Meaning of Quote | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To repeat (the exact words of a person).
   transitive
2. To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.
   transitive
3. To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
   transitive
4. To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
   intransitive
5. To observe, to take account of.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“The writer quoted the president's speech.”

“Can you believe they quoted me $5,000?”

“But must our moderne Critticks envious eye Seeme thus to quote some grosse deformity?”

“That hath made him mad. I am sorry that with better heed and judgment I had not quoted him. I fear'd he did but trifle …”

“I prethe doe, twill be a sceane of mirth For me to quote his passions and his smiles, His amorous haviour, …”

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