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Vocalize vs Mention - What's the difference?

vocalize | mention |

As verbs the difference between vocalize and mention

is that vocalize is to express with the voice, to utter 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.

vocalize

English

Alternative forms

* vocalise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To express with the voice, to utter.
  • * 1876, Walt Whitman, preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass
  • Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,...
  • (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
  • We could hear the monkeys vocalizing , though we could not see them.
  • (music) To sing without using words.
  • (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
  • (linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
  • (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
  • Synonyms

    * (of humans) (l)

    Derived terms

    * vocalization ----

    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