What is the difference between citation and quotation?
citation | quotation |
An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words.
An entry in a list of source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
The passage or words quoted; quotation.
Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
Quotation is a synonym of citation.
As nouns the difference between citation and quotation
is that citation is an official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice while quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.citation
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(wikipedia citation)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (passage of words) quotation * (passage of words) quotequotation
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(wikipedia quotation)Noun
(en noun)- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.