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Webster 1913 Edition
Quotation
1.
The act of quoting or citing.
2.
That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
Locke.
4.
Quota; share.
[Obs.]
5.
(Print.)
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.
Quotation marks
(Print.)
, two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quotation
QUOTA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of quoting or citing.2.
The passage quoted or cited; the part of a book or writing named, repeated or adduced as evidence or illustration.3.
In mercantile language, the naming of the price of commodities; or the price specified to a correspondent.4.
Quota; share. [Not used.]Definition 2024
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English
A quotation of French text.
Noun
quotation (plural quotations)
- A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
- Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- quotation mark
- RFQ (request for quotation)
Related terms
Translations
fragment of a human expression
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act of naming a price; price that has been quoted
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