Synonyms:
citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation
Meaning: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
Synonyms:
quotation, quote, citation
Meaning: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Usage examples
"What quotation?"
Quotation marks cover a multitude of plagiarists.
A story of de Lenz that lends itself to quotation is about this piece:
We say Paul gives not a single quotation to prove that he knew of a teaching Jesus.
Jastrow contrasts the Babylonian poem with the following quotation from Ecclesiastes:--
When we arrived at Dover, New Jersey, we got a New York newspaper, and I called his attention to the quotation of that day on General Electric.
But to return to our quotation: "If Richard tried to take up the bundle, his fingers fell away like the legs of the brittle crab and the bundle collapsed, incalculable and helpless.
However, the culprit was much impressed with a sense of shortcoming as to the obligations he had undertaken; so the result was as satisfactory as if the quotation had been from the right service.
On one occasion, when the child's conduct fell just short of warranting such extreme measures, his mother, as they were on the point of entering church, concluded a homily by a quotation which showed a certain haziness of memory concerning the marriage and baptismal services: "No, little boy, if this conduct continues, I shall think that you neither love, honor, nor obey me!"