Quote vs. Verse — What's the Difference?

Repeat or copy out (words from a text or speech written or spoken by another person)

A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry.

Give someone (the estimated price of a job or service)

A division of a metrical composition, such as a stanza of a poem or hymn.

Give (a company) a quotation or listing on a stock exchange

A poem.

A quotation from a text or speech

Metrical or rhymed composition as distinct from prose; poetry.

A quotation giving the estimated cost for a particular job or service

The art or work of a poet.

A quotation or listing of a company on a stock exchange.

A group of poems

Quotation marks

Metrical writing that lacks depth or artistic merit.

To repeat or copy (words from a source such as a book), usually with acknowledgment of the source

A particular type of metrical composition, such as blank verse or free verse.

To repeat or copy the words of (a person or a book or other source)

One of the numbered subdivisions of a chapter in the Bible.

To cite or refer to for illustration or proof

To versify or engage in versifying.

To repeat a brief passage or excerpt from

To familiarize by study or experience

To state (a price) for securities, goods, or services.

To play against (an opponent) in a competition.

To give a quotation, as from a book.

A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

A quotation.

Poetic form in general.

A quotation mark.

One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.

Used by a speaker to indicate the beginning of a direct quotation

A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)

A dictum; a saying.

(music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

A quotation; a statement attributed to a person.

(obsolete) To compose verses.

A quotation mark.

(transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.

A summary of work to be done with a set price.

To educate about, to teach about.

A price set for a financial security or commodity.

To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.

(transitive) To repeat (the exact words of a person).

Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.

(transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.

A short division of any composition.

To name the current price, notably of a financial security.

A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.

(intransitive) To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.

A piece of poetry.

(archaic) To observe, to take account of.

One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.

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; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.

To tell in verse, or poetry.

To name the current price of.

To make verses; to versify.

To notice; to observe; to examine.

Literature in metrical form

To set down, as in writing.

A piece of poetry

A note upon an author.

A line of metrical text

A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

Compose verses or put into verse;

A passage or expression that is quoted or cited

Familiarize through thorough study or experience;

Repeat a passage from;

Name the price of;

Refer to for illustration or proof;

Put quote marks around;