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Citing vs Cited - What's the difference?

citing | cited |

As verbs the difference between citing and cited

is that citing is present participle of lang=en while cited is past tense of cite.

As a noun citing

is citation.

citing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • citation
  • * 2010 , Samuel Totten, Jon E. Pedersen, Teaching and Studying Social Issues
  • Authors frequently do not cite references that are more than three years old because manuscript referees often dismiss or devalue older citings .

    cited

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cite)
  • Anagrams

    * edict ----

    cite

    English

    Verb

    (cit)
  • To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
  • To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  • To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
  • Derived terms

    * citation

    See also

    * attest * quote

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A citation.
  • We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.

    Anagrams

    * * ----