Quotable

Definition

quote / kwǝƱt / v ၁။ ~ (sth) (from sb/sth) ကိုးကားသည္။ to quote Keats/ the Bible ❍ Please quote your account number in all correspondence. ❍ The book provides, to quote the author, ‘food for the imagination’. ❍ I think he's going to resign, but please don't quote me on that (ie because I am not sure if it is true). ❍ She quoted from a government document. ❍ He's always quoting statistics at me. ❍ The minister has been quoted as saying she disagrees with the decision. ❍ She said, and I quote, ‘Life is meaningless without love’. See also MISQUOTE ၂။ ကိုးကားသည္။ Can you quote me an example of what you mean? ၃။ ေဈးဆိုသည္။ ေဈးေခၚသည္။ They quoted us £200 for installing a new shower unit. Compare ESTIMATE v ၄။ ~ sth (at sth) ( finance ) (အစုရွယ္ယာစသည္) ေဈးေပါက္သည္။ ordinary shares quoted on the stock exchange (at 55p a share). n ( infml ) ၁။ [C] = QUOTATION ၁,၃ ၂။ quotes [pl] = QUOTATION MARKS: His words are in quotes. ❏ quotable adj အကိုးအကားျပဳႏိုင္ေသာ။ အကိုးအကား ျပဳထိုက္ေသာ။ ( infml ) a speech full of quotable quotes. ❏ quote (… unquote) [ IDM ] (ကိုးကားခ်က္မွ်သာ ျဖစ္ ေၾကာင္း၊ မိမိ သေဘာထားမဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ျပသည့္အေနျဖင့္) အကိုးအစ…အဆံုးဟု အဆိုရိွေသာ။ This quote startlingly original novel unquote is both boring and badly written.

Examples

1. Can I quote you on that (=repeat exactly what you have said about something)?
2. [quote from] : She claimed to be quoting from an official report.
3. [quote someone as saying something] : The minister was quoted as saying that he didn’t care about jobs.
4. He quoted the example of a 40-year-old man who has been waiting nearly two years for an operation.
5. [quote for] : How much did they quote for the job?
6. [quote someone something] : They quoted us £500 to replace the whole window.