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cite

verb
/saɪt/

Etymology

From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”). Sense 4 is the original one.

  1. derived from cito — “to cause to move, excite, summon”
  2. derived from citer

Definitions

  1. To quote

    To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.

    • WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

  2. To mention

    To mention; to make mention of.

    • Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.

  3. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal…

    To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

      • According to the tribe’s chairman, rangers cited five of the demonstrators, who had traveled to Nevada from New York, Washington, California and the European country of Malta. The chairman did not say what they were cited for.

    2. A citation.

      • We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.

The neighborhood

Derived

citability, citable, cital, cocite, miscite, overcite, re-cite, subcite

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cite. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cite. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at cite

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA