comment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
Etymology: From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).
Inflected forms:
form: comments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spoken or written remark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have no comment on that.
Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
gloss: The act of commenting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.
gloss: The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To remark.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."
I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game
As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."
gloss: To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He commented about your proposal.
The movie comments on race relations.
gloss: To comment or remark on.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof
gloss: To insert comments into (source code).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
gloss: To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: pragma
document
Derived words: block comment
comment clause
commentize
commentless
comment section
commentworthy
conditional comment
C-style comment
fair comment
fairy comment
honest comment
letter of comment
metacomment
miscomment
no comment
notice and comment
public comment
sidebar comment
subcomment
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