comment

From Middle English coment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum, from comminisci (“to invent”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmɛnt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɛnt/

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comment (plural comments)

1. 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.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     “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. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.

• pragma

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

1. (transitive) To remark.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     “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.”

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0124:

     "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. […]."

   • 2003 July 5, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, in NPR_Saturday:

     I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game

   • 2009 Winter, John M. Kang, “Manliness and the Constitution”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 32, number 1, page 261:

     As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."

2. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

4. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).

   I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

5. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

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• comment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• comment at OneLook Dictionary Search

comme +‎ -ment[1]

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

comment

1. how

   Comment te sens-tu ? ― How do you feel?

• comment allez-vous, comment vas-tu, comment ça va (“how are you”)

• → German: Komment
• Louisiana Creole French: konmen

• “comment” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cõment

comment

1. how (in a given manner)
2. (interrogative) how (in what manner)

comment

1. Alternative form of comant

Borrowed from English comment.

comment m (plural comments)

1. (Internet slang) comment, remark

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