quotation
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Quotation
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a phrase or passage from a book, poem, play, etc, remembered and spoken, esp to illustrate succinctly or support a point or an argument |
| 2. | the act or habit of quoting from books, plays, poems, etc |
| 3. | commerce a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity |
| 4. | an estimate of costs submitted by a contractor to a prospective client; tender |
| 5. | stock exchange registration granted to a company or governmental body, enabling the shares and other securities of the company or body to be officially listed and traded |
| 6. | printing a large block of type metal that is less than type-high and is used to fill up spaces in type pages |
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Word Origin & History
quotation
1456, "numbering," later (1532) "marginal notation," from M.L. quotationem (nom. quotatio), from quotare "to number" (see quote). Meaning "passage quoted" is from 1690.
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Example sentences
Faculty members in various disciplines differ vastly in their expectations concerning citation and quotation.
No need for the quotation marks when you think about it.
No journalist will claim that every quotation he reports is verbatim.
And pay no attention to the publication this quotation is from.
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