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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commentator \Com"men*ta`tor\, n. [L. commentator: cf. F. commentateur.] One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.
The commentator's professed object is to explain, to
enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true.
--Whewell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "writer of commentaries," agent noun in Latin form from comment or commentary (Latin commentator meant "inventor, author"). Middle English also had a noun commentate, attested from early 15c. Meaning "writer of notes or expository comments" is from 1640s; sense of "one who gives commentary" (originally in sports) is from 1928.\n\n"Well, Jem, what is a commentator?["]
--"Why," was Jem's reply, "I suppose it must be the commonest of all taturs." ["Smart Sayings of Bright Children," collected by Howard Paul, 1886] \n
Wiktionary
n. A person who comments; especially someone who is paid to give his/her opinions in the media about current affairs, sports, etc.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A commentator is a person who comments or expresses an opinion on a subject.
Specific commentators may include:
- A pundit, who offers to mass media their opinion or commentary on a particular subject area
- A political or social commentator, who practices advocacy journalism by adopting a non-objective viewpoint for some social or political purpose
- A biblical commentator, who offers comments on the Bible
- A sports commentator, who gives a running commentary of a sports game or event
- A color commentator, who specifically provides expert analysis and background information during a sports game or event in real time
Commentator or commentators may also refer to:
- Postglossator or commentator, a member of a European legal school which arose in France in the fourteenth century
- Averroes (1126-1198), Muslim polymath and philosopher known as "The Commentator"
- Commentator (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse
- " The Commentators", a 1985 UK hit single/parody by the impressionist Rory Bremner
Commentator (foaled March 27, 2001), is an American Thoroughbred race horse by the stallion Distorted Humor, sire of 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide. Like Funny Cide, Commentator is a New York-bred as well as a gelding. Distorted Humor also sired Hystericalady.
Commentator's dam, Outsource, was a daughter of Storm Bird, at two a champion in both England and Ireland and a stamina-producing sire. Storm Bird, by Northern Dancer, also sired Storm Cat and Summer Squall. Outsource was born small and deformed so she never raced or was trained. Instead she was bred to Distorted Humor at only two years of age, and the result was Commentator, making Outsource one of the youngest mares ever to produce a Grade I winner. In 2002, Outsource was purchased in foal to Chief Seattle by Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones of Airdrie Stud near Midway, Kentucky for $25,000 at the Keeneland January mixed sale. She has a yearling full sister to Commentator, and delivered another Distorted Humor filly on February 16, 2008.
Bred by Michael Martinez in New York, Commentator went for $45,000 as a weanling (hip # 3230) in the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. As a yearling, his price was $135,000 when he went to Tracy Farmer, who still owns him. From the beginning, he was trained by Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito.
Eight years old in 2009, the gelding made only 24 lifetime starts due to several small injuries (emerging from his races with foot problems and operated on for cannon-bone fracture injuries). Zito said of Commentator, “There's no speed like him. Who in their right mind would go with that horse? Who could? Is there a faster horse in the world?”
At three, Commentator won the seven- furlong Perryville Stakes, setting a track record of 1:25.19. At four, on August 5, 2005, he went wire to wire in the Grade I nine-furlong Whitney Handicap, beating that year’s American Horse of the Year Saint Liam. 32,287 people crowded onto the Saratoga Race Course to watch Commentator, ridden by Gary Stevens, set the pace, then seem to tire as Saint Liam made his move. But Commentator dug in, beating Saint Liam to the finish wire. At five, he won the Mugatea Stakes at Belmont Park and at six, he placed in the Tom Fool Handicap, then took the Richmond Runner Stakes for New York–breds by 11 and a quarter lengths. In the Richmond Runner, he ran 6 ½ furlongs in 1:15.69.
On October 27, 2007, entered in the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Monmouth Park, Commentator finished seventh on a very “sloppy track.” In January 2008, he won a Gulfstream Park allowance race in a 14 ½ length romp that set a track record. Under jockey John Velazquez, he went 1:33:71 for a mile on the “fast” track.
Commentator, again ridden by Velazquez, won the Grade II Richter Scale Breeders' Cup Sprint Championship Handicap on March 9, 2008, by 13 ¾ lengths, Pushed by Elite Squadron through early fractions of 22 seconds and 45.04, he led by five lengths at the top of the lane and then increased his lead with every stride. Track announcer Larry Colmus called, "Here comes Commentator, the fastest horse in America." Asked to comment on that call, Zito said, "Not only is that plausible, it has the added advantage of maybe being true." Commentator covered the Richter Scale's seven furlongs in 1:23.23.
