What does quotation mean?
Definitions for quotation
kwoʊˈteɪ ʃənquo·ta·tion
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word quotation.
Princeton's WordNet
citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation(noun)
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
"the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
quotation, quote, citation(noun)
a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
quotation(noun)
a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
quotation(noun)
the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
"since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"
Wiktionary
quotation(Noun)
A fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature, but also sentences from a speech, scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, etc. may be quoted.
"Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
quotation(Noun)
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.
Webster Dictionary
Quotation(noun)
the act of quoting or citing
Etymology: [From Quote.]
Quotation(noun)
that which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration
Etymology: [From Quote.]
Quotation(noun)
the naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named
Etymology: [From Quote.]
Quotation(noun)
quota; share
Etymology: [From Quote.]
Quotation(noun)
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
Etymology: [From Quote.]
Freebase
Quotation
A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by quotation marks. A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition.
Editors Contribution
quotation
The act and process of to quote.
The quotation was accurate and specific to the request for quotation and was submitted.
Submitted by MaryC on April 7, 2020
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'quotation' in Nouns Frequency: #2792
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of quotation in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of quotation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of quotation in a Sentence
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926):
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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- اقتباسArabic
- цитатBulgarian
- citát, kótaceCzech
- citering, citationDanish
- Angebot, Preisangebot, ZitatGerman
- cita, citación, cotizaciónSpanish
- نقل قولPersian
- tarjous, sitaatti, lainausFinnish
- citation, devis, cotationFrench
- às-aithrisScottish Gaelic
- מוּבָאָה, צִיטָטָה, צִטּוּטHebrew
- उद्धरणHindi
- idézetHungarian
- tilvitnunIcelandic
- citazione, preventivoItalian
- 引用Japanese
- 인용, 引用Korean
- citaatDutch
- sitatNorwegian
- wycena, cytatPolish
- citaçãoPortuguese
- citatRomanian
- предложение, цитатаRussian
- цитат, citatSerbo-Croatian
- citatSwedish
- geçerli fiyat, alıntıTurkish
- bảng báo giáVietnamese
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