Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet QUOTATION

Definition av QUOTATION

1. citat
2. kurs
3. offert, anbud

Exempel på hur man kan använda QUOTATION i en mening

• A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written.
• Zippy's most famous quotation, "Are we having fun yet?", appears in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and became a catchphrase.
• Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan.
• The title "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a direct quotation from the King James Bible (taken from Exodus 2:22).
• In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
• The unusual title of the story, which includes both the quotation marks and dashes shown above, is a quotation from a sentence near the end of the story; the quotation is taken from the middle of the sentence, hence the dashes indicating elided text before and after the title.
• He wrote six books of choral poetry, most of which is now lost; his poetry survives in quotation from other ancient authors and on fragmentary papyri discovered in Egypt.
• However, a quotation from another lost epic in the Trojan cycle, the Aethiopis, names his parents as Agrius of Calydon and Dia, a daughter of King Porthaon.
• Now considered politically incorrect, the borough had a wooden sign posted downtown that read "Once there was Indians all over this place" which had been donated by a resident who insisted on the wording of the sign as having been a quotation from an author.
• The first coal breaker, called "The Greenwood" was built as noted in the quotation, at the site of the first mine at the lower end of the Panther Creek Valley.
• Advocates of this approach sometimes cite a quotation from a dissent by Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co.
• A damaging quotation is a short utterance by a public figure used by opponents as a discrediting tactic.
• Printings of the novel, including the first 1957 edition by William Morrow and Company, New York, contain extracts from Eliot's poem on the title page, under Shute's name, including the above quotation and the concluding lines:.
• Suppose we define the quine of a phrase to be the quotation of the phrase followed by the phrase itself.
• In this quotation, underlining has been added to the words that exemplify the use of the majestic plural.
• The novel's epigraph is a quotation from Purgatorio:

  To course o’er better waters
  now hoists sail the little bark of my wit,
  .

• Herbert Giles and others have used a left (opening) curved single quotation mark for the same purpose; the apostrophe, backtick, and visually similar characters are often seen as well.
• It is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am", or "I am thinking, therefore I exist"), which occurs in Part IV of the work.
• Omne datum optimum (latin for "Every perfect gift", a quotation from the Epistle of James 1:17) was a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent II on 29 March 1139 that endorsed the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Knights Templar), in which the Templar Rule was officially approved, and papal protection given.
• These quotation marks are unpaired (the same character is used as an opener and a closer), which is a hangover from the typewriter technology which was the precursor of the earliest computer input and output devices.

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