quote
verb
[ kwəʊt ]
• repeat or copy out (words from a text or speech written or spoken by another person).
• "I realized she was quoting passages from Shakespeare"
Similar:
recite,
repeat,
say again,
reproduce,
restate,
retell,
echo,
iterate,
parrot,
take,
extract,
excerpt,
derive,
misquote,
ingeminate,
• give someone (the estimated price of a job or service).
• "a garage quoted him £30"
• give (a company) a quotation or listing on a stock exchange.
• "a British conglomerate quoted on the London Stock Exchange"
quote
noun
• a quotation from a text or speech.
• "a quote from Wordsworth"
• a quotation giving the estimated cost for a particular job or service.
• "quotes from different insurance companies"
• a price offered by a market-maker for the sale or purchase of a stock or other security.
• "quotes for North Sea Brent were rising"
Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from medieval Latin quota (see quota). The original sense was ‘mark a book with numbers, or with marginal references’, later ‘give a reference by page or chapter’, hence ‘cite a text or person’ (late 16th century).
