Quotations can be categorized as a noun.
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| quotation - a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | ||
| quotation - the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation" | ||
| quotation - a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity | ||
| quotation - a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" |
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| 1. | noun | If your essay is on the short side, you can always pad it out with a few quotations. | |
| 2. | noun | These are all quotations from the Bible. | |
| 3. | noun | These quotations were effective in sending complex messages to his friends, because, in his day, people could quote from such authors with every expectation of being understood. | |
| 4. | noun | I must know where these quotations originate. | |
| 5. | noun | I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. | |
| 6. | noun | I like to translate quotations. | |
| 7. | noun | I have to recognize the source of your quotations. | |
| 8. | noun | You seem to know this book very well; you use a lot of quotations from it. | |
| 9. | noun | The hermit maintained and bucklered his opinion, by quotations from Malleus Malificarum, Sprengerus, Remigius, and other learned demonologists, that the Evil One, thus seduced to remain behind the appointed hour, would assume her true shape, and, having appeared to her terrified lover as a fiend of hell, would vanish from him in a flash of sulphurous lightning. | |
| 10. | noun | Since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation. | |
| 11. | noun | The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable. | |
| 12. | noun | "Love your neighbour as yourself" is a quotation from the Bible. | |
| 13. | noun | We need a firm quotation by Monday. | |
| 14. | noun | It seems to me better without the quotation marks. | |
| 15. | noun | The quotation marks are superfluous. |
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| If your essay is on the short side, you can always pad it out with a few quotations. | |
| These are all quotations from the Bible. | |
| These quotations were effective in sending complex messages to his friends, because, in his day, people could quote from such authors with every expectation of being understood. | |
| I must know where these quotations originate. | |
| I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. | |
| I like to translate quotations. | |
| I have to recognize the source of your quotations. | |
| You seem to know this book very well; you use a lot of quotations from it. | |
| The hermit maintained and bucklered his opinion, by quotations from Malleus Malificarum, Sprengerus, Remigius, and other learned demonologists, that the Evil One, thus seduced to remain behind the appointed hour, would assume her true shape, and, having appeared to her terrified lover as a fiend of hell, would vanish from him in a flash of sulphurous lightning. | |
| Since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation. |
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| The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable. | |
| "Love your neighbour as yourself" is a quotation from the Bible. | |
| We need a firm quotation by Monday. | |
| It seems to me better without the quotation marks. | |
| The quotation marks are superfluous. | |