comment
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈkɒmɛnt//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈkɔmɛnt//
- États-Unis//ˈkɑmɛnt//
- Australie//ˈkɔment//
- Nouvelle-Zélande//ˈkɒment//
A spoken or written remark.
nom
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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.
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).
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The act of commenting.
People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.
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The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
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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.
Étymologie
From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).
verbe
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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 known your life would not be worth a curse.”
"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
As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."
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To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
He commented about your proposal.
The movie comments on race relations.
We will first comment on the atypical flutter of our patient and then on the concept of opsoclonus/flutter of our patient and then on the concept of flutter upon convergence.
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obsolèteTo comment or remark on.
[…]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof
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To insert comments into (source code).
I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
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To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.
Étymologie
From Middle English commenten, comenten, from Latin commentārī (“to consider thoroughly, think over, discuss, write upon”).
Formes
- pluriel
- comments
- passé
- commented
- participe passé
- commented
- participe présent
- commenting
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- comments