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 Translation for 'quotation marks' from English to Russian
NOUN   a quotation mark | quotation marks
кавычки {мн}quotation marks
особые приметы {мн}distinguishing marks
экон.
(коммерческое) предложение {с} [оферта с указанием цены]
quotation
цитата {ж}quotation
цитата
ответить цитатой на цитату
cap a quotation
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Usage Examples English
  • Hence the directional double quotation marks "«" and "»" used for some European languages were included, but not the directional double quotation marks "“" and "”" used for English and some other languages.
  • British English is more tolerant of run-on sentences, called "comma splices" in American English, and American English requires that periods and commas be placed inside closing quotation marks even in cases in which British rules would place them outside.
  • In East Asian punctuation, angle brackets are used as quotation marks.
  • Wade–Giles uses hyphens to separate all syllables within a word (whereas Pīnyīn separates syllables only in specially defined cases, using hyphens or closing (right) single quotation marks as appropriate).
  • In HTML 4, there is a standard set of 252 named "character entities" for characters - some common, some obscure - that are either not found in certain character encodings or are markup sensitive in some contexts (for example angle brackets and quotation marks).

  • The source code contains a string array of itself, which is output twice, once inside quotation marks.
  • In some languages, there is a discourse marker in addition to the verb of saying that functions as verbal quotation marks.
  • The similarity is so strong that the few variations may confuse a native English reader. Quotation marks are particularly variable across European languages.
  • This is known as the "smart quotes" feature; apostrophes and quotation marks that are not automatically altered by computer programs are known as "dumb quotes".
  • A comma-like low quotation mark is also available (shown below; corresponding sets of raised single quotation marks and double-quotation marks are not shown).

  • The molecular analysis of the octopods shows that the suborder Cirrina (Cirromorphida) and the superfamily Argonautoidea are paraphyletic and are broken up; these names are shown in quotation marks and italics on the cladogram.
  • for its question mark and swaps the quotation marks and parentheses (to [...] and [...]); it uses the period (...) for the decimal point, as in print, and the decimal point (...) to mark capitalization.
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