comment

A spoken or written remark.

Noun

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. - 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers,...
The act of commenting.
- People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent. - 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster,...
The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
Synonyms: rheme
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.

Origin

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

Forms

comments

pragma

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

Verb

To remark.
- “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...
- "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...
- I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game - 2003 July 5, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, in NPR_Saturday:
To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
- He commented about your proposal.
- The movie comments on race relations.
To comment or remark on.
- […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof - 1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy:
To insert comments into (source code).
- I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.