On May 26, 2008, he ran second in the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park. On July 26, 2008, he took his second Whitney Handicap wire-to-wire, at age 7 becoming the second-oldest horse to win that race. ( Kelso won it at age 8 in 1965.) The race was run in deep mud after a deluge of rain at Saratoga. Earning a 120 Beyer Speed Figure, Commentator, leading all the way and winning by 4¾ lengths, came home almost spotless. With that win, he gained an automatic entry into the 2008 Breeders' Cup Classic.
On September 20, 2008, Commentator won the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs by a record 14 lengths. He was hand ridden throughout the stretch. The Mass Cap win carried an automatic entry into the Breeders' Cup Classic, which Commentator already had earned from his win in the 2008 Whitney. Zito expressed a slight reluctance to ship Commentator to California's synthetic surface for the Breeders' Cup, to be run at Santa Anita in 2008.
Commentator’s average winning margin in his 14 career victories is over 10 lengths. Over the years, he's won by margins of 7 lengths three times, 8 lengths, 9¾ lengths, 10½ lengths, 11¼ lengths, 13¾ lengths, 14 lengths twice, and 16½ lengths. He's also earned Beyer Speed Figures of 119, 120, and 123.
Of all horses racing in 2008 ( Big Brown, Curlin, Zenyatta, etc.), Commentator had the highest recorded Beyer Speed Figure both under and over a mile.
Commentator was a finalist for the Eclipse Award's American Champion Older Male Horse for 2008. Curlin took the award. In 2007 and 2008, Commentator was New York Horse of Year.
On June 12, 2009, 8-year-old Commentator easily took the Kashatreya Stakes at Belmont Park by seven lengths as a prep towards again winning the Whitney Handicap. This win raised his bankroll to over $1,900,000 and kept him unbeaten in his six races against New York State-breds.
Usage examples of "commentator".
The early radio commentators had had to invent a way to do what had never been done before: to speak out the news over the airwaves, arranging the information in time, not in space as print journalists arranged it, and to do so in tones and accents that would make them seem caring and aware.
Derrida, and while I do not recommend that you attempt to tackle the whole book at this stage, you could put yourself considerably ahead of many commentators and critics by acquiring a detailed knowledge of the section of the book in which this remark occurs, using the intensive reading technique I describe in the Introduction.
First, here is that astringent graphic commentator on the contemporary mores and folkways of these United States, the inimitable Joe Chuck.
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and Israeli commentator Meron Benvenisti has called a Herrenvolk democracy, with power and status held by a ruling ethnicity, corresponded to a core part of the Jacksonian ethos in the United States, at least until the 1960s.
Several of the signatories to this document had joined with neoconservative and other right-wing Republican commentators in supporting the Iraq War.
Locria and Plato his Commentator wrote of the Soul of the World, developing the doctrine of Pythagoras, who thought, says Cicero, that God is the Universal Soul, resident everywhere in nature, and of which our Souls are but emanations.
Look up that raciest of commentators, and see what he there says about the deliberate tears of the captives in Babylon.
There had been only minor interest from the zines, whose commentators asked why our radionics were so inaccurate.
He did not share the dislike of Aristotle manifested by most of the humanists, for he shrewdly suspected that what was offensive in the Stagyrite was due more to his scholastic translators and commentators than to himself.
The visions of Ezekiel, by the river Chebar, and of the new Symbolic Temple, are equally mysterious expressions, veiled by figures of the enigmatic dogmas of the Kabalah, and their symbols are as little understood by the Commentators, as those of Free Masonry.
Our German commentator has collected the passages of the Theodosian Code which relate to this class of officers, and has shown that on account of their rapacity and extortion their office was subjected to a continual process of degradation.
Weather commentators tried to maintain the tradition of wackiness the job is known for, but could not keep out of the proceedings an element of surrender, as if before some first hard intelligence of the advent of an agent of rapture.
Proper Meaning of the Four Books as determined by Chu Hsi, Compared with, and Illustrated from, other Commentators.
Clemens and his wife, had converted to Judaism is one obvious interpretation of the source, a view held by some commentators, including E.
Some commentators suggest that there is something peculiarly male about scepticism.