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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commentary
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 intended this to be a letter, but I see that it has turned into a political commentary.
▪ There was thus a combination of personal case-history and more general political commentary.
running
▪ Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.
▪ Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary.
▪ It becomes a running commentary from navigator to driver.
▪ Attending is simply describing what the child is doing, rather like a running commentary on the activity.
▪ She kept up a running commentary as she chased him 50 yards across Lawrence Road before collapsing in a pool of blood.
▪ His running commentary was oft-repeated, I guess.
▪ This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
▪ Don't keep up a running commentary.
sad
▪ It is a sad commentary to note such parochial schools within our people.
▪ The experience of some Sunday morning services in competition with golf is a sad commentary on the bending of principle to person.
social
▪ One of my favorite forums for social commentary is Peanuts.
▪ One of the limitations of books of purely social commentary is that they are long on analysis and short on action.
■ NOUN
radio
▪ Jackknifed over the whisky bottle, Barry listened to the radio commentary in closing-time light.
▪ So why am I disturbed that Temple University decided last month to cancel a series of public radio commentaries by Abu-Jamal?
▪ Billy Bremner does Radio 5 and other radio commentaries.
▪ Now it would command television crews, gangs of itinerant Press men and jolly serious ball by ball radio commentary.
▪ One is to turn the sound down and tune into the radio commentary.
■ VERB
give
▪ He gives a commentary as he walks down.
▪ More than 15, 000 people in the Alamodome giving the usual long-range commentary: Ooooh.
▪ Teachers of reading will prefer games that give a running commentary.
provide
▪ Evening greyhounds with Ladbrokes telephone services provide live commentaries as well as results at selected tracks.
▪ For some Ajdabiyans the cases of Carnation Milk provided an amusing commentary on official inconsistency without having any practical consequences.
▪ Anna Adams provides written commentary in prose and verse, and Norman contributes nine watercolours.
▪ Once again the Preface provides a useful commentary by the author on his previous works and the reason for promoting the current one.
▪ This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
write
▪ Yet he continued to write critical commentaries for three years after the handover without apparent incident.
▪ He followed events closely in his native land, writing frequent commentaries for the press there.
▪ It is, after all, the focus of much research, writing and commentary about health and social services provision.
▪ When, however, Origen himself came to write a commentary on Matthew 19: 12 he strenuously opposed a literal exegesis.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
running commentary
▪ Attending is simply describing what the child is doing, rather like a running commentary on the activity.
▪ Don't keep up a running commentary.
▪ Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.
▪ His running commentary was oft-repeated, I guess.
▪ It becomes a running commentary from navigator to driver.
▪ Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary.
▪ This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Garfield does political commentary on National Public Radio.
▪ Joe Garagiola will provide the commentary tonight on Channel 7.
▪ Now let's go over to our London studio for commentary on the wrestling.
▪ Sarah was looking out the window and giving us a running commentary on what was happening in the street.
▪ Schuler will do the World Series commentary.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between commercials, they squeezed in the quick commentary and interviews many viewers had already heard elsewhere.
▪ I could hear the commentary saying he wasn't going to stop.
▪ Irving set up lots of avenues for employee commentary and recommendations on how the change was going.
▪ Kustow was talking, his deep voice providing a commentary on the proceedings.
▪ The changing and temporal character of all existing things is prominent in the commentary although it stands in opposition to Zeus.
▪ The latter understanding Is preferred in this commentary.
▪ There are 3 great sets of commentaries on Aristotle: the neo-Aristotelian, the neo-Platonic and the Byzantine.
▪ This structure of absence and intrusion corresponds to de Man's blend of quotation, paraphrase and commentary in Allegories of Reading.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commentary

Commentary \Com"men*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Commentaries. [L. commentarius, commentarium, note book, commentary: cf. F. commentaire. See Comment, v. i.]

  1. A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.

    This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary.
    --Hallam.

  2. A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commentary

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. Originally in English as an adjective (early 15c.).

Wiktionary
commentary

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 Commentaries on the Gallic War. 3 An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.

WordNet
commentary

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]

Wikipedia
Commentary

Commentary or commentaries may refer to:

Commentary (magazine)

Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, and politics, as well as social and cultural issues.

Founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945, it was edited by Norman Podhoretz from 1960 to 1995. Besides its strong coverage of cultural issues, Commentary provided a strong voice for the anti-Stalinist left. Podhoretz, originally a liberal Democrat turned neoconservative, moved the magazine to the right and toward the Republican Party in the 1970s and 1980s.

Commentary has been described by Benjamin Balint as the "contentious magazine that transformed the Jewish left into the neoconservative right", while, according to historian Richard Pells, "no other journal of the past half century has been so consistently influential, or so central to the major debates that have transformed the political and intellectual life of the United States." According to Commentary itself, " Irving Kristol once called [it] the most influential magazine in Jewish history".

Commentary (philology)

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 is to elucidate the language of the text and the specific culture that produced it, both of which may be foreign to the reader. Such a commentary usually takes the form of footnotes, endnotes, or separate text cross-referenced by line, paragraph or page.

Means of providing commentary on the language of the text include notes on textual criticism, syntax and semantics, and the analysis of rhetoric, literary tropes, and style. The aim is to remove, lessen or point out linguistic obstacles to reading and understanding the text.

If a text is historical, or is produced within a culture assumed to be of limited familiarity to a reader, a broader range of issues may require elucidation. These include, but are by no means limited to, biographical data pertaining to the author, historical events, customs and laws, technical terminology and facts of daily life, religious beliefs and philosophical perspectives, literary allusions, geographical settings, and cross-references to related passages in the same work, other works by the author, or sources used by the author.

Some commentaries from Classical Antiquity or the Middle Ages (more strictly referred to as scholia) are a valuable source of information otherwise unknown, including references to works that are now lost. Jerome provides a list of several commentaries that were in use during his days as a student in the 350s A.D. One of the most used of the ancient scholia today is that of Servius on Vergil’s Aeneid, written in the 4th century.

The production of commentaries began to flourish in the 16th century as part of the humanist project to recover the texts of antiquity, with its related boom in publishing. In the modern era, a commentary differs from an annotated edition aimed at students or the casual reader in that it attempts to address an exhaustive range of scholarly questions, many of which may be of concern or interest primarily to specialists. The commentator may take a position on variant readings of the text or on a point of scholarly dispute, but arguments are usually succinct, a paragraph or less than a page in length.

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.