"Quote" is a clipped form of quotation or
quotation mark
Quotation marks (also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an ...
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Computing
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String literals, computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in the source code
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Quoting in Lisp, the Lisp programming language's notion of quoting
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Quoted-printable
Quoted-Printable, or QP encoding, is a binary-to-text encoding system using printable ASCII characters (alphanumeric and the equals sign =) to transmit 8-bit data over a 7-bit data path or, generally, over a medium which is not 8-bit clean. Hist ...
, encoding method for data transmission
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Usenet quoting
When Usenet and e-mail users respond to a message, they often want to include some context for the discussion. This is often accomplished by quoting a portion of the original message using Usenet conventions. In essence the convention is to communi ...
, the conventions used by Usenet and e-mail users when quoting a portion of the original message in a response message.
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Mention (blogging)
A mention (also known as @replies or tagging) is a means by which a blog post references or links to a user's profile. This may be done as a matter of getting the attention of (or drawing attention to) another user of a social networking or blogg ...
, a means by which a blog post references or links to a user's profile
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Posting style, quoting the original message when a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet
Finance
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Financial quote or
sales quote, the commercial statement detailing a set of products and services to be purchased in a single transaction by one party from another for a defined price
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Quote.com
Quote.com is an online marketplace for insurance. It was founded in 1993. It has been owned by Dan Wesley since 2013.
History
In 1997, the company was selected to provide financial market data to ClariNet Communications.
In 1999, Lycos acquired ...
, a financial website
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Quote notation, representation of certain rational numbers
Media
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Quote... Unquote'', panel game on BBC Radio 4.
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''Quote'' (magazine), a Dutch magazine
* Quote, the protagonist of the 2004 platform game ''
Cave Story
''Cave Story'', originally released as is a 2004 Metroidvania platform-adventure game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed over five years by Japanese independent developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his free time. ''Cave Story'' features 2D ...
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Musical quotation, the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition
Places
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Quote, Missouri, a ghost town
Speech and written text
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Quotation
A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by ...
, the repetition of someone else's statement, beliefs or thoughts
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Quotation mark
Quotation marks (also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an ...
s, punctuation marks used in text to indicate a quotation
See also
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Quotation (disambiguation)
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