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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin commentum, from comminisci (“to invent”).

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comment (plural comments)

  1. A spoken remark.
  2. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.

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spoken remark
programming: remark not affecting behavior
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comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

  1. (transitive) To remark.
    • 2003 7/05, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, NPR_Saturday:
      I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game
    • 2009,, John M. Kang, “Manliness and the Constitution”, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 32, number 1, page 261: 
      As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."
  2. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
  3. (software) To insert comments into source code.

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programming: insert comments

[edit] Translations

to remark
programming: to insert comments
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[edit] French

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[edit] Etymology

From comme + -ment.[1]

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comment

  1. how

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  1. ^ 2009, Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland, “muid I 4”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert:

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comment

  1. how (in a given manner)
    • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:
      Comment Epistemon qui avoit la teste tranchée, fut guery habillement par Panurge.
      How Epistemon who had his head cut off was adroitly cured by Panurge
      .
  2. (interrogative) how (in what manner)

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comment

  1. Alternative form of comant.

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[edit] Etymology

From English comment.

[edit] Noun

comment m. (plural comments)

  1. (Internet slang) comment, remark

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