Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.

    She added an annotation in the margin to clarify the text.

    Kommentar

    коммента́рийkommentárij, примеча́ниеprimečánije, поясне́ниеpojasnénije

  2. (countable, uncountable)A comment added to a text.

    make an annotation

    The manuscript was filled with helpful annotations.

    Anmerkung, Bemerkung

    коммента́рийkommentárij, примеча́ниеprimečánije, поясне́ниеpojasnénije

    a comment or instruction (usually added)

  3. (countable, uncountable)The process of writing such comment or commentary.

    Kommentierung

    анноти́рованиеannotírovanije, комменти́рованиеkommentírovanije

  4. (countable, uncountable)Metadata added to a document or program.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Don't add annotations.

    Не додавайте анотації. — deniko

    ruНе добавляйте комментарии. — shanghainese

    deFüge keine Anmerkungen hinzu. — MUIRIEL

  2. Please do not add annotations in sentences.

  3. Don't include annotations as part of sentences.

    ruНе включайте в свои предложения аннотации. — Ooneykcall

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · _undertoad · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. This book has so many annotations in it.

    ruВ этой книге столько примечаний! — marafon

  5. By opening that old book, she discovered annotations written by an unknown hand.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
critical or explanatory commentary or analysis:
process of writing a comment or commentary:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
critical or explanatory commentary or analysis:
comment added to a text:
process of writing a comment or commentary:

Origin

From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from ann

From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from annotātus, perfect passive participle of annotō (“note down, remark”). Equivalent to annotate + -ion.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: annotations
Singularannotation
Pluralannotations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
annotation — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto