{
  "id": "quote.writing",
  "term": "quote",
  "sense": "writing",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a text that repeats content from a source",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "text.written",
      "repeats.action",
      "content.material",
      "source.origin"
    ],
    "interaction": "the text repeats content taken from a source",
    "novel_properties": [
      "source attribution",
      "verbatim repeat"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment quotes verbatim from England's 1689 Bill of Rights on free speech rights.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linus Torvalds included a verbatim passage from Tanenbaum's Operating Systems textbook in the README of early Linux kernel code.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1963 March on Washington speech by Martin Luther King Jr. quotes the 'I have a dream' refrain from earlier sermons by preacher J. W. E. Bowen.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "text.written",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "quotation is a form of written text"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "quote",
    "quoted",
    "quotes",
    "quoting"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quote.writing"
}