Recite vs Cite - What's the difference?
recite | cite |
To repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience
To list or enumerate something
To deliver a recitation
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= 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.
(informal) A citation.
As verbs the difference between recite and cite
is that recite is to repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience while cite is to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.As a noun cite is
a citation.recite
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Verb
(recit)cite
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(cit)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.}}
Derived terms
* citationSee also
* attest * quoteNoun
(en noun)- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.