comment

Plural: comments

Noun

• a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information
  • "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account"
• 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"
• a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
• A spoken or written remark.
• The act of commenting.
• The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: commented, commenting, comments

• To express an opinion or reaction.
• make or write a comment on
  • "he commented the paper of his colleague"
• explain or interpret something
• provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
• To remark.
• To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
• To comment or remark on.
• To insert comments into (source code).
• To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Examples

• He commented about your proposal.
• I have no comment on that.
• I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
• Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
• Players often comment on particularly clever word placements during a match.
• The movie comments on race relations.

Synonyms

annotate, commentary, gloss, gossip, input, notice, point out, remark, scuttlebutt, rheme

Related Words

document, pragma

Anagrams of comment