单词 | comment |
释义 | commentn.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] drawth1340 treatisea1375 commentc1400 treatc1400 treatyc1400 tract1432 tractate1474 disputationa1533 commentary1547 tractive1558 tractation1563 diatribe1581 examen1606 dispute1608 ergasy1637 hippiatrics1646 disquisition1647 dissertation1651 tractic1651 supernaturals1676 adenography1689 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] expositiona1464 postils1483 commenta1522 commentary?1548 enarration1570 interpretation1572 commentation1579 margent1579 commentar1641 scholiasting1678 subnotation1705 margin1824 intertext1986 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 43 Galion seiþ in þe eende of his coment coold is moost grevous to a senewy lyme þat is woundid. c1475 Babees Bk. (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 1 This tretys..this lytil coment. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. Transl. to Rdr. 141 I haue alsso a schort comment [v.r. commend] compilyt To expon strange histouris and termys wild. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 5 A thirde boke, which is a very comment and exposytour unto my seconde. 1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd i. sig. B3v He speakes all riddle... I must haue a comment ere I can conceiue him. View more context for this quotation 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 45 Barbaro..in his largest Edition of his Comment upon Vitruvius. 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 139 The middle three [lections] from some Comment on Holy Scripture. 2. a. A remark or note in explanation, exposition, or criticism of a literary passage; an annotation; a remark or criticism (on or upon anything). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > instance of comment1509 censurea1575 criticism1608 hypercritic1619 critisma1639 critique1656 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note comment1509 annotation1528 note1532 scholium1535 scholy1535 adversaria1571 commentation1579 scholion1579 notation1587 paraphrase1615 remark1629 notelet1834 adscript1889 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxiiii For all scripture newe commentis to deuyse. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 264 Forgiue the Comment that my passion made Vpon thy feature. View more context for this quotation a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 11 Some Comments clear not, but increase the doubt. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 494 Hence comment after comment. 1781 G. Crabbe Library 8 Bibles with cuts and comments. 1871 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 25 What few explanatory comments I have felt it necessary to add. b. In extended and figurative uses. ΚΠ 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 127 a Which wonder the southsaires interpreted to betoken a great..alteration..which according to..their coment happened. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. xv. 129 Bella looked to Mrs. Boffin's face for a comment on..this stormy humour in her husband. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 264 The names of the hostages..are a good comment on the mixed population of the Northern Kingdom. c. Colloquial phrase no comment: a conventional statement of refusal to comment on a situation, esp. when answering a journalist, interviewer, or the like.(Frequently with hyphen) as adjectival phrase. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > taciturnity [phrase] > no comment no comment1950 1950 Time 18 Sept. 26 Questioned on a press report that ‘a close adviser to President Truman’ was predicting Johnson's resignation, White House Press Secretary Charles Ross issued a perfunctory ‘no comment’. 1957 ‘P. Quentin’ Suspicious Circumstances ii. 17 ‘No comment at all.’ She dropped the receiver and watched me again... ‘I've always wanted to say No Comment into a phone.’ 1965 A. Prior Interrogators xi. 205 ‘Is this man a suspect?’ ‘No comment. Sorry.’ 1966 S. B. Jackman Davidson Affair iii. 22 I thought he was strictly a no-comment man. 1970 Guardian 8 Jan. 2/4 The District Attorney..answered ‘No comment’, when asked if the inquiry had been worthwhile. 1971 ‘L. Black’ Death has Green Fingers iii. 32 The police simply didn't know any more yet. When they did, the ‘no comment’ answers would begin. 1971 ‘E. Fenwick’ Impeccable People xix. 103 Ben wore his no-comment expression. 3. collective. The expository or critical matter added to illustrate the text of a book. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note > collectively comment1589 peritext1977 1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 41 Beware my Comment, tis odds the margent shall be as full as the text. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos Pref. p. xxxi The..Text..is printed..in a black English letter, the more easily to be distinguished from the Comment. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 80 Some adopted the Comment, others stuck to the Text. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 681 in Idylls of King None can read the text, not even I; And none can read the comment but myself. 4. The action of commenting; animadversion, criticism, remark. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning > comment or remark speechc1305 mindc1350 touchc1400 to make reporturec1475 observation1564 wipe1596 remark1629 propos1816 comment1850 by-the-way1896 trailer1941 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iii. 53 You need not set your thoughts in rubric thus For wholesale comment. 1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 185 The fact that he should have taken no distinct side..has been the subject of some comment. ΚΠ 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Comment,..Sometime it is taken for a lie or fayned tale. Compounds commentless, comment-like adj. or adv. ΚΠ 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 242 They Comment-like refer to this. 1886 H. Merivale in Temple Bar 76 550 The commentless record of such and such a letter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). commentv. I. representing medieval Latin commentāre. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] findeOE conceive1340 seek1340 brewc1386 divine1393 to find outc1405 to search outc1425 to find up?c1430 forgec1430 upfindc1440 commentc1450 to dream out1533 inventa1538 father1548 spina1575 coin1580 conceit1591 mint1593 spawn1594 cook1599 infantize1619 fabulize1633 notionate1645 to make upc1650 to spin outa1651 to cook up1655 to strike out1735 mother1788 to think up1855 to noodle out1950 gin1980 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)] forgec1386 contrivec1400 commentc1450 dissimule1483 devisea1535 invent1535 fable1553 coin1561 to make upc1650 manufacture1700 to tell the tale1717 fabricate1779 concoct1792 fob1805 mythologize1851 fabulate1856 phoney1940 c1450 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 129 Machomete the false prophete..commentenge [L. commentavit, v.r. adinvenit] the wickede secte of Saracenys. a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 376 Whether it may be seen rightful to comment any thing or to abate as concerning the matter in defining holy scriptures. a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. liii, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii3 Where were ye borne? some say in Crete by name, Others in Thebes, and others other-where; But wheresoeuer they comment the same, They all consent that ye begotten were, And borne here in this world. II. f. comment n. 2. a. transitive. To furnish with comments; to make a comment or comments on; to annotate. