Meant vs Mention - What's the difference?
meant | mention |
A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxi. 16
* Shakespeare
To make a short reference to something.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To utter an word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
* 2006 , Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible , Moody Publishers (ISBN 9780802480354), page 140
* 2009 , Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach , Walter de Gruyter (ISBN 9783110205893), page 124
* 2013 , Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating , Open Court (ISBN 9780812697742)
As verbs the difference between meant and mention
is that meant is (mean) while mention is to make a short reference to something.As a noun mention is
a speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner used especially in the phrase to make mention of .mention
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will make mention of thy righteousness.
- And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
Verb
(en verb)End of the peer show, passage=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.
- 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 ”.