Mentioned vs Unicorn - What's the difference?
mentioned | unicorn |
(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)
(rft-sense)A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Great Britain and of Scotland.
(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.
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Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax.
The larva of a unicorn moth.
The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
A howitzer.
As a verb mentioned
is (mention).As a noun unicorn is
a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.mentioned
English
Verb
(head)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 ”.
Derived terms
* not to mentionunicorn
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(wikipedia unicorn)Noun
(en noun)- God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.