annotate

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verb an·no·tate \ˈa-nə-ˌtāt\

Definition of annotate

annotated

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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

annotative

play \-ˌtā-tiv\ adjective

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

Students in the program learn to isolate and characterize bacteriophages, annotate the phage genomes, and then submit the sequences to a national database.

— zahra ahmad, Science | AAAS, "Competition helps college students find a place in science," 12 July 2017
Another winner is Who Said What, based in San Francisco, which aims to help people more easily fact-check audio and video news clips through a search tool that annotates millions of those clips.

— jeff gammage, Philly.com, "New ideas to fight fake news - and Knight money to do so," 21 June 2017
Kay Fowler, who also was at the Smithsonian, recovered Powell’s manuscripts from 1867-1880 at the ethnology bureau, and the two then collated, annotated and published them in 1971.

— alicia ault, Smithsonian, "Telling the Story of 19th-Century Native American Treasures Through Bird Feathers," 14 June 2017
Nelson Mandela annotated a copy when he was imprisoned on Robben Island for fighting apartheid in South Africa.

— michael cooper, New York Times, "Why ‘Julius Caesar’ Speaks to Politics Today. With or Without Trump.," 12 June 2017
France annotated/fact-checked the White House's promotional video on Trump's decision to leave the climate accord.

— amber phillips, Washington Post, "Sadiq Khan spat continues Trump’s bad few weeks with Europe," 6 June 2017
Historian David M. Shapard, who has devoted countless years of his life to the vast project of meticulously annotating every Jane Austen novel, is all about the details.

— moira macdonald, The Seattle Times, "Mind the ha-ha, and other gems from ‘The Annotated Mansfield Park’," 30 Apr. 2017
In the scientific chapters, which are vividly and efficiently written, Kolata carefully annotates her statements about the key scientists’ research, findings and claims.

— special to the washington post, The Denver Post, "When a genetic test can mean life or death," 6 Apr. 2017
RELATED: Gov. Mark Dayton’s 2017 State of the State address, annotatedAbout an hour after Dayton’s collapse, the governor’s chief of staff, Jaime Tincher, said the governor walked out of the Capitol and went to the Governor’s Residence in St. Paul.

— rachel e. stassen-berger, The Mercury News, "Minnesota governor collapses during State of the State address," 24 Jan. 2017

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