comment

1 a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" [syn: remark]

2 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" [syn: commentary]

3 a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip" [syn: gossip, scuttlebutt]

1 make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague" [syn: notice, remark, point out]

2 explain or interpret something

3 provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" [syn: gloss, annotate]

English

Etymology

From commentum.

Pronunciation

• (US) /ˈkɑmɛnt/, /"kAmEnt/

Noun

1. A spoken remark.
2. A remark in source code which does not directly affect the behavior of the program.

See also

• pragma

Translations

• Croatian: komentar
• Czech: komentář
• Dutch: commentaar
• Finnish: kommentti (1,2)
• German: Kommentar
• Greek: σχόλιο (schólio) (1,2)
• French: commentaire
• Hebrew: הערה (he'ara) (1)
• Ido: komento
• Italian: commento (1)
• Polish: komentarz
• Portuguese: comentário
• Romanian: comentariu
• Swedish: kommentar

Verb

1. To remark.
2. To insert comments into source code

Translations

• Arabic: تعليق
• Finnish: kommentoida (1,2)
• French: commenter
• German: kommentieren
• Hebrew: להעיר (le'ha'yr) (1)
• Polish: komentować
• Portuguese: comentar
• Spanish: comentar
• Swedish: kommentera

Derived terms

• uncomment
• comment out

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ.mɑ̃/
• SAMPA: /kO.mA~/

Adverb

comment

1. how

A comment is generally a verbal or written remark. The use of the word is often related to an added piece of information, or an observation or statement. Specific meanings include:

Computing

• Comment (computer programming), information embedded in the source code of a computer program, often explanatory text
• Syntax of comments in various programming languages''
• Comments in word processing documents
• Comments in configuration files
• Feedback comment system, a system by which comments can be posted on a website

Engineering

• Request for Comments (RFC) documents applicable to computer network engineering and internet technologies.

Law

• Comments under rulemaking in United States administrative law
• Obiter dicta issued by a judge in a court opinion

Publishing

• Peer review comments in academic publishing
• Comments and notes as law review articles
• Comments in newspaper editorials

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