Comment
['kɒment] or ['kɑmɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; 'he wrote an extended comment on the proposal'.
(verb.) make or write a comment on; 'he commented the paper of his colleague'.
(verb.) explain or interpret something.
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Definition
(v. i.) To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon.
(v. t.) To comment on.
(n.) A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.
(n.) A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Annotate, make notes, make comments or remarks.
n. [1]. Annotation, note, explanation, elucidation, illustration, exposition, commentary.[2]. Remark, observation.
Typist: Loretta
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See OBSERVATION]
SYN:Note, observe, interpret, illustrate, expound, dilate, explain, expatiate,criticise
ANT:Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconceive,misrepresent
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Definition
n. a note conveying an illustration or explanation: a remark observation criticism.—v.i. (or kom-ent′) to make critical or explanatory notes: to annotate: (Shak.) to meditate.—ns. Comm′entary a comment: a remark: a book consisting of a regular series of comments or notes on another book; Commentā′tion annotation; Comm′entātor Comm′enter (or Comment′er) Comm′entor (or Comment′or).—adj. Commentatō′rial pertaining to the making of commentaries.
Typist: Montague
Examples
- My fall excited no comment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Elinor read and returned it without any comment. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But he did not make any audible comment upon it,--only ordered Tom to get the horses out for a ride. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- These are facts that the historian of mankind is obliged to note with as little comment as possible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His own aversion to reform, his fondness for vast epochs and his contempt for current effort have left most of his psychological laws in the region of interesting literary comment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Can't make this fellow out, was his mental comment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Somewhat akin to this is a shrewd comment on one feature of the Exposition: I spent several days in the Exposition at Paris. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Always at hand will be found one or two of the laboratory note-books, with frequent entries or comments in the handwriting which once seen is never forgotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He read as much of his notes to the jury as he could decipher on so short a notice, and made running-comments on the evidence as he went along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The comments are my own, and show how I saw the matters treated of whether others saw them in the same light or not. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The young inspector winced at my companion's ironical comments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- No one knew exactly what inspired her elliptic comments, and her relations had long since given up trying to interpret them. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It is difficult to believe nowadays that the order of nature indulged in any such meaningless comments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The girl's beauty elicited many brutal comments and vulgar jests. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I commented, as that spectre rose up black by the black yew at the gate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the fourth century and at the begi nning of the fifth, Theon and his illustrious daughter Hypatia commented on and taught the astronomy of Ptolemy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The forces La Follette set in motion are commented upon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Strange, commented Miss Helstone, passing strange! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To me, she commented no more on her lover's beauty. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She would not take a flower the day before, for fear of being observed, and her motives and feelings commented upon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- On the contrary, his austere face was even more severe than usual as he commented upon the things that I had done and the things that I had not. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Its splendour was in such contrast to his homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had a wonderful satisfaction in seeing him, and in commenting on his decayed condition after he was gone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- An English paper, commenting on the matter, said, The weak point of the lamp is this, that in order to be luminous, platinum must be heated almost to the point of melting. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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