quotation vs quote
Definitions
noun
- a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
- the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
Examples
During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
The distich caused discussion regarding the quantity of "hic", but the pope defended the prosody of Voltaire who confirmed his opinion by a quotation from Virgil which he said ought to be the epitaph of
I quote it at length, with O'Reilly's rather selective quotation in boldface.
Definitions
noun
- a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
verb
- repeat a passage from
- put quote marks around
- refer to for illustration or proof
- name the price of
Examples
The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story.
None of the books quotes any sources or authorities for its statements, and all have pathetic indexes.
I can't quote you chapter and verse but I think it's a line from 'Macbeth'.
