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# quote

«quote» in Mova's school dictionary: **to repeat the exact words someone else said or wrote** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (quote, quotes, quoted, quoting); noun (a quote, quotes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To quote is to repeat the exact words someone else said or wrote. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#m1)

2) A quote is the exact words repeated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#m2)

3) To quote a price is to say how much something will cost; a quote is that price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#m3)

4) Quotes (informal) are quotation marks « " " ». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#m4)

5) «Quote, unquote» is said to show you are repeating someone's words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils quote from a text to support answers and use quotation marks. In everyday life a builder gives a quote for a job. In maths a quote is a price to compare. Phrases: «quote from», «give a quote», «in quotes».

### examples

- Quote a line from the poem to back up your answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x1)
- Her favourite quote is «Be kind». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x2)
- The plumber gave us a quote of eighty pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x3)
- Put the words in quotes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x4)
- Can I quote you on that? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x5)
- Use evidence and quote the text. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x6)
- Mum got three quotes and chose the cheapest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x7)
- «Don't quote me, but I think it's tomorrow.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/#x8)

### note

Formal noun: quotation (quote is informal). In maths: to compare quotes, find the cheapest or the difference. Using a quote without naming the source can be plagiarism.

### In the corpora

- [A quote stuck on a picture of a famous face is very easy to fake; look for where the person really said it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/13/)
- [When a bot pretends to be a pirate or a footballer, it is still pretending; quotes it invents were never really said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/13/)
- [Some websites use AI to make fake news quickly to get clicks, sometimes with made-up quotes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/15/)
- [Chatbots can produce made-up cases, books or quotes that sound real; even experts must check them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/6/)
- [Newspaper articles include quotes, which are people's exact words in inverted commas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quote» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quote/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.