(v. t.) To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
(v. t.) To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
(v. t.) To name the current price of.
(v. t.) To notice; to observe; to examine.
(v. t.) To set down, as in writing.
(n.) A note upon an author.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(2) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
(3) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(4) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
(5) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(6) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(7) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(8) Kerry presented Lavrov with a dossier of quotes from Russian media that “do not help improve Russian-American relations”, according to Russian television.
(9) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(10) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
(11) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
(12) However, LaBoeuf's subsequent apologies were themselves discovered to have been copied from other sources ; his quoting of Cantona's lines are entirely true to form.
(13) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
(14) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(15) A 3 week immunization schedule is suggested where BCG and C. parvum are used as immunotherapeutic agents, in the doses quoted.
(16) A member of the P2PFA ThinCats ThinCats logo Date launched January 2011 Quoted returns Lenders can earn "between 6% and 13%".
(17) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(18) These concentrations were less than the routinely used half-saturated solutions and different from the sometimes quoted one-third-saturated solutions.
(19) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
(20) "Strong voices from across the Republican spectrum agree with the fundamental point – the nation, and the GOP, need to act on immigration.” • This article was amended on 31 January 2014 to correct the attribution of a quote.
Quotient
Definition:
(n.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.
(n.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(2) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(3) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
(4) Median developmental quotient (Griffiths scales) was 100 in the treated group and 95 in the control group (P = 0.053).
(5) Normal scores in psychomotor tests and normal intelligence quotients (I.Q.)
(6) Specific formulas of TPN for COPD patients, using lipids for calories and limiting glucose, lower the respiratory quotient.
(7) Intelligence quotients (IQs) improved in all seven children tested (mean improvement of 17.7%, p less than 0.01) and correlated significantly with reductions in CSF protein concentration (r = -0.85, p = 0.003).
(8) The induction of irreversible renal damage by 6 weeks of obstruction was associated with (i) a nearly total absence of alpha-ketoglutarate utilization; (ii) a markedly decreased amount of oxygen utilization and carbon dioxide production; (iii) a normal respiratory quotient; and (iv) a nearly total absence of citrate production.
(9) Physical growth and psychoeducational and school performance test scores were similar for the three bronchopulmonary dysplasia study groups with the exception of lower intelligence quotient for those receiving supplemental oxygen for the longest time.
(10) Following recovery, the receptivity expressed as the lordosis quotient was controlled in the presence of a sexually active male.
(11) Carbohydrate loading in excess of the patient's calorie need, as indicated by the respiratory quotient (RQ) greater than 1.0, results in fat synthesis and other energy-costing processes.
(12) The intelligence quotients showed declining trends with time.
(13) Moreover, resting metabolic rate and respiratory quotient were also identical in android and gynoid obese women, indicating that there was no intergroup difference in the absolute level of lipid oxidation.
(14) Ultrasonographic and scintigraphic measurements of the spleen, platelet counts, transfusion quotient and 51 Cr-labelled red cell survival were used to evaluate the effects of these two methods.
(15) is not to be considered as a disease but rather as a psychic handicap in the domains of the intellect, action and affect, which psychosocial expression is determined by the importance of the disorder, the environment, the intelligence quotient, the tolerance of the relative and peers, and the personal history.
(16) O2 consumption, CO2 production, respiratory quotient, minute ventilation, and PaCO2 were the same for the three protein regimens.
(17) No significant relation between the treatment group and Mose rating (p greater than 0.05), epiphyseal quotient (p greater than 0.05), or healing rate (p greater than 0.05) was found.
(18) Resistances of coronary arteries, microvessels, and veins were calculated from the quotients of the pressure gradient across each vascular compartment and myocardial perfusion (radioactive microspheres).
(19) Plasma levels of total, free and acylcarnitine, as well as oxygen consumption and respiratory quotient were determined in premature infants maintained at neutral temperature.
(20) Exchange of gas was markedly restricted under aggressive respiration (FiO2 = 1.0, PEEP = 10 mmHg, breathing time quotient = 0.5, respiratory minute volume = 16 litres; gas exchange values: PaO2 = 67 mmHg, PaCO2 = 45 mmHg, PA-aO2 = 461 mmHg).