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 Translation for 'Quotation' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a quotation | quotations
SYNO acknowledgment | citation | cite | ...
ívitnun {kv}quotation
viðsk.
verðtilboð {hv}
price quotation
gæsalappir {kv.ft} [tilvitnunarmerki]quotation marks
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Usage Examples English
  • "The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks" is a blog about the misuse of English quotation marks.
  • An example is rebalancing unclosed quotation marks or even adding quotation marks to unquoted parameters on parameters to CSS font-family.
  • Although the standard notation for mentioning a term in philosophy and logic is to put the term in quotation marks, issues arise when the mention is itself of a mention.
  • In languages that allow for nested quotes and use quotation mark punctuation to indicate direct speech, hierarchical quotation sublevels are usually punctuated by alternating between primary quotation marks and secondary quotation marks.
  • In typewriter keyboards, the curved quotation marks were not implemented.

  • Quasi-quotation is sometimes denoted using the symbols ⌜ and ⌝ (unicode U+231C, U+231D), or double square brackets, ⟦ ⟧ ("Oxford brackets"), instead of ordinary quotation marks.
  • The quotation from Hamlet is also used in Dorothy L. Sayers' novel "Murder Must Advertise", in which an advertising agency's client turns down an advertisement using the quotation as a caption.
  • have at least two uses in mathematical logic: either as quasi-quotation, a generalization of quotation marks, or to denote the Gödel number of the enclosed expression.
  • In impromptu speaking, the competitor receives a quotation to use as the topic of their speech.
  • "Quote" is a clipped form of quotation or quotation mark.

  • " is the symbol for double quotation mark, a punctuation mark used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.
  • ” In such cases, the leading quotation mark is outdented 100% into the margin or paragraph indent, so that subsequent lines of text align with the first character in the quotation.
  • The unusual title of the story, which includes both the quotation marks and dashes shown above, is a quotation from a sentence near the end of the story; the quotation is taken from the middle of the sentence, hence the dashes indicating elided text before and after the title.
  • 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).
  • Quotation marks [...] [...] are used in pairs to set off quotation, with two levels for distinguishing nested quotations: single and double.

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