quote

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To repeat or copy (words from a source such as a book), usually with acknowledgment of the source.
• intransitive verb To repeat or copy the words of (a person or a book or other source).
• intransitive verb To cite or refer to for illustration or proof.
• intransitive verb To repeat a brief passage or excerpt from.
• intransitive verb To state (a price) for securities, goods, or services.
• intransitive verb To give a quotation, as from a book.
• noun A quotation.
• noun A quotation mark.
• noun Used by a speaker to indicate the beginning of a direct quotation.
• noun A dictum; a saying.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To note down; set down in writing; hence, in general, to note; mark; observe.
• To adduce from some author or speaker; cite, as a passage from some author or a saying of some speaker; name, repeat, or adduce as the utterance of some other person, or by way of authority or illustration; also, to cite the words of: as, to quote a passage from Homer; to quote Shakspere or one of his plays; to quote chapter and verse.
• In writing or printing, to inclose within quotation-marks; distinguish as a quotation or as quoted matter by marking: as, the dialogue in old books is not quoted.
• In com., to name, as the price of stocks, produce, etc.; name the current price of.
• To cite the words of another; make a quotation.
• noun A note upon an author.
• noun A quotation, or the marking of a quotation.
• noun A quotation-mark: usually in the plural.
• noun A quotient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration.
• transitive verb To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion.
• transitive verb (Com.) To name the current price of.
• transitive verb obsolete To notice; to observe; to examine.
• transitive verb obsolete To set down, as in writing.
• noun obsolete A note upon an author.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To refer to (part of) a speech that has been made by someone else.
• verb transitive To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
• verb Commerce (transitive) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
• verb intransitive To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
• verb archaic To observe, to take account of.
• noun A quotation, statement attributed to someone else.
• noun A quotation mark.
• noun A summary of work to be done with a set price.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
• noun a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
• verb name the price of
• verb repeat a passage from
• verb refer to for illustration or proof
• verb put quote marks around