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Quote can be a noun or a verb: Money Quote: "Money changes people into what they are not"- Erika P.
Money Quote: "Money changes people into what they are not"- Erika P.
Noun
Used as a noun, the word "quote" is an abbreviation of "quotation", and not technically correct. However, it is generally accepted in normal use.
- In punctuation, quotation marks, can be known as quotes or inverted commas,
- Financial quote or sales quote, a commercial statement detailing a set of products and services to be purchased in a single transaction by one party from another for a defined price.
Verb
- To quote is to repeat something from another source without changing it (see also: paraphrase).
Quote as a noun refers to the punctuation mark: " or an estimation of costs. Another extremely common use of quote as a noun defines it as "something that is quoted". In this meaning it replaces the longer word quotation, although in formal contexts the latter is still preferred.
For example: "We shall fight them on the beaches" is referred to as a quotation, not a quote.
See also
- Paraquote
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Here are some nice quotes from the fourth president of the United States, James Madison.
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