单词 | close quote |
释义 | > as lemmasclose quote transitive. To write or type the punctuation mark that typically forms the second of a pair of (brackets, quotation marks, etc., which enclose a piece of text). Frequently in imperative. Hence forming noun compounds denoting such a punctuation mark, as close bracket, close quote, etc. Cf. open v. 17g. ΚΠ 1916 N.Y. Tribune 16 Nov. 9/1 Tis a fearful thing..To be shattered in the blast comma And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder semi-colon quote Cut away the mast exclamation point close quote. 1946 Italica 23 371 (note) Close quotes beginning on p. 148. 1948 Words into Type 282 (note) The terms curves, brackets, and round brackets are never used in printing offices for parentheses. The term there used is parens, separately designated open paren and close paren. 1967 F. R. Rogers in ‘M. Twain’ Satires & Burlesques Pref. p. v Almost habitually Mark Twain failed to close parentheses and internal quotations. 1969 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 34 141 The author makes the following corrections... To the 1961 paper: p. 502, lines 10, 12, and 19, there should be a double close-quotes. 1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 327/2 Open brackets, this is not a joke, I do not find my name remotely funny and people who do end up dead, close brackets. 2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Nov. a3. 2 Those dinky little semi-colon-close-bracket winks beloved of young mobile phone text-maniacs. < as lemmas |
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