ANNOTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annotate mean? 

• ANNOTATE (verb)
  The verb ANNOTATE has 2 senses:

1. add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments

2. provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

  Familiarity information: ANNOTATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNOTATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they annotate    ... he / she / it annotates   
Past simple: annotated   
Past participle: annotated   
-ing form: annotating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

annotate; footnote

Context example:

The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel

Hypernyms (to "annotate" is one way to...):

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he annotate his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

annotation (the act of adding notes)

annotation (a comment or instruction (usually added))

annotator (a commentator who writes notes to a text)

note (a comment or instruction (usually added))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

annotate; comment; gloss

Context example:

He annotated on what his teacher had written

Hypernyms (to "annotate" is one way to...):

interpret; rede (give an interpretation or explanation to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

note (a comment or instruction (usually added))

 Context examples 

A system provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information for automated detection of homologs among the annotated genes of several completely sequenced eukaryotic genomes.

(HomoloGene, NCI Thesaurus)

It describes a thing found, measured and graphically annotated on an image or images from the same series.

(Image Annotation Statement, NCI Thesaurus)

A tab-delimited, spreadsheet-based format that can be used for annotating and communicating microarray data in a MIAME (Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment) compliant fashion.

(MAGE-TAB, NCI Thesaurus)

An annotated assembly of genome sequences created by the assimilation of data pieces from numerous sources.

(Genome Assembly Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)

GenBank records are annotated using a standard set of biological terms and show these annotations in a Feature Table.

(GenBank, NCI Thesaurus)

A collection of Reporter or CompositeSequence Design Elements, annotated through the association to BioSequence.

(Composite Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)

A multidisciplinary facility using various genomic and/or epigenomic analysis technologies for the systematic, high-resolution, comprehensive characterization of cancer-related genomic alterations in biomolecules obtained from highly-annotated, quality-controlled human cancer biospecimens.

(Cancer Genome Characterization Center, NCI Thesaurus)

There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had to eat as he had never eaten before, to handle strange tools, to glance surreptitiously about and learn how to accomplish each new thing, to receive the flood of impressions that was pouring in upon him and being mentally annotated and classified; to be conscious of a yearning for her that perturbed him in the form of a dull, aching restlessness; to feel the prod of desire to win to the walk in life whereon she trod, and to have his mind ever and again straying off in speculation and vague plans of how to reach to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.

(GenBank, NCI Thesaurus)