mention

Substantiv

1. 1

   A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.

   I will make mention of thy righteousness.

   And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.

2. 2

   A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.

   "I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."

   In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].

   I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).

Verb

1. 1

   To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify

   He happened to mention your name to me.

   fine mantles of Irish frieze are mentioned in a list of goods exported from England to Pope Urban VI

   It has already been mentioned that the Teutonic peoples of this period seem to have been fully conscious of their common origin.

   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.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

2. 2

   To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.

   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”.

   If I said rightly, “'Niggers' is a seven letter word,” I would be mentioning the word, and when we write it, we use mention-quotes for this purpose (speech typically lacks quotes, except for the occasional air-quotes). If I said, rightly or wrongly, “Niggers are good athletes,” then I would be using “niggers,” not merely mentioning it.

Formen

Plural

mentions

Präteritum

mentioned

Partizip II

mentioned

Partizip I

mentioning

3. Person Singular

mentions