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{ "term": "quote", "partOfSpeech": "verb", "academic": true, "ox3000": true, "cefr": "b1", "verbForms": { "presentSimple": { "iYouWeThey": "quote", "heSheIt": "quotes" }, "pastSimple": "quoted", "pastParticiple": "quoted", "ingForm": "quoting" }, "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "to repeat the exact words that another person has said or written", "sensetop": "quote somethingquote something from somethingquote from somethingquote somebody/something in somethingquote somebodyquote somebody as doing somethingquote somebody on somethingquote + speech", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "to quote Shakespeare", "contextForm": "quote something" }, { "text": "He quoted a passage from the minister's speech.", "contextForm": "quote something from something" }, { "text": "They quoted from the Bible.", "contextForm": "quote from something" }, { "text": "Quote this reference number in all correspondence.", "contextForm": "quote somebody/something in something" }, { "text": "He was widely quoted in the American media." }, { "text": "The figures quoted in this article refer only to Britain." }, { "text": "Jude is one of three people **quoted in the story**." }, { "text": "to **quote an expert/an official/a source**", "contextForm": "quote somebody" }, { "text": "The minister claimed he had been selectively quoted." }, { "text": "The President was **quoted** in the press **as saying** that he disagreed with the decision.", "contextForm": "quote somebody as doing something" }, { "text": "She said, and I quote, ‘Life is meaningless without love.’" }, { "text": "‘It will all be gone tomorrow.’ ‘**Can I quote you on that?**’", "contextForm": "quote somebody on something" }, { "text": "**Don't quote me on this** *(= this is not an official statement)*, but I think he is going to resign." }, { "text": "‘The man who is tired of London is tired of life,’ he quoted.", "contextForm": "quote + speech" }, { "text": "She quotes extensively from the author's diaries." }, { "text": "They said they were quoting from a recent report." }, { "text": "The passage is quoted in full." }, { "text": "He is wrongly quoted as saying ‘Play it again, Sam.’" } ], "topics": ["Literature and writing", "Language"], "collocations": { "adverb": ["at length", "extensively", "in full"], "preposition": ["as", "from"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "to mention an example of something to support what you are saying", "sensetop": "quote (somebody) somethingquote something as something", "examples": [ { "text": "Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?", "contextForm": "quote (somebody) something" }, { "text": "an example that is often quoted as evidence of mismanagement", "contextForm": "quote something as something" }, { "text": "He quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire." }, { "text": "the most widely quoted and influential study in this field" } ], "collocations": { "adverb": ["frequently", "often"], "preposition": ["as", "on"], "phrases": ["widely quoted"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "to tell a customer how much money you will charge them for a job, service or product", "sensetop": "quote somethingquote something for (doing) somethingquote somebody somethingquote somebody something for (doing) something", "examples": [ { "text": "The agent is quoting a guide price of €250 000.", "contextForm": "quote something" }, { "text": "The price they quoted for the kitchen was too high.", "contextForm": "quote something for (doing) something" }, { "text": "A garage quoted him £80.", "contextForm": "quote somebody something" }, { "text": "They quoted us £300 for installing a shower unit.", "contextForm": "quote somebody something for (doing) something" } ] }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "to give a market price for shares, gold or foreign money", "sensetop": "quote something (at something)", "labels": "(finance)", "cefr": "c1", "examples": [ { "text": "Yesterday the pound was quoted at $1.8285, unchanged from Monday." } ], "topics": ["Money"] }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "to give the prices for a business company’s shares on a stock exchange", "sensetop": "quote something", "labels": "(finance)", "cefr": "c1", "examples": [ { "text": "Several football clubs are now quoted on the Stock Exchange." }, { "text": "publicly quoted companies" } ], "topics": ["Money"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to show the beginning (and end) of a word, phrase, etc. that has been said or written by somebody else", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "It was quote, ‘the hardest decision of my life’, unquote, and one that he lived to regret." }, { "text": "now that the, quote, unquote, ‘real story’ has begun" } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/kwəʊt/", "audio": "qu/quote/quote__gb_2.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kwəʊts/", "audio": "qu/quote/quotes__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪd/", "audio": "qu/quote/quoted__gb_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪŋ/", "audio": "qu/quote/quoting__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/kwəʊt/", "audio": "qu/quote/quote__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/kwəʊts/", "audio": "qu/quote/quotes__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪd/", "audio": "qu/quote/quoted__us_1.mp3" }, { "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtɪŋ/", "audio": "qu/quote/quoting__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from medieval Latin quotare, from quot ‘how many’, or from medieval Latin quota. The original sense was ‘mark a book with numbers, or with marginal references’, later ‘give a reference by page or chapter’, hence ‘cite a text or person’ (late 16th cent.)." }