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annotate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb annotate has 2 senses
- annotate(v = verb.creation) footnote - add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel" is one way to compose, indite, pen, write
- annotate(v = verb.communication) comment, gloss - provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" is one way to interpret, rede
Derived forms noun annotation2, noun annotation1, noun annotator1, noun note7
Sample sentence:
Did he annotate his major works over a short period of time?
Derived form noun note7
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
annotate, v. t. [L. annotatus; p. p. of annotare to annotate; ad + notare to mark, nota mark. See Note, n. ].
To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon. [1913 Webster]
annotate, v. i.
To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
annotate, v.tr. add explanatory notes to (a book, document, etc.).
Derivative
annotatable adj. annotation n. annotative adj. annotator n.
Etymology
L annotare (as AD-, nota mark)
ROGET THESAURUS
annotate
Interpretation
VB interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render, do into, turn into, transfuse the sense of, find out, 1 the meaning of, read, spell out, make out, decipher, unravel, disentangle, find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve, read between the lines, account for, find the cause, tell the cause of, throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon, clear up, clarify, elucidate, illustrate, exemplify, unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate, popularize, take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense, understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand.
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