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use-mention distinction

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables
use--men-tion dis-tinc-tion
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from milk) and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in cheese is derived from a word in Old English); an instance of this distinction.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

use-mention distinctions (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

autonymy

Synonyms

words-as-words distinction

Questions

What does use-mention distinction mean?
The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from milk) and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in cheese is derived from a word in Old English); an instance of this distinction.

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