Comment

/ˈkɒm.ɛnt/ · noun

Meaning

A spoken or written remark..

Definitions by Sense

1. A spoken or written remark.
2. (uncountable) The act of commenting.
3. (linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
4. (programming) 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.
5. (transitive) To remark.
6. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
8. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).

Example Sentences

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).

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

“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

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• comments
• commenting
• commented

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