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A written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
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commentary
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In philology , a commentary is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying volume. It may draw on methodologies of close reading and literary criticism , but its primary purpose ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" [syn: comment ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES gave...a running commentary ▪ She gave us a running commentary on what was happening in the street. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE political ▪ Which is to say, the political commentary is a form of writing. ▪ I ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commentary \Com"men*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Commentaries . [L. commentarius, commentarium, note book, commentary: cf. F. commentaire. See Comment , v. i.] A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work. 2 A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French commentaire , or directly from Latin commentarius "notebook, annotation; diary, memoir," noun use of adjective, "relating to comments," from commentum (see comment (n.)). Perhaps the Latin noun is short for volumen commentarium ...
Usage examples of commentary.
We sit side-by-side on the sofa watching the calm, perfectly-coifed anchorperson coordinate her own commentary with cuts to correspondents in various parts of North America and abroad.
Los Angeles, who filed a lengthy and lurid commentary on the Lynch report.
Among his many writings is a translation of the entire Zohar from Aramaic to modern Hebrew, together with a detailed commentary on the text.
Probably five thousand bees had stung the polyethylene, but no more than a hundred had lost their stings - itself a commentary on the exceptional strength of the giants which would live to sting again.
Ugly suspicions and dark rumorsfed by Crush Bonbon and his outrageous, dangerous radio commentary.
It looked as though the commentary was for Brits rather than Americans.
As for Upton and other such fellows, they are merely musical chautauquans, and their tedious commentaries have little more value than the literary criticisms in the religious weeklies.
There was a screen showing a succession of faces and scenes that had somehow gotten out of sync with the commentary, so a picture of the great Willie Nelson was identified as someone called Cornpone Cawson, the Hayseed Hick.
The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and of all the dramatists, are a perfect commentary on the fashions of the day, but a knowledge of the fashions is necessary to a perfect enjoyment of the plays.
TV commentary that night featured detailed analysis by criminologists, gastroenterologists, and psychologists on the subject of vomiting in general and whether doing it in the presence of law enforcement is a reliable indicator of guilt.
LOT From preliminary transcribing, we know the scrolls include manuals of discipline, hymnbooks, Biblical commentaries, and apocalyptic writings.
He had given up hyperrealism and had gone in for social commentary in faded hues.
Sadolet was not only reputed the finest Latinist of the age, but he was the most gracious of the Roman prelates, a friend of Erasmus, an admirer of Contarini, and the author of a commentary on St.
Barnes, a standard author, whose commentaries have been adopted by the Presbyterian Board, takes the position that there can be no question but that Melchizedek was a Canaanite.
But no comparable outpouring of progun commentary can be heard in the wake of incidents such as the Carpenter family massacre.