comment

Forms

1.A spoken or written remark.
- Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
- I have no comment on that.
- “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 part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
3.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.
4.The act of commenting.
- People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.

1.To remark.
- As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."
2.To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
- The movie comments on race relations.
- He commented about your proposal.
- We will first comment on the atypical flutter of our patient and then on the concept of opsoclonus/flutter of our patient and then on the concept of flutter upon convergence.
3.To insert comments into (source code).
- I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
4.To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Common· #604

From Middle English coment, comment

From Old French coment (“commentary”)

From Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”)

From Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).