mention
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
Inflected forms:
form: mentions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mentions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mentioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mentioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mentioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I will make mention of thy righteousness.
And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
gloss: A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
plural
plural-only
uncountable
examples: "I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."
In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].
I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).
gloss: To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He happened to mention your name to me.
fine mantles of Irish frieze are mentioned in a list of goods exported from England to Pope Urban VI
It has already been mentioned that the Teutonic peoples of this period seem to have been fully conscious of their common origin.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
gloss: To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
pos: verb
examples: I can illustrate this by mentioning the word lead. Now you have no way of knowing for sure which meaning I have in mind until I give it some context by using it in a sentence.
If the verbatimness view derives from the popular notion that DST repeats 'the actual words spoken', a second line of thought takes its cue from Quine's (1940: 23–26, 1960: 146–156) philosophical distinction between words which are “used” vs. words which are merely “mentioned”.
If I said rightly, “'Niggers' is a seven letter word,” I would be mentioning the word, and when we write it, we use mention-quotes for this purpose (speech typically lacks quotes, except for the occasional air-quotes). If I said, rightly or wrongly, “Niggers are good athletes,” then I would be using “niggers,” not merely mentioning it.
Synonyms: bring up
mention
move
reference
toss up
touch
touch on
Antonyms: bespeech
enlarge oneself
orate
speechify
Related words: allude
Derived words: honorable mention
honorary mention
make mention
make mention of
mentionable
mentionless
nonmention
use-mention distinction
remention
@mention
come to mention it
don't mention it
intermention
mentionee
mentioner
more than one cares to mention
not to mention
now that you mention it
now you mention it
unmention
Translations: