mention

Etymology

From Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).

noun

1. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase make mention of.
2. (Internet, plural only) 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." November 20, 2012, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic
   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" […]. March 28, 2017, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today
   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). December 3, 2018, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times

verb

1. To make a short reference to something.
   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”. 2013-06-01, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
2. (philosophy, linguistics) 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. 2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers, page 140
   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”. 2009, Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach, Walter de Gruyter, page 124
   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. 2013, Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, Open Court