explicit mention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexplicitandmention
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explicit
adjective
uk/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt/us/ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt/
clear ...
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mention
noun
uk/ˈmen.ʃən/us/ˈmen.ʃən/
a short remark or ...
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(Definition ofexplicitandmentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofexplicit mention
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Culture appeared concretely as the deciding factor, with noexplicitmentionof racial descent.
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The averages were derived from populations for whom there is noexplicitmentionin the source material that they were all first marriages.
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This is, however, the onlyexplicitmentionof cognitive capacities and systems in the book.
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Only 7.5% discuss unaccusative verbs, while 10% give examples of inappropriate passives (explicitmention) and 10% explain that certain verbs cannot passivise (implicit mention).
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In this case, noexplicitmentionis made of the object (the cafe) in reference maintenance.
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Underlying all of this is a theme which does not gainexplicitmentionin this volume - that of the ultimate 'sustainability' of urban formations.
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In this case, there may be noexplicitmentionof any required qualification or competence, because any such mention might be considered superfluous.
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The first set, called the wholeset, comes into focus due to theexplicitmentionof children within the quantified expression.
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The following four properties can be easily verified and will be used in the following withoutexplicitmention.
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For closed configurations we may omitexplicitmentionof the empty and sets.
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From now on we will drop theexplicitmentionof equivalence classes, and work with representatives to simplify the presentation.
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Theexplicitmentionof spatio-temporal coordinates has the same effect (51c).
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Space restrictions prevent discussion of each chapter individually, but the introductory one deservesexplicitmention.
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But the reporter's status as a pragmatic source is implicit in the speech situation anyway: nothing fundamental is lost by eliminatingexplicitmentionof the reporter.
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In this proof and subsequent ones, we extend the convention described earlier in which we refer to identifiers in the semantic definitions withoutexplicitmentionin the proof.
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What's more, theexplicitmentionof the verbal predicate is relatively rare in such cases - that is, examples such as (1a) are more common than (1b).
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