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Definition: MENTIONING |
MENTIONINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Mention |
Date "MENTIONING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unimportance | Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MENTIONING |
| English words defined with "MENTIONING": apophasis ♦ clerihew ♦ name-dropping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MENTIONING": Harpocrates, Hush-money ♦ story ♦ tortoise. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I fear Madox knows about us, he keeps mentioning Anna Karenina (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) | |
Lyrics | Not mentioning the fights, I'm sorry to say lady (Walking Away; performing artist: Craig David) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | But his spirits were soon rising again, and with laughing eyes, after mentioning the expected return of the Campbells, he named the name of Dixon |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Nothing happened worth mentioning in this voyage |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | It is worth mentioning that most traffic generated by Globalstar users located in Ukraine is between communication points located in Ukraine. (references) | |
Another project worth mentioning is "Transmilenio", a bus mass transportation system for the city of Bogota, inaugurated at the end of December 2000. It calls for continued and efficient maintenance and repair of approximately 5,000 vehicles. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | In Guárico state, a lawsuit for defamation against a journalist from the La Prensa del Llano newspaper and a court order prohibiting the newspaper from mentioning the state governor in its reports were regarded by some observers as a case of official pressure. (references) |
Trade | Thailand | In addition to import duties handled by the Customs Department, certain import items are also subject to excise tax . These include gasoline and products thereof, automobiles (less than 10 seats), electrical appliances, beverages, perfume, yachts and vessels for entertainment, lead crystal and other crystals, carpets and woven fur items, motorcycles, batteries, marble and granite, liquor, tobacco, and playing cards . It is worth mentioning that an excise tax is also imposed on local products in the same categories as well as on certain entertainment service providers such as horse racing grounds/clubs and golf clubs. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Glossing over the fact that I don't send faxes, notice that the Democratic embargo against mentioning my name has been broken. |
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| "MENTIONING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.07% of the time. "MENTIONING" is used about 429 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 99.07% | 425 | 13,445 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.93% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 429 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MENTIONING": it is not worth mentioning ♦ worth mentioning. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mentioning | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MENTIONING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 提及 (mention, Mentioned, referral). (various references) | |
Finnish | mainittava (noteworthy, worth mentioning), ei sanottavassa määrin (not appreciably, not in any degree worth mentioning). (various references) | |
French | mentionnant. (various references) | |
German | erwähnend. (various references) | |
Greek | συγγνώμη που το αναφέρω (excuse me for mentioning). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "זכר" (memorial prayer, mention, reminding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | említésre méltó dolog (thing worth mentioning). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyebutan (addressing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 言い"斐 (worth mentioning), 取り立てて (in particular, worth mentioning). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いいがい (worth mentioning), とりたてて (in particular, worth mentioning). (various references) | |
Korean | 언급 (mention, Referring). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entioningmay.(various references) | |
Romanian | pomenire (alms, commemoration, memorial, mention, reference, remembrance, requiem). (various references) | |
Russian | упоминать упоминающий. (various references) | |
Swedish | nämnvärd (worth mentioning). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"MENTIONING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: meltonin, mentionning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MENTIONING" (pronounced me"nshuning) |
| 5 | -sh u n i ng | apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, captioning, cautioning, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, decommissioning, fashioning, freshening, functioning, malfunctioning, motioning, partitioning, petitioning, positioning, rationing, reconditioning, repositioning, sanctioning, sectioning, stationing, vacationing. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fastening, fattening, flattening, frightening, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, margining, opening, orphaning, pardoning, poisoning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reexamining, reopening, ripening, ruining, saddening, seasoning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: intoning, mignonne, tenoning. | |
-3 letters: emoting, iteming, mention, minting, mitogen, omening, tinning, tongmen. | |
-4 letters: ignite, inning, intime, intine, intone, meting, mignon, mining, minion, nonmen, noting, tieing, timing, tining, tinmen, toeing, toning. | |
-5 letters: gemot, genii, genom, gnome, imine, imino, ingot, inion, monie, monte, ninon, niton, nomen, nonet, tenon, tigon, tinge, tonne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: denominating, renominating. | |
+3 letters: countermining, misconnecting, prenominating. | |
+4 letters: mountaineering, nonterminating. | |
+5 letters: decontaminating, monumentalizing, mountaineerings, recontaminating. | |
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