To make a short reference to something.
Used in a Sentence
mentions
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mentions.
Editorial note
For what it's worth, the author (sankho) mentions that he uses other editors for project-wide find and replace.
Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
To make a short reference to something.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of mentions gathered in one view.
(philosophy, linguistics) To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for mentions.
verb
To make a short reference to something.
verb
(philosophy, linguistics) To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
Example sentences
For what it's worth, the author (sankho) mentions that he uses other editors for project-wide find and replace.
Granted, the article mentions this, it just seems preferential to have an office a bit too cold rather than too hot.
He wouldn't have put it that way if Einstein had been the source, especially since he mentions Einstein elsewhere in the same paragraph.
As the linked article mentions, the solution was to optimize a massively-parallel algorithm by finding coherent rays that can be efficiently calculated together.
The article mentions Sunday Assembly as an example of a British secular community.
The poster mentions the low rate of federal tax on the average wage.
Another good strategy is to contemptuously dismiss the first contract a recruiter mentions.
It just suddenly stops at the point he mentions the bartender program.
The article specifically mentions that red deer antlers have more points, which I think is something only hunters worry about.
The article mentions overlapping images, but how would this manifest itself?
Nobody here mentions anying about the very peculiar banking system that let the swiss economy get a huge chunk of the illegaly made money of the world?
The article mentions this figure includes messages received.
Quote examples
The blog post mentions "the images are too low resolution for a good print.
In Haruki Murakami's "The Birth of My Kitchen Table Fiction" he mentions: "It cost a lot less to open your own place back then [1974] than it does now.
The spec talks about the server being "willing" to respond to requests from different origins, and explicitly mentions that it may support multiple origins ( "This is why the server has to send these strings: to confirm which origins and URLs the server is willing to service" ).
"Plato v Aristotle: A clash between two ways of how to approach understanding of the world: mystical idealist and methodological, which would become scientific method." The article mentions this epic intellectual clash but fails to make the connection to today.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use mentions in a sentence?
For what it's worth, the author (sankho) mentions that he uses other editors for project-wide find and replace.
What does mentions mean?
To make a short reference to something.
What part of speech is mentions?
mentions is commonly used as verb.