transcription, транскрипция: [ kwoʊt ]
( quotes, quoting, quoted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you quote someone as saying something, you repeat what they have written or said.
He quoted Mr Polay as saying that peace negotiations were already underway...
She quoted a great line from a book by Romain Gary...
I gave the letter to our local press and they quoted from it.
VERB : V n as -ing , V n , V from n
2.
A quote from a book, poem, play, or speech is a passage or phrase from it.
The article starts with a quote from an unnamed member of the Cabinet.
= quotation
N-COUNT : oft N from n
3.
If you quote something such as a law or a fact, you state it because it supports what you are saying.
Mr Meacher quoted statistics saying that the standard of living of the poorest people had fallen.
VERB : V n
4.
If someone quotes a price for doing something, they say how much money they would charge you for a service they are offering or a for a job that you want them to do.
A travel agent quoted her £160 for a flight from Bristol to Palma...
He quoted a price for the repairs.
VERB : V n n , V n
5.
A quote for a piece of work is the price that someone says they will charge you to do the work.
Always get a written quote for any repairs needed.
= quotation
N-COUNT
6.
If a company’s shares, a substance, or a currency is quoted at a particular price, that is its current market price. ( BUSINESS )
In early trading in Hong Kong yesterday, gold was quoted at $368.20 an ounce...
Heron is a private company and is not quoted on the Stock Market.
V-PASSIVE : be V-ed at amount , be V-ed on n
7.
Quotes are the same as quotation marks . ( INFORMAL )
The word ‘remembered’ is in quotes.
N-PLURAL
8.
You can say ‘ quote ’ to show that you are about to quote someone’s words. ( SPOKEN )
He predicts they will have, quote, ‘an awful lot of explaining to do’.
CONVENTION