Quote \Quote\ (kw[=o]t), n. A note upon an author. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
Quote \Quote\ (kw[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quoting}.] [OF. quoter, F. coter to letter, number, to quote, LL. quotare to divide into chapters and verses, fr. L. quotus. See {Quota}.] [Formerly written also {cote}.] 1. To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
2. To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
3. (Com.) To name the current price of.
4. To notice; to observe; to examine. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. To set down, as in writing. [Obs.] ``He's quoted for a most perfidious slave.'' --Shak.
Syn: To cite; name; adduce; repeat.
Usage: {Quote}, {Cite}. To cite was originally to call into court as a witness, etc., and hence denotes bringing forward any thing or person as evidence. Quote usually signifies to reproduce another's words; it is also used to indicate an appeal to some one as an authority, without adducing his exact words.
Those for strict interpretation quote an article by Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist.
It is, to quote Mr. Rourke: "Will they keep eating fresh seafood or switch because it's too expensive?
In one arrangement, Access places a quote screen in a customer's office.
This has to be done through advanced logistics, getting delivery of needed parts to the manufacturing cell "just-in-time," to quote the modern jargon.
I love to hear you quote it.
The late New York quote for sterling was $1.5645 compared to $1.5585 Thursday.
Mr. Arnold cites a reported quote by a major union executive that the strike could last for weeks and even months if the guerrillas follow through on their threat.
" "There never has been," he said. "And you can quote me on that." At a Faith No More show, there might be a few disgruntled faces amid the long hair and tattoos.
Review editors, hoping to defend the newspaper from these attacks and discover who inserted the Hitler quote, asked the Hanover, N.H., police to investigate under a law that makes computer tampering a felony.
I would not presume to comfort Mrs. Reagan, but surely there's some consolation, however small, in knowing that only 1,002 sycophants hated her enough for Kitty Kelley to quote them.
But rather than rehash old theories, I quote radio commentator Lynn Samuels: "America is the only country with lone, deranged gunmen. In every other country, leaders are killed by organized coups working with orchestrated plans.
Skripka, the Foreign Ministry official in Moscow, made sure a reporter saw a villager's quote reported in the Operation Salam newsletter.
Because I was lectured very firmly about the "Solidarnosc" being, quote, outlawed, unquote.
It adds the quote from the Surgeon General.
Sometimes, he alludes to Churchill but doesn't quite get the whole quote out.
Hong Kong markets were closed for a holiday Friday and a gold quote wasn't available.
Ketchum's Ms. Snedaker says the quote came from the actress's publicist, who was misquoted.
"You should never quote a Chinese person by name," one Chinese journalist told a Western reporter. "It's just too dangerous for them." Intellectuals ask foreign friends to call from public phones or to just drop in to help skirt surveillance.
Dealers continued to make markets for retail accounts, but in many cases they declined to quote prices to other dealers.
You quote Rosanna Hertz, assistant professor of sociology at Wellesley College, who said, "Money is the key to understanding authority in the family."
Whatever the motive, the proliferation of chip types is confusing for the end-user, particularly because there is no agreed way of measuring performance. PC manufacturers will often quote a machine's 'Landmark' speed as an indication of performance.
And stock markets (to quote Knight again) do move in straight lines every so often. Once it becomes obvious to all that a market should be higher, it will move there fast.
You should have picked up on them." The bill would allow the SEC to require more record-keeping and reporting and to improve "transparency" in the government market through immediate trade and quote information.
They love to quote - in their favour - Lord Leverhulme's remark that 'I know that half of my advertising budget is wasted.
City Councilor Richard Chapman likes to quote the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as he fights a recall campaign that began when he successfully sponsored an anti-smoking ordinance.
Non-local companies have to quote prices 10 per cent lower than their Jersey counterparts to gain contracts.
The FT remarked that so long as it takes several years to bring such cases to court, little can be done to prevent defendants rebelling, unless - and I quote - 'society is willing to ride roughshod over their human rights'.
He said both stories quote some of the same sources because there are few sources available on the matter.
A growing number of schools refuse to quote their average score on the grounds that it is misleading, while some academics say that, being only available in English, it is culturally biased.
Hundreds of banks, including other foreign banks, deal in the secondary market, but Morgan is one of 20 authorized by the Bank of Italy to quote bid and offer prices continuously for Italy's government paper.