Synonyms of the word

citation

• n. An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
• n. The paper containing such summons or notice.
• n. The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his/her own words.
• n. An entry in a list of source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
• n. The passage or words quoted; quotation.
• n. Enumeration; mention.
• n. A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
• n. A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.

accolade

• n. An expression of approval; praise.
• n. A special acknowledgment; an award.
• n. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
• n. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and…
• n. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
• n. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded…
• n. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its…
• v. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
• v. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
• v. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

acknowledgment

• n. The act of acknowledging; admission.
• n. The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the…
• n. An award or other expression or token of appreciation.
• n. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
• n. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received…
• n. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful…
• n. An owning as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
• n. (law) The act of a man admitting a child as his own.
• n. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or…

annotation

• n. a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
• n. a comment added to a text.
• n. the process of writing such comment or commentary.
• n. (computing) metadata added to a document or program.
• n. (genetics) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.

award

• n. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
• n. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
• n. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor…
• n. (obsolete) Care, keeping.
• n. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or…
• v. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful…
• v. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
• v. (transitive) to give an award (prize) for merit.

cite

• v. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
• v. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
• v. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
• n. (informal) a citation.

commendation

• n. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.
• n. That which is the ground of approbation or praise.
• n. A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting.
• n. An award or recognition for performance; a medal.

credit

• v. (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
• v. (transitive, accounting) To add to an account (confer debit.).
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
• v. (transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
• n. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition and respect.
• n. (countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
• n. (television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or…
• n. (uncountable, law, business) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's…
• n. The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
• n. (uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing…
• n. (accounting) An addition to certain accounts.
• n. (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
• n. A source of value, distinction or honour.
• n. An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
• n. (countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.

excerpt

• n. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition…
• v. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

excerption

• n. The act of excerpting or selecting.
• n. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

extract

• n. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
• n. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
• n. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential…
• n. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained.
• n. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant…
• n. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all…
• n. Ancestry; descent.
• n. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein,…
• v. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction,…
• v. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
• v. (transitive) To select parts of a whole.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

honor

• n. (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence…
• n. (countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such…
• n. A privilege.
• n. (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
• n. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
• n. (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
• n. (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon. (Compare honour point…
• n. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In…
• n. (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
• v. (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or…
• v. (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request,…
• v. (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
• v. (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).

honour

• n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.
• v. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.

laurels

• n. plural of laurel.
• n. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred…

mention

• n. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase…
• v. To make a short reference to something.
• v. (philosophy, linguistics) To utter an word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as…

notation

• n. (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs,…
• n. (uncountable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or…
• n. (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

quotation

• n. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from…
• n. The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.

quote

• n. A quotation, statement attributed to someone else.
• n. A quotation mark.
• n. A summary of work to be done with a set price.
• n. A price set for a financial security or commodity.
• v. (transitive) To repeat someone’s exact words.
• v. (transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
• v. (Commerce, transitive) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
• v. (archaic) To observe, to take account of.

reference

• n. (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
• n. A measurement one can compare to.
• n. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
• n. A reference work.
• n. (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to…
• n. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source…
• n. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
• n. (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing…
• n. (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in a web page…
• n. (obsolete) Appeal.
• v. To refer to, to make reference to.
• v. To mention, to cite.

selection

• n. The process or act of selecting.
• n. Something selected.
• n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• n. A musical piece.
• n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

summons

• n. A call to do something, especially to come.
• n. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
• n. (military) A demand for surrender.
• v. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon.

thoroughbred

• adj. Bred from pure stock.
• adj. Well-bred and properly educated.
• n. A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing.…
• n. (nonstandard, loosely) Any purebred horse.
• n. A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).
• n. A well-bred person.