Word Finder - quotation

definition

A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but also scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.

example

"Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.

synonyms

• citation
• quote

definition

A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

example

Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.

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The act of setting a price.

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A quota, a share.

The brevity of the note and its lack of doctrinal significance prevented it from gaining frequent quotation in the early Christian literature, but it appears in Marcion's canon as well as in the Muratorian, whilst Tertullian mentions, and Origen expressly quotes it.

A quotation from this gospel is given by Epiphanius.

The quotation shows that this gospel was the expression of complete pantheism.

The difficulty stated in the foregoing quotation, although now mainly of historic importance, exerted great influence upon the development of the American census prior to 1900.

On the title-page of both is the quotation "In his Temple doth every man speak of his honour."

He seemed vague about the source of the quotation.

It is possible that the writer may have used a quotation preserved from a real speech by Quintilian.

Interpolation is sometimes due to an inopportune use of knowledge, as when a quotation or a narrative is made to agree with what the interpolator has read elsewhere.

The expectations were often grossly materialistic, as is evidenced by Papias's quotation as the words of the Lord of a group of sayings from the Apocalypse of Baruch, setting forth the amazing fruitfulness of the earth in the Messianic time.

To indicate the variety of uses to which jute is applied, the following quotation may be cited from the official report of Hem Chunder Kerr as applying to Midnapur.

This would explain the quotation of the two documents together by the council of Toledo, since the heresy lasted on for a long time in Spain.

Formerly the greatest 3 This and the following passages in quotation marks are from Professor Wilson's translation of too Sakhis, pp. 83-90.

Sometime we find quotation marks within a text at inappropriate places.

A full account of the battle of' Beachy Head, written with ample quotation of documents, and for the purpose of vindicating Herbert, will be found in Admiral Colomb's Naval Warfare (London, 1 899).

Many of his speeches were monuments of erudition, but the wealth of detail, of allusion, and of quotation, often from the Greek and Latin, sometimes detracted from their effect.

The literal interpretation of this picturesque quotation has been influenced by the prosaic comments at the end of v.

I understand you may be," he crooked his fingers in quotation marks, "entertaining them here."

Using the system of Latin abbreviations, the first quotation from a text is referenced fully with an endnote.

Plagiarism consists of substantial or verbatim quotation from an unacknowledged source.

Most stones merely contained a record of birth and death, but some include a biblical quotation.

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For opening quotation marks use the ' key (i.e. the apostrophe) rather than ` .

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Still, the context in which the quotation occurs makes it evident that the subject-matter was not the nature of particular species nor the spiritual lessons to be drawn therefrom, but rather the place occupied by animal beings in the system of creation.

Shortly afterwards, with his vanity and love of popularity inflamed, he pandered to the passions of the lower orders by the publication of his Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens which, with an almost fiendish reference to the excesses of the mob, he headed by a quotation from St John, Qui male agit odit lucem.

In Preuschen, Reste, p. 13, the quotation breaks off too soon.

You have published a profile under a page lead headline that was a concocted quotation which was, in my view clearly defamatory.

Breaks in the quotation are indicated by an ellipsis.

Simon wrote a work called the " Great Announcement, " a fragment of which is yet extant in a quotation made by Hippolytus.

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See also qualitative quotation To repeat (quote) words that someone else has written.

Note that short quotations use quotation marks - longer, indented quotations do not.

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Suppliers would be requested to submit a formal quotation.

Do get an accurate written quotation for all work required.

Excite requires quotation marks to indicate a phrase search, otherwise they are linked by the Boolean operator OR.

They were, to use the term in the first quotation above, ' increasingly secularized ' .

In theology the term "accommodation" is used rather loosely to describe the employment of a word, phrase, sentence or idea, in a context other than that in which it originally occurred; the actual wording of the quotation may be modified to a greater or lesser extent.

For the quotation which follows, see Oesterley and Box, The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue (London, 1907).

He hated ignorance, but he hated still more half-learning, and most of all dishonesty in argument or in quotation.

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Most stones merely contained a record of birth and death, but some include a Biblical quotation.

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For opening quotation marks use the ' key (i.e. the apostrophe) rather than `.

Direct quotations from a document should be in quotation marks e.g. The education of professional nurses must meet quality standards.

Additionally, a quotation from Fincher defines the quality of realism in the film.

They were, to use the term in the first quotation above, ' increasingly secularized '.