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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 .

As a verb mention

is to make a short reference to something.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    x

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

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