different between see vs mention

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?, IPA^(key): /si?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: C, cee, sea, Seay

Etymology 1

From Middle English seen, from Old English s?on (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwan? (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to see, notice”).

Verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)

1. (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I want to see this house!

   1. To witness or observe by personal experience.

      Hyponyms: experience, suffer
   2. To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.

2. To form a mental picture of.
   1. (figuratively) To understand.
   2. To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.

   3. (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.

   4. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.

3. (social) To meet, to visit.
   1. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
   2. To date frequently.

   3. To visit for a medical appointment.

4. (transitive; ergative) To be the setting or time of.
5. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

6. (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.

7. (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

8. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).

9. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.

10. To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.

11. To include as one of something's experiences.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (perceive with the eyes): behold, descry, espy, observe, view
• (understand): follow, get, understand
• (date frequently): go out; see also Thesaurus:date

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

see

1. Introducing an explanation

   Synonyms: look, well, so

Translations

See also

• look
• sight
• watch

Etymology 2

From Middle English se, see, from Old French sie (“seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see”), from Latin sedes (“seat”), referring to the bishop's throne or chair (compare seat of power) in the cathedral; related to the Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).

Noun

see (plural sees)

1. a diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
2. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
3. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

Related terms

Derived terms

• Holy See

Translations

See also

• cathedra
• cathedral
• chair
• throne

Further reading

• see on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ese, ESE, Ese, ees, ese

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• sé (obsolete)

Etymology

From Dutch zee, from Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch s?o, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Noun

see (plural seë)

1. sea

Derived terms

• seekoei
• seesout
• seevis
• seevoël
• seewater

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *se, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *?e. cognate to Finnish se, Votic se, Erzya ?? (se, “this, that”), Khanty ?? (si, “that over yonder; now, then”), and Nganasan [script needed] (sete, “he, she”).

Pronoun

see (genitive selle, partitive seda)

1. this
2. it
3. (colloquial, somewhat rude) he, she (usually only used when said person is not present)

Declension

See also

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?/, [?s?e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: see

Etymology 1

Compare Swedish ce, English cee, both ultimately from Latin c? with the c sound changed from a /k/ to a /s/ as is a common change in languages using the Latin alphabet.

Alternative forms

• cee

Noun

see

1. cee (The name of the Latin-script letter C.)

Usage notes

• Speakers often use the corresponding forms of c-kirjain ("letter C, letter c") instead of inflecting this word, especially in plural. The plural forms may get confused with sei (“saithe”).

Declension

Synonyms

• c-kirjain

Etymology 2

< seitsemän

Numeral

see

1. (colloquial, counting) seven

See also

• seitsemän (“seven”)

Friulian

Alternative forms

• siee

Etymology

From the verb seâ. Compare Italian sega, Venetian siega, French scie.

Noun

see f (plural seis)

1. saw

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch s?o, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Noun

sêe f or m

1. sea

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: zee f
  • Afrikaans: see
  • ? Sranan Tongo: se
  • ? Saramaccan: zé
• Limburgish: zieë f
• West Flemish: zji m or f, zêe

Further reading

• “see”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “see (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s?

Alternative forms

• se, sæ, ce, sea, sei, ze

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/, /se?/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

see (plural sees)

2. sea, ocean
3. A body of water, a lake

Related terms

• Rede See

Descendants

• English: sea
• Scots: se, see, sey, seye, sie
• Yola: zea

References

• “s?, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

Etymology 2

From Old French sei, from Latin sedes.

Alternative forms

• se, ce, cee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

see (plural sees)

2. seat, chair
3. dwelling, residence
4. A royal or episcopal chair
5. A royal or episcopal polity or realm
6. A royal or episcopal residence
7. (Christianity) The Kingdom of Heaven.

Descendants

• English: see

References

• “s?, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian s?, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi. Cognates include Dutch zee.

Noun

see m (plural seen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) lake

Scots

Alternative forms

• sie, sey, sei

Etymology

From Middle English seen, from Old English s?on, from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan. Cognate with English see.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?si]
• (Coast Scots) IPA^(key): [?s?i?]

Verb

see (third-person singular present sees, present participle seein, past saw, seed, past participle seen)

1. to see

References

Tetum

Verb

see

1. to turn, to present

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian s?, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?/

Noun

see c (plural seeën, diminutive seeke)

1. sea

Derived terms

• seehûn
• seeko
• seerôver

Further reading

• “see”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n??n/
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Hyphenation: men?tion

Noun

mention (plural mentions)

1. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase make mention of.

   • I will make mention of thy righteousness.
2. (Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.

Derived terms

• mentionable
• mentionless

Translations

Verb

mention (third-person singular simple present mentions, present participle mentioning, simple past and past participle mentioned)

1. To make a short reference to something.
2. (philosophy, linguistics) To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
   • 2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers ?ISBN, page 140

     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.

   • 2009, Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach, Walter de Gruyter ?ISBN, page 124

     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”.

   • 2013, Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, Open Court ?ISBN

     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.

Synonyms

(make a short reference to something): See Thesaurus:mention

Derived terms

• not to mention
• unmention

Translations

Anagrams

• nontime, omentin

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin menti?, mentionis.

Pronunciation

Noun

mention f (plural mentions)

1. mention (act of mentioning)
2. slogan

Related terms

• mentionner

Further reading

• “mention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• mencion
• mension

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin menti?, mentionis.

Noun

mention f (oblique plural mentions, nominative singular mention, nominative plural mentions)

1. mention (act of mentioning)

See also

• mentevoir