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Quote vs Passage - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between quote and passage

is that quote is to repeat someone’s exact words while passage is to pass a pathogen through a host or medium.

As nouns the difference between quote and passage

is that quote is a quotation, statement attributed to someone else while passage is a paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

quote

English

Verb

  • To repeat someone’s exact words.
  • To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
  • (Commerce) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
  • To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
  • (archaic) To observe, to take account of.
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  • Synonyms

    * (repeat words) cite

    Antonyms

    * end quote * unquote

    Derived terms

    * quotable * quote unquote * misquote

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quotation, statement attributed to someone else.
  • A quotation mark.
  • A summary of work to be done with a set price.
  • ''After going over the hefty quotes , the board decided it was cheaper to have the project executed by its own staff.

    Usage notes

    Until the late 19th century, quote'' was exclusively used as a verb. Since then, it has been used as a shortened form of either quotation or quotation mark; see , above. This use as a noun is well-understood and widely used, although it is often rejected in formal and academic contexts.Rosenheim, Edward W.; Ann Batko. (2004) ''When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English . Career Press, Franklin Lakes, NJ. p. 207 ISBN 1-56414-722-3

    Derived terms

    * pull-quote

    See also

    * attest * MSRP * invoice

    Anagrams

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    References

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    passage

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
  • passage of scripture
    She struggled to play the difficult passages .
  • Part of a path or journey.
  • He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
  • The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
  • The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
  • (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  • A passageway or corridor.
  • (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  • (euphemistic) The vagina.
  • * 1986 , Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time , New American Library, ISBN 9780451821416, page 463:
  • With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust,
  • * 1987 , Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking , Jaico Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-7224-162-9, page 53:
  • This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage .
  • * 2009 , Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor , Medallion Press, ISBN 9781933836515, page 249:
  • At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
  • The act of passing
  • * 1886 , Pacific medical journal Volume 29
  • He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
    Derived terms
    * rite of passage * passagemaker * passage maker

    Verb

    (passag)
  • (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium
  • He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
    After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
  • (rare) To make a , especially by sea; to cross
  • They passaged to America in 1902.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
  • Verb

    (passag)
  • (dressage) To execute a passage movement
  • * {{quote-book, 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope citation
  • , passage=After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash

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