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How to sign: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
"the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical;
Similiar / Same: quotation, acknowledgment, mention, citation, credit
Categories: annotation, notation, note
Within this category: cross-reference, photo credit
How to sign: a remark that calls attention to something or someone
"she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife";
Similiar / Same: mention
Within this category: allusion, name-dropping, retrospection
How to sign: the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
"the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos";
Similiar / Same: denotation, extension
