Quote is a hypernym of

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 ...

, as the repetition or copy of a prior statement or thought.

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 are punctuation marks that indicate a quotation. Both ''quotation'' and ''quotation marks'' are sometimes abbreviated as "quote(s)".

Computing

String literal A string literal or anonymous string is a string value in the source code of a computer program. Modern programming languages commonly use a quoted sequence of characters, formally " bracketed delimiters", as in x = "foo", where "foo" is a string ...

s, computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in the source code * Quoting in Lisp, the Lisp programming language's notion of quoting *

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 *

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.

Finance

* Financial quote or

sales quote A sales quote allows a prospective buyer to see the costs that will be involved for desired work. Many businesses provide services that cannot have an upfront price because the costs involved can vary. This can be due to the materials used, which ...

, 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 *

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 acquire ...

, a financial website * Quote notation, representation of certain rational numbers

Media

* '' Quote... Unquote'', panel game on BBC Radio 4. * ''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 2 ...

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Musical quotation Musical quotation is the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition. The quotation may be from the same composer's work (self-referential), or from a different composer's work (appropriation). Sometimes the quotation is done for ...

, the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition

Speech and written text

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 *

s, punctuation marks used in text to indicate a quotation

Computing

Finance

Media

Speech and written text

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