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Definition of to comment in English English dictionary: To insert comments into source code; To make remarks or notes; To remark; A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program; {n} an explanation, notes; {v} to explain, gloss, write notes; Text that documents or explains a program In free source form, a comment begins with an exclamation point (!), unless it appears in a Hollerith or character constant In fixed and tab source form, a comment begins with a letter C or an asterisk (*) in column 1 A comment can also begin with an exclamation point anywhere in a source line (except in a Hollerith or character constant) or in column 6 of a fixed-format line The comment extends from the exclamation point to the end of the line The compiler does not process comments, but shows them in program listings See also compiler directive; To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; often followed by on or upon; {i} remark; explanatory note; explanation; response; A language construct for the inclusion of explanatory text in a program, the execution of which remains unaffected; Tag: The text present within the  tags in a web page Most search engines will ignore the text within the Comment Tags; A comment is text in a program which is intended only for humans reading the program, and which is marked specially so that it will be ignored when the program is loaded or compiled Emacs offers special commands for creating, aligning and killing comments See section U 5 Manipulating Comments; a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account"; A delimited string of characters, which is treated as white space syntactically Comments are intended to provide explanatory information [641 0-B-1]; A line type in the LDraw file format which allows the author to insert a comment Comment lines are deonted by a 0 in the line type column For more details, read the LDraw file format speficiations (URL); Text added to code by a programmer that explains how the code works In Visual Basic Scripting Edition, a comment line generally starts with an apostrophe ('), or you can use the keyword Rem followed by a space; Tag: The text present within the  tags in a web page While most search engines will ignore the text within the Comment Tags, some, like Excite, will index the text present within them Hence, using Comment Tags containing keywords can improve the search engine ranking of the page in Excite for those keywords; a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"; The HTML  tags are used to hide text from browsers Some search engines ignore text between these symbols but others index such text as if the comment tags were not there Comments are often used to hide javascript code from non-compliant browsers, and sometimes (notably on Excite) to provide invisible keywords to some search engines; Comments are regions of text and/or HTML tags that are ignored by the browser Any text between the opening and closing comment delimeters will not appear on the screen; Text in an XML document that is ignored, unless the parser is specifically told to recognize it A comment is enclosed in a comment tag, like this: ; The Comment field is available for your use when entering requests The information in the Comment field will appear on all reports ordered Use it as a note or memo to yourself Enter whatever information is helpful - policy number, for example Or, a permanent default Comment may be set for each registered user in their User Info settings; A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc; In FrontPage, text that can be viewed in Page view that will not be displayed in a Web browser Comment text appears purple in Page view and is used to insert notes to authors and editors during the construction of the page Site visitors can reveal comments by viewing the source HTML of the page containing the comments; explain or interpret something make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague; In a program, explanatory text that is ignored by the compiler In Java programs, comments are delimited using // or /* */; People say `no comment' as a way of refusing to answer a question, usually when it is asked by a journalist. No comment. I don't know anything. W3S2 to express an opinion about someone or something = remark comment on; Comments can occur as content of elements or within the prolog They cannot span element boundaries Comments are of the form:  They may NOT contain "--" Comments do not nest, so be careful what you comment out AElfred appears to recognise parameter-entity references within comments and these are best avoided if this parser is being used Comment (DOM) in Xerces see comment [in XML spec]; Usually a text string that is entered in a field by the user Comments are attached to a particular record or data element For example, in Marks Reporting, a report card comment may be attached to a specific grade a student receives for a class Also, global comments may be pre-defined and printed on all report cards for a specific term Comments may also called "notes" when they appear in other applications A comments or notes field is often provided as an area where the user can enter anecdotal information about a specific record; {f} make a remark; write an explanatory note; explain; A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk; Indicates additional comments about the car, attached to the end of the roster table; A comment is something that you say which expresses your opinion of something or which gives an explanation of it. He made his comments at a news conference in Amsterdam There's been no comment so far from police about the allegations Lady Thatcher, who is abroad, was not available for comment; If you comment on something, you give your opinion about it or you give an explanation for it. Stratford police refuse to comment on whether anyone has been arrested You really can't comment till you know the facts `I'm always happy with new developments,' he commented Stuart commented that this was very true; explanation; annotation; exposition; In a web page editor, text that can be viewed that will not be displayed in a Web browser Comment text appears purple and is used to insert notes to authors and editors during the construction of the page Site visitors can reveal comments by viewing the source HTML of the page containing the comments; This is some descriptive text that a programmer includes in their source code so that other people can read and understand what they were doing It is a means of documenting the functionality of a program A multi-line comment is a comment that spans more than more line of text; explain or interpret something; A remark in source code which does not directly affect the behavior of the program; To comment on; The default comment in a FITS card This is only a default and a more appropriate and detailed comment may be used; In an application, explanatory text that is ignored by the compiler In Java applications, comments are delimited using //or /* */; These are put into source code by programmers in order to better explain what the code does When source code is compiled into assembly language, all comments are removed Comments only describe code, there is no action associated with them Since comments are removed by the compiler, they can be written in plain English (or any other natural language you choose!); a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"; provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written"; a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" explain or interpret something make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague; A spoken remark; In Pascal, explanatory text or other information included in a program to aid readability by a person but which is ignored by the compiler; make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague"; If an event or situation is a comment on something, it reveals something about that thing, usually something bad. He argues that family problems are typically a comment on some unresolved issues in the family. = reflection; mc