Definition of "comment"

comment¹

/ˈkɒm.ɛnt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural comments
1. A spoken or written remark.
  Quotations
  “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, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
  Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
  2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎, Harvard University Press, page 12
2. (uncountable) The act of commenting.
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  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, page 168
3. (linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
4. (programming) 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.

comment²

/ˈkɒm.ɛnt/

verb
third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented
1. (transitive) To remark.
  Quotations
  “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.”
  1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
  "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. […]."
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  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
  As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."
  2009 Winter, John M. Kang, “Manliness and the Constitution”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 32, number 1, page 261
2. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
  Quotations
  […] who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof
  1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy
4. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
5. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

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