Quote

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For the Wikipedia quotation templates, see Category:Quotation templates.

Quote can be a noun or a verb:


Noun

  • In punctuation, quotation marks, can be known as quotes or inverted commas,
  • Financial quote or Sales Quote, a commercial statement detailing a set of products and services to be purchased in a single transaction by one party from another for a defined price.


Verb

  • To quote is to repeat something from another source without changing it (see also: paraphrase).


Quote as a noun refers to the punctuation mark: " or an estimation of costs. Another extremely common use of quote as a noun defines it as "something that is quoted". In this meaning it replaces the longer word quotation, although in formal contexts the latter is still preferred.


For example: "We shall fight them on the beaches" is referred to as a quotation, not a quote.

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