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noun/ˈkɒmɛnt//ˈkɔmɛnt//ˈkɑmɛnt/
  1. 1

    A spoken or written remark.countableuncountable

    • I have no comment on that.
    • Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
  2. 2

    The act of commenting.uncountable

    • People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.
  3. 3

    The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.countableuncountable

  4. 4

    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.countableuncountable

verb/ˈkɒmɛnt//ˈkɔmɛnt//ˈkɑmɛnt/
  1. 1

    To remark.transitive

    • "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
  2. 2

    To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.intransitive

    • He commented about your proposal.
    • The movie comments on race relations.
  3. 3

    To comment or remark on.obsoletetransitive

    • […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof
  4. 4

    To insert comments into (source code).transitive

    • I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
  5. 5

    To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.transitive

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