quotations
Words worth repeating
Quotations are passages or remarks repeated from another source, typically with attribution: The essay opened with a quotation from Shakespeare.
In commerce, a quotation is a stated price for goods or services: We got quotations from three contractors.
On financial markets, quotations are current prices for securities or commodities.
The word often shortens to quotes in all these senses.
Directing attention elsewhere
- sourcePoint of origin
- footnoteCitation at page bottom
- bibliographyList of cited works
- attributionAssigning origin or cause
endnote · annotation · excerpt · paraphrase · citing · scholarship · plagiarism · publication
Portion taken from larger work
- passageSegment of text
- soundbiteBrief broadcast excerpt
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- proclamationFormal public announcement
statement · remark · utterance · recitation · verbatim · misattributed · out-of-context · pulled
Traditional saying expressing truth
- aphorismTerse general truth
- maximBrief moral principle
- adageTraditional pithy truth
- sayingShort, wise expression
epigram · motto · mantra · axiom · dictum · truism · platitude · inspirational
Strokes connecting two points
- scriptWritten words for performance
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
playwright · repertoire · exchange · memorable · iconic · movie · film · television
reference
Directing attention elsewhere
- sourcePoint of origin
- footnoteCitation at page bottom
- bibliographyList of cited works
attribution · endnote · annotation · excerpt · paraphrase · citing · scholarship · plagiarism · publication · academic
excerpt
Portion taken from larger work
proclamation · statement · remark · utterance · recitation · verbatim · misattributed · out-of-context · pulled · cherry-picked
proverb
Traditional saying expressing truth
saying · epigram · motto · mantra · axiom · dictum · truism · platitude · inspirational · motivational
lines
Strokes connecting two points
- scriptWritten words for performance
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
soliloquy · playwright · repertoire · exchange · memorable · iconic · movie · film · television · catchphrase
price
Monetary value assigned
rate · pricing · valuation · appraisal · tender · proposal · invoice · cost · fee · premium
- Style GuideAP style, MLA style, house style, editorial guidelines, formatting
- collected writingsanthology, compilations, compilation, collections, excerpts
- text bitsexcerpts, extracts, fragments, snippets, passages
- B2B CommerceB2B, suppliers, vendors, buyers, procurement
- copyrightcopyright, copyright law, copyright act, copyright office, copyright notice
- Mark TwainSamuel Clemens, pen name, pseudonym, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
quotationsoriginal compositions
Freshly created musical works
improvisation · ad-libbing · ad-libs · free expression · novel ideas
quotationsparaphrases
Restates using different words
paraphrasing · summaries · restatements · interpretations · approximations
quotationssilence
Total lack of sound
refusals · no comment · withholdings · omissions · redactions
- quotation marksPunctuation framing cited text
- direct quotationExact reproduction of speech