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Mention vs Poster - What's the difference?

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Mention is a related term of poster.


As nouns the difference between mention and poster

is that mention is a speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner used especially in the phrase to make mention of while poster is poster.

As a verb mention

is to make a short reference to something.

mention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • I will make mention of thy righteousness.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a short reference to something.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.
  • 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
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach , Walter de Gruyter (ISBN 9783110205893), page 124
    • 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 ”.
  • * 2013 , Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating , Open Court (ISBN 9780812697742)

    • Derived terms

    * not to mention

    Anagrams

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    poster

    English

    Etymology 1

    from to post (placcard, publish) + -er

    Noun

    (wikipedia poster) (en noun)
  • One who s a message.
    • Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.
  • One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Posters of the sea and land.
  • (dated) A posthorse.
  • * C. Lever
    • Posters at full gallop.
  • An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
    • I saw a poster for it on the side of a bus.
  • A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
    • He has posters of his favorite band, sports teams and holiday resorts up.
  • (ice hockey, slang) A shot which only hits a goal post without going in
    • We got three posters in the third and lost.
    Derived terms
    * movie poster * OP * poster paint

    Etymology 2

    from to post (travel, dispatch) + -er

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A post-horse
  • (archaic) A swift traveler

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