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| Main Entry: |
quotation/quote
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition of something spoken or written by someone |
| Synonyms: | citation, citing, cutting, excerpt, extract, passage, quote, recitation, reference, saying, selection |
| Main Entry: | quotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | citation |
| Synonyms: | estimate, excerpt, offer, passage, price, quote, reference, selection |
| Notes: | one should use quote exclusively as a verb and use quotation as a noun |
| Main Entry: | allusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect reference; hint |
| Synonyms: | casual remark, charge, citation, connotation, denotation, figure of speech, implication, imputation, incidental mention, indication, inference, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, mention, play on words, quotation, remark, statement, suggestion |
| Notes: | allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion |
| Antonyms: | reality |
Example Sentences
- Certain types of quotation marks, apostrophes and foreign accents are among the characters that may be rendered incorrectly.
- Faculty members in various disciplines differ vastly in their expectations concerning citation and quotation.
- Narrative, description and quotation illustrate a universal tendency to overfish and destroy.
| Main Entry: | citation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excerpt |
| Synonyms: | example, illustration, mention, passage, quotation, quote, quoting, reference, saying, source |
| Main Entry: | example |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instance, model |
| Synonyms: | archetype, case, case history, case in point, citation, copy, excuse, exemplar, exemplification, for instance, ideal, illustration, kind of thing, lesson, object, original, paradigm, paragon, part, pattern, precedent, prototype, quotation, representation, sample, sampling, specimen, standard, stereotype, symbol |
| Main Entry: | excerpt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | citation; something taken from a whole |
| Synonyms: | extract, fragment, notation, note, part, passage, pericope, piece, portion, quotation, quote, saying, section, selection |
| Antonyms: | insert, whole |
| Main Entry: | extract |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something condensed from whole |
| Synonyms: | abstract, citation, clipping, concentrate, cutting, decoction, distillate, distillation, elicitation, essence, excerpt, infusion, juice*, passage, quotation, selection |
| Antonyms: | insertion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | numeral; numeric value |
| Synonyms: | amount, character, chiffer, cipher, cost, digit, integer, number, price, quotation, rate, sum, symbol, terms, total, worth |
| Antonyms: | letter |
| Main Entry: | passage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excerpt from document |
| Synonyms: | clause, extract, paragraph, piece, portion, quotation, reading, section, sentence, text, transition, verse |
| Antonyms: | whole |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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