use-mention distinctions

A form of use-mention distinction — The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from milk) and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in cheese is derived from a word in Old English); an instance of this distinction.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of use-mention distinction
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