mention
noun
- means by which a blog or social media post references or links to a user's profile
- saying in passing
verb
- refer to
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛnʃən/ / /ˈmɛnʃn̩/
noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
- 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.”
- 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" […].”
verb
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
- 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”
- 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”.”