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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To repeat or copy the words of (another), usually with acknowledgment of the source.
2. v. To cite or refer to for illustration or proof.
3. v. To repeat a brief passage or excerpt from: The saxophonist quoted a Duke Ellington melody in his solo.
4. v. To state (a price) for securities, goods, or services.
5. v. To give a quotation, as from a book.
6. n. Informal A quotation.
7. n. A quotation mark.
8. n. Used by a speaker to indicate the beginning of a quotation.
9. n. A dictum; a saying.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To note down; set down in writing; hence, in general, to note; mark; observe.
2. To adduce from some author or speaker; cite, as a passage from some author or a saying of some speaker; name, repeat, or adduce as the utterance of some other person, or by way of authority or illustration; also, to cite the words of: as, to quote a passage from Homer; to quote Shakspere or one of his plays; to quote chapter and verse.
3. In writing or printing, to inclose within quotation-marks; distinguish as a quotation or as quoted matter by marking: as, the dialogue in old books is not quoted.
4. In com., to name, as the price of stocks, produce, etc.; name the current price of.
5. To cite the words of another; make a quotation.
6. n. A note upon an author.
7. n. A quotation, or the marking of a quotation.
8. n. A quotation-mark: usually in the plural.
9. n. A quotient.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To refer to (part of) a speech that has been made by someone else.
2. v. transitive To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
3. v. Commerce (transitive) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
4. v. intransitive To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
5. v. archaic To observe, to take account of.
6. n. A quotation, statement attributed to someone else.
7. n. A quotation mark.
8. n. A summary of work to be done with a set price.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration.
2. v. To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion.
3. v. (Com.) To name the current price of.
4. v. obsolete To notice; to observe; to examine.
5. v. obsolete To set down, as in writing.
6. n. obsolete A note upon an author.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
2. n. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
3. v. name the price of
4. v. repeat a passage from
5. v. refer to for illustration or proof
6. v. put quote marks around