Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To speak or write about, especially briefly or incidentally.
- noun The act or an instance of mentioning something.
- noun A statement or citation of honor or appreciation.
- idiom (not to mention) In addition to; as well as.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make mention of; speak of briefly or cursorily; speak of; name; refer to.
- noun Statement about or reference to a person or thing; notice or remark; especially, assertion or statement without details or particulars.
- noun Indication; evidence.
- noun Note; reputation.
- noun Report; account.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase
to make mention of . - transitive verb To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
- verb To make a
short reference to something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- verb make reference to
- noun a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- noun an official recognition of merit
- verb make mention of
- verb commend
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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This characterization is no clearer than the intuitive distinction between use and mention, and matters become even more complicated as soon as we do try to characterize ˜mention™ and
Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009
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So if in one message I @mention you and @kevinmarks, and another message next month I mention you and @dannysullivan, you become a link between those two people and their streams of messages and @mentions.
TechCrunch Steve Gillmor 2010
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According to Krikorian, "something like 50% of tweets" contain at least one @mention, list mention, URL or hashtag. developers who want to understand the tweet text have to parse the text to try to extract those entities (which can get really hard and difficult when dealing with unicode characters) and then have to potentially make another REST call to resolve that data.
ReadWriteWeb 2010
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mention, whether a Tweet by the author, a retweet by a reader, an @mention of other such authorities, the implicit clouds of such signals.
TechCrunch Steve Gillmor 2011
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The brief did not mention the 9/11 plot, nor did the title mention airplanes.
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Hi there, as the title mention, I need to buy just 1 article that review about a web.
Digital Point Forums 2009
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It's worth noting that the "near-equal" funding success the mention is actually a small but statistically significant difference in favor of male applicants.
You Didn't Think You Could Win, Did You? Peggy 2008
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It's worth noting that the "near-equal" funding success the mention is actually a small but statistically significant difference in favor of male applicants.
Archive 2008-12-01 Peggy 2008
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Greg - why does your title mention "Liberals" rather than "Progressives" since the article is about members of the Progressive caucus??
House Dem Leaders Face Mounting Challenge From Liberal Members Over Iraq Approach 2009
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Also worth a mention is the acronymless ex who has finally succumbed to the lure of my friends-only posts and become the_beer_hunter.
The One With The New Layout kisobel 2006
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