direct quote
Word-for-word citation
A direct quote is someone's exact words, reproduced verbatim rather than paraphrased.
In writing, direct quotes appear in quotation marks: She said, "I'll be there by noon".
In finance, a direct quote expresses how much domestic currency buys one unit of foreign currency.
Journalists and scholars use direct quotes to preserve a speaker's precise language.
- verbatimIn identical wording
- citationMention of a source
- excerptPortion taken from larger work
- transcriptVerbatim written account
- attributedAssigned to a source
spoken · testimony · court transcript · interview · source · journalist · newspaper · news article · blockquote · punctuation · marks · reference · literal · word-for-word · sound bite · on the record · off the record · statement
direct quoteparaphrase
Restatement in new words
summary · indirect speech · reported speech · rewording · gloss
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