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quote(2) (iou)



quote verb & noun2. Orig. cote. LME.
[medieval Latin quotare to number, from Latin quot how many or medieval Latin QUOTA. Cf. French coter.]
A. verb.
I. verb trans. Mark (esp. a book) with numbers (as of chapters etc.), (marginal) references, or lines. rare. LME-E17.
a. verb trans. Give the page, chapter, reference to (a passage of text). L16-M17.
b. verb intrans. Set down references. rare. L16-M17.
verb trans. Repeat a passage from or statement by; cite or refer to (a person or text), esp. as the source of or authority for a statement. L16.
Observer If the devil can quote scripture, surely a bishop can quote Lenin. New Yorker I wouldn't want to be quoted on this. Guardian 'Martyrs are nobler than us all', the president is quoted as saying on a..plaque nearby.
verb trans. Repeat or copy out (a passage, statement, etc.), usu. with an indication that one is borrowing another's words; transf. repeat (a passage or tune) from one piece of music to another. Also foll. by from. L17.
Guardian He quoted some well-known lines from Goethe.
b. verb intrans. Make quotations. Freq. foll. by from. L18.
E. Blishen Someone quoting from a railway timetable.
c. verb trans. Used parenthetically to indicate the start of a quotation. Cf. UNQUOTE verb. M20.
K. Hulme My radiophone operator said, quote, he's a wellknown..oddity, unquote.
II. verb trans. Make a note or record of; notice, observe; write down. L16-M17.
verb trans.
a. Note, or mention, for some quality or action. L16-E18.
b. Cite or put forward as an instance or example of or as having a particular quality or doing a particular thing. E19.
N. Young Shifts in Labour policy..were quoted as CND successes.
verb trans. State the price of (a stock, commodity, service, etc.); state the odds in (a race, bet, etc.). Also, give (a person) a quotation for goods, services, etc. E19.
Which? Give them full details of the product.., and they quote you the..price. County Cuisine David quoted him 1,000..and won the order. Wall Street Journal The dollar was quoted at 1.8548 marks.
b. noun.
A (marginal) reference; a note. Only in E17.
a. A passage or remark quoted; a quotation. L19.
T. S. Eliot Not use the Conrad quote?
b. A quotation mark. Usu. in pl. L19.
Scottish Leader The portion of this quotation which we have put within quotes.
A price or amount quoted. M20.
quotative adjective & noun (a) adjective (chiefly Linguistics) pertaining to, inclined to, or indicating quotation; (b) noun (Linguistics) a quotative word or expression: E19.
quotativeness noun (rare) the quality of being quotative L19.
quo'tee noun a person who is quoted E19.
quoter noun L16.