annotate
verb
an·no·tate
ˈa-nə-ˌtāt 
annotated; annotating
: 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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Readers can annotate ebooks in color (pink, yellow, blur, and orange), but stylus support would have made this super simple.
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Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The code labeler adds comments to the code, trying to annotate what is going on so that the AI can more deeply analyze the code.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Here, Butterworth shares annotated script pages from that scene and breaks it down for us.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
That same year, Cornell released Merlin Sound ID, which was originally trained on around two hundred and fifty hours of bird sounds, as well as on background noises (whistling wind, passing cars), all manually annotated by experts.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The code labeler adds comments to the code, trying to annotate what is going on so that the AI can more deeply analyze the code.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Here, Butterworth shares annotated script pages from that scene and breaks it down for us.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
That same year, Cornell released Merlin Sound ID, which was originally trained on around two hundred and fifty hours of bird sounds, as well as on background noises (whistling wind, passing cars), all manually annotated by experts.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Annotate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annotate. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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annotate
verb
an·no·tate
ˈa-nə-ˌtāt
annotated; annotating
: to make or write an annotation
: to make or write annotations for
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