annotate

verb

an·no·tate | \ˈa-nə-ˌtāt

annotated; annotating

Definition of annotate

: to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment

: to make or furnish annotations (see annotation sense 1) for (something, such as a literary work or subject) annotated his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy

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He annotated the text at several places.

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The brief is annotated, pointing out from the Axanar trailer where each copyright element first appeared in the series. — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, "Paramount and CBS Attack 'Star Trek' Fan Film Because Klingon Is Copyrighted," 14 Mar. 2016 The Fix has annotated a transcript provided by Bloomberg Government, using Genius. — Washington Post, "Trump’s optimistic news conference after meeting with Kim Jong Un, annotated," 12 June 2018 In the American cockroach, Dr. Li and collaborators annotated thousands of genes, including more than 1,000 thought to help the insect detect chemical cues from the environment. — Steph Yin, New York Times, "In a Cockroach Genome, ‘Little Mighty’ Secrets," 20 Mar. 2018 One thing that teachers, librarians and inquisitive students love about Mr. Freedman’s books is that most are thoroughly annotated, so that the curious can follow his research path and delve deeper into the subject. — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, "Russell Freedman, 88, Writer of History for Young Readers, Dies," 29 Mar. 2018 In a project intended to help veterans with PTSD, the Department of Defense paid for medical staff to interview patients with psychological problems and annotate audio files of the data to mark changes in emotional state. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "This Call May Be Monitored for Tone and Emotion," 19 Mar. 2018 That would require something more than just the long letters reproduced here, occasionally annotated with italicized commentary. — Kai Bird, New York Times, "Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters," 17 Apr. 2018 Two copies, heavily annotated, were found in Hitler’s bunker. — The Economist, "The welfare state needs updating," 12 July 2018 Densepose, as it is called, was trained with 50,000 images of people hand-annotated with 5 million points. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "Some Startups Use Fake Data to Train AI," 25 Apr. 2018

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