Look up: Commentary

1. commentary
   Description or evaluation of an event or piece of work. In literary terms, a commentary can range from being a series of explanatory notes on a whole work (sometimes as notes alongside the text, but...
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2. Commentary
   a set of notes which explain, or give further detail or information on a text. For example, a commentary may explain imagery in a poem or section of prose; alternatively, it may draw viewers' attention to particular aspects of a piece of film. The purpose of a commentary is to deepen comprehension.
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3. commentary
   Report prepared for the board of directors,for companies which must be audited by particularly qualified auditors,wherein the auditors comment on the conducting and the result of their examination. Category: Law
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4. Commentary
   Com'men·ta·ry noun ; plural Commentaries . [ Latin commentarius , commentarium , note book, commentary: confer French commentaire . See Comment , intransitive verb ] 1. A ser...
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5. commentary
   noun 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`
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6. Commentary
   • (v. i.) A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work. • (v. i.) A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar`s Com...
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7. Commentary
   Taking the perspective of an omniscient poet the commentator does not appear on film. S/he gives an objective opinion or description of characters or events either occurring in the film or to fill in information without wasting a great deal of film time. The commentator's voice comes from off-camera...
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8. commentary
   Description or evaluation of an event or piece of work. In literary terms, a commentary can range from being a series of explanatory notes on a whole work (sometimes as notes alongside the text, but often in an introduction or appendix), to a full-length historical narrative. In the media, a commentary is a broadcast description of an event tak...
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9. Commentary
   (magazine) `Commentary` is a monthly American magazine on politics, Judaism, social and cultural issues. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945. By 1960 its editor was Norman Podhoretz, a liberal at the time who moved sharply to the right in the 1970s and 1980s becomin...
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10. Commentary
    (philology) In philology, a `commentary` is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying volume. It may draw on methodologies of close reading and literary criticism, but its primary purpose is to elucidate the languag...
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