QUOTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quote mean? 

• QUOTE (noun)
  The noun QUOTE has 2 senses:

1. a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

2. a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

  Familiarity information: QUOTE used as a noun is rare.

• QUOTE (verb)
  The verb QUOTE has 4 senses:

1. repeat a passage from

2. name the price of

3. refer to for illustration or proof

4. put quote marks around

  Familiarity information: QUOTE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUOTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

inverted comma; quotation mark; quote

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A passage or expression that is quoted or cited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

citation; quotation; quote

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)

• QUOTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they quote    ... he / she / it quotes   
Past simple: quoted   
Past participle: quoted   
-ing form: quoting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repeat a passage from

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cite; quote

Context example:

He quoted the Bible to her

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 2

Meaning:

Name the price of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

quote prices for cars

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Refer to for illustration or proof

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cite; quote

Context example:

He said he could quote several instances of this behavior

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:

Put quote marks around

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Here the author is quoting his colleague

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)

 Context examples 

I knew that he still had the diary, for when I was in Siberia I had a letter from him once, reproaching me and quoting some passages from its pages.

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

Again they fell to quoting, and Maud gave Dowson’s “Impenitentia Ultima.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"We are the sworn enemies of society," he found himself quoted as saying in a column interview.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Already his opinion is quoted in the clubs as a rival to my own.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As an example I may quote one of my own worst blunders—I can afford to talk of my blunders, for you know my work well enough to be aware of my successes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You quote an isolated sentence from my lecture, and appear to have some difficulty in understanding it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the note I wrote to Miss Mills, I bitterly quoted this sentiment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.

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

Mr. March strolled placidly about, quoting Tusser, Cowley, and Columella to Mr. Laurence, while enjoying...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“‘Answers to the name of Buck,’” the man soliloquized, quoting from the saloon-keeper’s letter which had announced the consignment of the crate and contents.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)