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quotation

noun
/kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/US

Etymology

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.

  1. derived from quotō
  2. borrowed from quotātiō

Definitions

  1. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from…

    A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.

    • "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.

  2. The act of quoting someone or something.

    • One of these preachers was a blacksmith, whose iron constitution had entirely given way, and the little strength that remained he exhausted in endless quotation of texts from the Bible.
    • In his mature works, [Chinary] Ung pays regular homage to Cambodian music by evoking its ambience without resorting to quotation of specific Cambodian melodies.

  3. A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.

    • Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The act of setting a price.

    2. A quota, a share.

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Derived

disquotation, indirect quotation, logical quotation, misquotation, overquotation, quasiquotation, quotational, quotationally, quotation dash, quotationist, quotationless, quotation mark, request for quotation, requotation, RFQ, underquotation

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at quotation

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