mention

plural mentions

1. countableuncountableA speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.

   I will make mention of thy righteousness.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 71:16

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   And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.

   1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

2. Internetcountablepluralplural onlyuncountableA social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.

   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" […].

   2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today

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   "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."

   2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic

   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).

   2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times

present singular third person mentions · participle present mentioning · participle past mentioned · past mentioned

1. transitiveTo make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify

   He happened to mention your name to me.

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   fine mantles of Irish frieze are mentioned in a list of goods exported from England to Pope Urban VI

   1911, Osbert J. R. Howarth et al, “Ireland”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 14, page 750

   It has already been mentioned that the Teutonic peoples of this period seem to have been fully conscious of their common origin.

   1911, “Teutonic Peoples”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 26, page 680

   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”.

   2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71

2. human sciencesTo utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.

   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.

   2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers, →ISBN, page 140

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   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”.

   2009, Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 124

   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.

   2013, Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, Open Court, →ISBN