quotation

Everyday

1. Words copied exactly from a book, speech or person, usually shown with quotation marks: "To be or not to be" is a famous quotation. tree →
2. A price that a builder or company says a job will cost; a quote. tree →
3. «Quotation marks» are the signs ' ' or " " put around spoken or copied words. tree →

In the lessons

In English lessons pupils use quotation marks for speech and use quotations from texts as evidence. In maths and everyday life: «The quotation for painting the fence is $240» — compare quotations to find the cheapest. Phrases: «quotation marks», «a famous quotation», «get a quotation», «in quotation marks».

Examples

• Put quotation marks around the words the character says. tree →
• Find a quotation from the poem to support your answer. tree →
• The builder gave us a quotation of £500. tree →
• Which of three quotations, $120, $95 or $110, is the cheapest? tree →
• That's a famous quotation from Shakespeare. tree →
• Write the title in quotation marks. tree →
• Mum got two quotations for fixing the roof. tree →
• In giving summaries, also, I have kept closely to the text, and always translated literally the passages marked as quotations. tree →

Note

Countable: quotations. Informal short form: quote (noun) — «get a quote». Verb: quote. In the UK, 'single' marks are common; in the US, "double" marks. A quotation must copy the words exactly.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Commentators of Sefer Yetzirah often point to a verse from the Bible as the source of a phrase in the book, as with the "running and returning" of the living creatures in Ezekiel. In the primary lessons: In English lessons pupils use quotation marks for speech and use quotations from texts as evidence. In maths and everyday life: «The quotation for painting the fence is $240» — compare quotations to find the cheapest. Phrases: «quotation marks», «a famous quotation», «get a quotation», «in quotation marks».

Examples

• ThetextgivesonlyRTzUAV ShUB— "currendo et redeundo," but the commentators have generally considered this to be a quotation from Ezekiel i. 14, referred to H ChIVT, the living creatures, kerubic forms. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

Note

Countable: quotations. Informal short form: quote (noun) — «get a quote». Verb: quote. In the UK, 'single' marks are common; in the US, "double" marks. A quotation must copy the words exactly.