.
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The quotation is superfluous to the argument, but it is good advice, and would be even better were it closer to what Donne actually wrote:
kmalhotra612 commented on the word quotation
Quotation is a part of a speech which shows the deep penetration or the depth of the intellectual or an emotional side of an author. We can say that it is an act of repeating the expression again as the part of another, especially when that part is cited with its original source. It is punctuated or indicated by “quotation marks”.
http://www.yoalfaaz.com/blog/86
March 5, 2016
uselessness commented on the word quotation
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
January 25, 2007