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alludeal‧lude /əˈluːd/ ●○○ verb  alludeOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin alludere, from ad- ‘with’ + ludere ‘to play’ VERB TABLEallude |
Present | I, you, we, they | allude | | he, she, it | alludes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | alluded | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have alluded | | he, she, it | has alluded | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had alluded | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will allude | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have alluded |
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Present | I | am alluding | | he, she, it | is alluding | | you, we, they | are alluding | Past | I, he, she, it | was alluding | | you, we, they | were alluding | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been alluding | | he, she, it | has been alluding | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been alluding | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be alluding | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been alluding |
- Afterwards Lewis wished he had said something scathing, alluding perhaps to the lateness of the hour or Adam's appearance.
- Besides, it struck him as a little absurd to allude to the matter.
- I do not now allude to preference though of course that comes first.
- This building serves as a point of reference, alluding in its monumentality to the idea of art as drama.
- Two further programmes alluding to the resignation, due to be aired on Jan. 4 and 11, had also been blocked.
to mention someone or something► mention to say something about a person, plan, event etc, especially during a conversation, without giving any details or saying very much: · When you were talking to Barbara, did she mention her mother at all?· We didn't really discuss the price, but somebody mentioned a figure of £300.mention (that): · Eve mentioned that you might be looking for a temporary job.mention something to somebody: · She had started having nose bleeds, but when she mentioned this to her doctor, he told her not to worry.worth mentioning: · "Why didn't you tell me?" "It didn't seem worth mentioning."now (that) you mention it (=used to agree when someone has introduced a new subject): · Now that you mention it, I did think she was behaving a little strangely last night.mention something in passing (=mention something quickly, without spending much time on it): · Then he remembered that Liz had mentioned in passing that her father was a lawyer. ► refer to to say something about a person, plan, event etc in a conversation, speech, or piece of writing: · Although she didn't mention any names, everyone knew who she was referring to.· I apologized, and the matter was never referred to again.· I think what Mary was referring to earlier was her manager's inability to make the right decision. ► allude to formal to mention someone or something in a deliberately indirect way: · She has often alluded to a secret tragedy in her past.· When the director spoke of "major problems", I assumed that he was alluding to mechanical failures in the computer system. ► touch on to mention a subject or a fact during a speech, a lesson, a piece of writing etc, but without spending much time on it: · In my last lecture I touched on a number of important issues which I am now going to examine in some detail. ► throw in informal to mention something that is not closely connected with what you are saying, or that it is not necessary to mention: throw in something/throw something in : · He likes to throw in references to his days in the army. ► namedropping the practice of mentioning the names of famous or important people that you know or meet, in order to impress other people: · I hate the namedropping that is a feature of most autobiographies. allude to somebody/something phrasal verb formal to mention something or someone indirectly: Rick didn’t want to discuss his past, though he alluded darkly to ‘some bad things that happened.’ |