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] expounda1340 descant?1510 comment1599 commentary1648 commentate1794 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > interpret in particular way [verb (transitive)] > annotate, comment annotec1525 descant?1532 comment1599 commentary1648 annotate1693 commentate1794 to mark up1963 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 75 Leysure to reprinte, correcte, and comente the same. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 19 Anselme..commenting the Epistles to Titus and the Philippians. 1695 J. Humfrey Mediocria (ed. 2) 29 I comment therefore these words thus. 1709 M. Prior Carmen Seculare (new ed.) in Poems Several Occasions 146 To trace each Toil, and comment ev'ry War. 1765 S. Johnson Pref. to Shakespear's Plays p. liv The chief desire of him that comments an authour. ΚΠ 1642 T. Fuller Holy State 33 (T.) She studiously avoids all suspicious expressions, which wanton apprehensions may colourably comment into obscenity. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xl. 217 This oath, like other oaths, is commented away, and interpreted so loosly. 3. intransitive. To write explanatory or critical notes (†to) on, or upon a text. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > comment [verb (intransitive)] glozec1380 gloss1579 scance1606 comment1611 annotate1733 commentate1828 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Commenté, expounded, commented on. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 230 Hee..Commenting to that text of Scripture..writes, etc. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 757 To be copied, printed, commented on, translated. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 201 The treatise was..commented, abridged..and even turned into verse. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 73 The same Manuscript which I am translating, and upon which I am commenting. 1904 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Apr. 272 Tennyson's In Memoriam, commented by L. Morel. 4. a. To make comments or remarks (on, upon). (Often implying unfavourable remarks.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention > comment on note1607 observe1613 commenta1616 observea1616 remark1676 commentate1861 to pass a remark1899 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > play the critic [verb (intransitive)] > often unfavourably commenta1616 criticize1621 commentate1861 a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 38 Not an eye that sees you, but is a Physician to comment on your Malady. View more context for this quotation 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Little expecting the curiosity of future ages should comment upon their ashes. 1871 R. F. Weymouth Euphuism 11 I have been commenting pretty freely on the errors of two critics. 1872 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (ed. 2) 12 William of Malmesbury's tale, on which he himself thus comments. b. With the remark as an object clause or sentence. ΚΠ 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 60 Commenting that divorce was permitted only for the help of wives. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxix. 170 ‘Two opposite schools at once, you see,’ commented Gervase. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > take note, observe [verb (intransitive)] awaitc1300 wait1338 animadvertc1550 comment1597 the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)] thinkOE thinkOE bethinka1200 umthinka1300 to have mind ofc1300 casta1340 studya1375 delivera1382 to chew the cudc1384 to take advisementa1393 stema1400 compassc1400 advisec1405 deliberc1405 to make it wisec1405 to take deliberationc1405 enter?a1413 riddlec1426 hovec1440 devise?c1450 to study by (also in) oneself?c1450 considerc1460 porec1500 regard1523 deliberate1543 to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546 contemplate1560 consult1565 perpend1568 vise1568 to consider of1569 weigh1573 ruminate1574 dascanc1579 to lay to (one's) heart1588 pondera1593 debate1594 reflect1596 comment1597 perponder1599 revolvea1600 rumine1605 consider on, upon1606 to think twice1623 reflex1631 spell1645 ponderatea1652 to turn about1725 to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736 to wake over1771 incubatea1847 mull1857 fink1888 1597 [see commenting n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1602 Returne fr. Parnassus (Arb.) iii. v. 46 He doubles griefe that comments on a wo. Derivatives ˈcommented adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [adjective] > furnished with comments or notes glozed1393 glossed1605 annoted1776 annotated1786 footnoted1894 commented1963 1963 Language 39 242 This commented anthology. commenting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning mentionc1300 remembrancea1393 meaninga1400 mention-making1534 mentioning1565 commemoration1576 commenting1597 voicinga1626 memoration1627 citation1640 naming1677 observing1719 commentation1833 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > often unfavourable commenting1597 criticism1607 censurea1616 judgementalism1950 stick1956 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > writing commentaries commenting1597 commentating1794 commentation1833 the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > commenting or mentioning commenting1711 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [adjective] > often unfavourable critical1565 critic1596 commenting1711 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iii. 51 Come I haue heard that feareful commenting, Is leaden seruitour to dull delaie. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4 The shallow commenting of Scholasticks and Canonists. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 177 Matters not set down in it, or ambiguously..understood, and by Appendixes and Commenting supposed. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 269 The criticizing or commenting Practice. 1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. 237 A commenting literature, and a second-hand philosophy. Draft additions June 2015 transitive. Computing to comment out: to make (part of a computer program) into a comment (typically by preceding or enclosing it with a delimiter character or characters such as // or #) so that the computer ignores it when running the program. ΚΠ 1978 Bell. Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 57 2017 Comments do not nest, so an effort to ‘comment out’ a section of code will fail if that section contains a comment. 1992 PC Mag. 16 June 351/3 You can use this technique to comment out any line. 2014 M. Bates Interfacing PIC Microcontrollers (ed. 2) iii. 76 Sections of the source code can be commented out (; at the start of the line) to assist in debugging by disabling selected program sections. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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