annotate

verb an·no·tate \ ˈa-nə-ˌtāt \

Updated on: 19 May 2018

Definition of annotate

annotated; annotating

intransitive verb

: to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment

transitive verb

: to make or furnish annotations (see annotation 1) for (something, such as a literary work or subject)

annotated his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy

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annotative

play \-ˌtā-tiv\ adjective

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annotator

play \-ˌtā-tər\ noun

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Examples of annotate in a Sentence

He annotated the text at several places.

Recent Examples of annotate from the Web

All the albums are annotated, with quotes from the artist and others about the music, chart positions, brief descriptions of the recording process and a number of official music videos that were previously held back from major services like YouTube.

— gil kaufman, Billboard, "The 7 Coolest Things We Found on the Prince Estate Website," 23 Apr. 2018
To ensure that their analysis held up in general — not just on claims that drew the attention of fact-checking groups — the researchers enlisted students to annotate as true or false more than 13,000 other stories that circulated on Twitter.

— steve lohr, New York Times, "It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame.," 8 Mar. 2018
Two of the most difficult things about training an AI in this fashion are generating a sufficiently large dataset and getting people to annotate that dataset.

— robbie gonzalez, WIRED, "AI Learns a New Trick: Measuring Brain Cells," 12 Apr. 2018
Apple execs danced around the auditorium stage showing how to annotate digital books and create doodles using the Pencil.

— arielle pardes, WIRED, "How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom," 28 Mar. 2018
For that app, Modiface manually annotated 22,000 facial images to create the experience.

— ashley carman, The Verge, "L’Oreal acquires Modiface, a major AR beauty company," 16 Mar. 2018
Urban events as minor as a Dubliner out for an afternoon stroll—let alone something as catastrophic as a terrorist attack—can be rewound, studied, and rationally annotated.

— geoff manaugh, The Atlantic, "The City That Remembers Everything," 23 Feb. 2018
Performances are annotated by images of actual letters, maps and scores.

— j. hoberman, New York Times, "50 Years On, This Film Still Brings Clarity to Bach’s Glorious Compositions," 1 Mar. 2018
People use Snapchat to talk to their friends, sending photos and videos that may be annotated with fun masks and stickers.

— bloomberg, latimes.com, "Snap is said to skip bonuses and struggle with low morale after hard year," 1 Mar. 2018

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