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quotation 音標拼音: [kwot'eʃən] n. 引用,引證,引文,語錄;行情,報價,報價單 引用,引証,引文,語錄;行情,報價,報價單 quotation引言; 報價; 詢價; 引證; 證卷; 引用( 句 ) quotation引用 報價 quotation n 1: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; " the student' s essay failed to list several important citations"; " the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; " the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" [ synonym: { citation}, { cite}, { acknowledgment}, { credit}, { reference}, { mention}, { quotation}] 2: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited [ synonym: { quotation}, { quote}, { citation}] 3: a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity 4: the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; " since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation" Quotation \ Quo* ta" tion\ ( kw[- o]* t[= a]" sh[ u^] n), n. [ From { Quote}.] 1. The act of quoting or citing. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Com.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also, the price named. 4. Quota; share. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Print.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Quotation marks} ( Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words. [ 1913 Webster] 94 Moby Thesaurus words for " quotation": allusion, asking price, bargain price, bearish prices, bid, bid price, book value, bullish prices, call price, case, cash price, charge, citation, closing price, controlled price, cost, cross reference, current price, current quotation, cut price, decline, demonstration, doubling, duplication, echo, example, excerpt, exemplification, extract, face value, fixed price, flash price, flat rate, flurry, flutter, going price, high, illustration, imitation, instance, issue par, issue price, item, list price, low, market price, market value, neat price, net, nominal value, offering price, opening price, package price, par, par value, parity, particular, passage, piece price, plagiarism, price, price list, prices current, put price, quote, quoted price, rally, rate, reappearance, rebirth, recommended price, recurrence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, reference, regurgitation, reincarnation, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition, reproduction, resumption, return, selection, selling price, settling price, stated value, stock market quotations, swings, trade price, unit price, value, wholesale priceQUOTATION, rights. The transcript of a part of a book or writing from a book or paper into another. 2. If the quotation is fair, and not so extensive as to extract the whole value or the most valuable part of an author, it will not be a violation of the copyright. It is mostly difficult to define what is a fair quotation. When the quotation is unfair, an injunction will lie to restrain the publication. See 17 Ves. 424; 1 Bell' s Com. 121, 5th ed. 3. " That part of a work of one author found in another," observed Lord Ellenborough, " is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another' s labors for the promotion of science, and the benefit of the public." 5 Esp. N. P. C. 170; 1 Campb. 94. See Curt. on Copyr. 242; 3 Myl. & Cr. 737, 738; 17 Ves. 422; 1 Campb. 94; 2 Story, R. 100; 2 Beav. 6, 7; Abridgment; Copyright.
QUOTATION, practice. The allegation of some authority or case, or passage of some law, in support of a position which it is desired to establish. 2. Quotations when properly made, assist the reader, but when misplaced, they are inconvenient. As to the manner of quoting or citing authorities, see Abbreviations; Citations. |
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