Annotative
to supply with critical or explanatory ; comment upon in :
to annotate the works of Shakespeare.
to make or .
Historical Examples
Good specimen of the “annotative” style with a parenthetic comment.
Cyropaedia Xenophon
verb
to supply (a written work, such as an ancient text) with critical or explanatory notes
v.
1733, from Latin annotatus, past participle of annotare “to note down” (see annotation). Related: Annotated; annotating. Not in Johnson’s “Dictionary,” but used therein in defining comment. Form annote is recorded from mid-15c. Related: Annotated; annotating.
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- Annotation
a critical or explanatory note or body of notes added to a text. the act of . (def 1). Abbreviation: annot. Historical Examples Sippi, agreeably to the early French annotation of the word, signifies a river. Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft There […]
- Annulate
formed of ringlike segments, as an annelid worm. having rings or ringlike bands. Historical Examples Cross rings may or may not be present, and the cup is either smooth or annulate. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Gary N. Calkins Abdomen not annulate nor prolonged behind; eight legs in the adult stage. Handbook of Medical Entomology […]
- Annulation
formed of ringlike segments, as an annelid worm. having rings or ringlike bands. Historical Examples There is very little appearance of annulation of the stem, and no evidence of the “stem increasing in diameter distally.” Journal of Entomology and Zoology: Volume 6, Number 4, December 1914 Various noun the formation of rings a ringlike formation […]
- Annulet
Also called bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet. Architecture. an encircling band, molding, or fillet, as on the shaft of a column. Entomology. a ring, usually colored, around or on the surface of an organ. Heraldry. a ring, represented as a voided roundel, used especially as the cadence mark of a fifth son. Historical Examples The […]
- Annuli
a ring; a ringlike part, band, or space. Geometry. the space between two concentric circles on a plane. the veil remnant on a mushroom stalk. a growth ring, as on the cross section of a tree trunk, that can be used to estimate age. Historical Examples This corresponds to the usual presence (in the Rhynchobdellidae) […]