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comment

noun
/ˈkɒm.ɛnt/UK/ˈkɑ.mɛnt/US/kə.menʈ/

Etymology

From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).

  1. derived from commentum — “invention, fabrication”
  2. derived from commentum — “comment, interpretation”
  3. derived from coment — “commentary”
  4. inherited from coment

Definitions

  1. A spoken or written remark.

    • 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.

  2. The act of commenting.

    • People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.

  3. The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or…

      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.

    2. To remark.

      • "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

    3. To make remarks or notes

      To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.

      • He commented about your proposal.
      • The movie comments on race relations.

    4. To comment or remark on.

      • […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof

    5. To insert comments into (source code).

      • I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

    6. To comment out (code)

      To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at comment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at comment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA