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verb an·no·tate \ ˈa-nə-ˌtāt \

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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He annotated the text at several places.

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In English class, for example, students reading below grade level would be assigned the same books or articles as their peers, but complicated vocabulary in the text would be annotated on their screen.

— maria danilova, Detroit Free Press, "Can computers enhance the work of teachers?," 28 Aug. 2017
The transcripts, produced by White House staff and annotated and fact-checked by my colleagues, make for absolutely surreal reading.

— ishaan tharoor, Washington Post, "Trump’s real foreign policy stops at U.S.’s borders," 4 Aug. 2017
Naturally, the results are staggering, and Lorf_Yimzo even took the time to document and annotate his epic journey.

— SI.com, "Back to the Future! Gamers Simulate 1,000 Years in Football Manager With Insane Results," 21 July 2017
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

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Origin and Etymology of annotate

Latin annotatus, past participle of annotare, from ad- + notare to mark — more at note

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ANNOTATE Defined for English Language Learners

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Definition of annotate for English Language Learners

: to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.)

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verb an·no·tate \ ˈa-nə-ˌtāt \

legal Definition of annotate

annotated; annotating

intransitive verb

:to make or write an annotation

transitive verb

:to make or write annotations for

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