QUOTE

I. verb (~d; quoting) see: who Date: 1582 transitive verb 1. to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment, to repeat a passage from especially in substantiation or illustration, borrow 2a , to cite in illustration , 3. to state (the current price or bid-offer spread) for a commodity, stock, or bond, to give exact information on, to set off by quotation marks, intransitive verb to inform a hearer or reader that matter following is ~d, ~r noun II. noun Date: 1888 quotation , quotation mark