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# quotation

noun (a quotation, quotations)

«quotation» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Words copied exactly from a book, speech or person, usually shown with quotation marks: "To be or not to be" is a famous quotation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#m1)
2. A price that a builder or company says a job will cost; a quote. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#m2)
3. «Quotation marks» are the signs ' ' or " " put around spoken or copied words. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#m3)

### In the lessons

In English lessons pupils use quotation marks for speech and use quotations from texts as evidence. In maths and everyday life: «The quotation for painting the fence is $240» — compare quotations to find the cheapest. Phrases: «quotation marks», «a famous quotation», «get a quotation», «in quotation marks».

### Examples

- Put quotation marks around the words the character says. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x1)
- Find a quotation from the poem to support your answer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x2)
- The builder gave us a quotation of £500. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x3)
- Which of three quotations, $120, $95 or $110, is the cheapest? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x4)
- That's a famous quotation from Shakespeare. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x5)
- Write the title in quotation marks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x6)
- Mum got two quotations for fixing the roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x7)
- In giving summaries, also, I have kept closely to the text, and always translated literally the passages marked as quotations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/#x8)

### Note

Countable: quotations. Informal short form: quote (noun) — «get a quote». Verb: quote. In the UK, 'single' marks are common; in the US, "double" marks. A quotation must copy the words exactly.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Commentators of Sefer Yetzirah often point to a verse from the Bible as the source of a phrase in the book, as with the "running and returning" of the living creatures in Ezekiel. In the primary lessons: In English lessons pupils use quotation marks for speech and use quotations from texts as evidence. In maths and everyday life: «The quotation for painting the fence is $240» — compare quotations to find the cheapest. Phrases: «quotation marks», «a famous quotation», «get a quotation», «in quotation marks».

### Examples

- ThetextgivesonlyRTzUAV ShUB— "currendo et redeundo," but the commentators have generally considered this to be a quotation from Ezekiel i. 14, referred to H ChIVT, the living creatures, kerubic forms. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quotation/#x1)
- All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quotation/#x2)

### Note

Countable: quotations. Informal short form: quote (noun) — «get a quote». Verb: quote. In the UK, 'single' marks are common; in the US, "double" marks. A quotation must copy the words exactly.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «quotation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quotation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«quotation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/quotation.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «quotation» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/Q/quotation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«quotation» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/quotation.html) on Mova free.