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comment

/ˈkɑmɛnt/ noun B1
  1. A spoken or written remark. (countable, uncountable) · I have no comment on that.· Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
  2. The act of commenting. (uncountable)
  3. The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme. (countable, uncountable)
  4. A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code. (countable, uncountable)

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Everyone, therefore, ran to the court; some to witness the sight, others to comment upon it.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1046 · C1
And with this raillery Andrea went out, leaving the two girls a prey to their own feelings of shame, and to the comments of the crowd.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 988 · C1
The nurse, having placed the beverage prepared by the doctor within reach of the patient, and locked the door, was listening with terror to the comments of the servants in the kitchen, and storing her memory with all the horrible stories which had for some months past amused the occupants of the antechambers in the house of the king’s attorney.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 991 · C1
I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then I pocket my fee.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 20 · B2

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