Tra từ quote - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

▪ I. quote AW [quote quotes quoted quoting] verb, noun BrE [kwəʊt] NAmE [kwoʊt]
verb

REPEAT EXACT WORDS
1. transitive, intransitive to repeat the exact words that another person has said or written
•~ sth (from sb/sth) He quoted a passage from the minister's speech.
•to quote Shakespeare
• Quote this reference number in all correspondence.
•The figures quoted in this article refer only to Britain.
•~ (sb) (as doing sth) The President was quoted in the press as saying that he disagreed with the decision.
•‘It will all be gone tomorrow.’ ‘ Can I quote you on that? ’
•Don't quote me on this (= this is not an official statement), but I think he is going to resign.
•She said, and I quote, ‘Life is meaningless without love.’
•+ speech ‘The man who is tired of London is tired of life,’ he quoted.
see also ↑misquote

GIVE EXAMPLE
2. transitive ~ (sb) sth to mention an example of sth to support what you are saying
• Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?

GIVE PRICE
3. transitive, intransitive ~ (sb) (sth) (for sth/for doing sth) to tell a customer how much money you will charge them for a job, service or product
• They quoted us £300 for installing a shower unit.
4. transitive ~ sth (at sth) (finance)to give a market price for shares, gold or foreign money
•Yesterday the pound was quoted at $1.8285, unchanged from Monday.
5. transitive ~ sth (finance)to give the prices for a business company's shares on a ↑stock exchange
•Several football clubs are now quoted on the Stock Exchange.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
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.).

Thesaurus:
quote verb T, I
•He quoted a passage from the president's speech.
repeat • • recite • • say • |formal cite •
quote/repeat/recite/cite a passage
quote/repeat/recite/say a line
quote/recite (a) poem/speech/poetry

Synonyms:
mention
refer to sb/sth • speak • cite • quote
These words all mean to write or speak about sb/sth, often in order to give an example or prove sth.
mention • to write or speak about sth/sb, especially without giving much information: ▪ Nobody mentioned anything to me about it.
refer to sb/sth • (rather formal) to mention or speak about sb/sth: ▪ I promised not to refer to the matter again.
speak • to mention or describe sb/sth: ▪ Witnesses ▪ spoke of ▪ a great ball of flame.
cite • (formal) to mention sth as a reason or an example, or in order to support what you are saying: ▪ He cited his heavy workload as the reason for his breakdown.
quote • to mention an example of sth to support what you are saying: ▪ Can you quote me an instance of when this happened?
cite or quote?
You can cite reasons or examples, but you can only quote examples: He quoted his heavy workload as the reason for his breakdown. Cite is a more formal word than quote and is often used in more formal situations, for example in descriptions of legal cases.
to mention/refer to/speak of/cite/quote sb/sth as sb/sth
to mention/refer to/cite/quote a(n) example/instance/case of sth
frequently/often mentioned/referred to/spoken of/cited/quoted
the example mentioned/referred to/cited/quoted above/earlier/previously

Example Bank:
•Don't quote me on this but I think the figure is in excess of £2 billion.
•He quoted from Shakespeare.
•She is wrongly quoted as saying ‘Play it again, Sam.’
•She quotes extensively from the author's diaries.
•The new text of Article 92, quoted above, gives member states more discretion on this issue.
•The passage is quoted in full.
•They quoted from the Bible.
•an example that is often quoted as evidence of mismanagement
•publicly quoted companies
•quoting from Shakespeare/‘Hamlet’
•the most widely quoted and influential study in this field
•‘All's fair in love and war,’ he quoted.
•‘It will all be gone tomorrow.’ ‘Can I quote you on that?’
•Don't quote me on this, but I think she is going to resign.
•He quoted a passage from the prime minister's speech.
•He quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire.
•They said they were quoting from a recent report.

noun (rather informal)

EXACT WORDS
1. = ↑quotation (¹)
•The essay was full of quotes.

PRICE
2. = ↑quotation (³)
•Their quote for the job was way too high.

PUNCTUATION
3. quotesplural = ↑quotation marks
•If you take text from other sources, place it in quotes.

Word Origin:
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.).

Example Bank:
•If you take text from other sources, place it in quotes.
•The quote of the week comes from Mae West.
•a direct quote from this morning's paper
•a quote for the hire of the equipment
•a quote from Albert Einstein
•quotes taken from various lifestyle magazines
•The article included quotes from detectives who worked on the case.
•Theirs was the lowest quote, so we went with them.
•This quote comes from a poem by Robert Browning

▪ II. ˈquote (… ˈunquote) idiom
(informal)used to show the beginning (and end) of a word, phrase, etc. that has been said or written by sb else
•It was quote, ‘the hardest decision of my life’, unquote, and one that he lived to regret.
Main entry: ↑quote_idiom