# quoting

Pronunciation: say "KWOHT-ing" US /ˈkʰwoʊtɪŋ/, UK /ˈk(ʰ)wəʊtɪŋ/, AUS /ˈkʰwɐʉtɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of quote. — present participle and gerund of quote
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of quote. Use this form for an action happening now or as a name for the action itself.
   - _The lawyer was quoting an earlier ruling to support her argument._
   - _Quoting the original text accurately matters a great deal in scholarly work._

## Noun

2. A statement repeated word for word from a source; a quote.
   - Simple: A piece of text or speech that you repeat word for word from someone else.
   - _The article opened with a quoting from the president's recent address._
   - _Each chapter begins with a quoting drawn from medieval correspondence._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/quoting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).