to annotate
- verb
- /ˈænəˌteɪt/
- As part of the assignment, the students were instructed to annotate the text with their thoughts and observations.
- annotated bibliography
- annotating texts
- annotate articles
He had his he had his team annotate and cross reference every ghost story.
- He had his he had his team annotate and cross reference every ghost story.
- Of course, when you're doing the work, you don't really annotate as thoroughly as you might do.
- I really want to reread this like today and annotate it.
- Yo, but don't you, you annotate, right?
- It's based off of books that the author thinks Belle would have liked and she kind of annotates quotes of them.
- I provide so much less feedback on videos today compared to when I first started using this frame IO workflow to like annotate the videos.
- So the process is, you know, deposit, curate, annotate, make available.
Examples
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The students were invited to annotate the text as they read it the first time.
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Writers upload PDFs of scholarly journal articles to Qiqqa, then highlight and annotate these articles as they read them.
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When students annotate a text, they have sources that they can use to support their claims.
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Students are asked to read a fictional story, annotate it, and answer four questions based on these standards.
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Students' ability to annotate was the key to their success in this unit of inquiry.
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Students were encouraged to annotate and then use their notes in discussions.
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The way the student has annotated the text demonstrates his ability to engage with it.
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The Astronomy Center will collect, annotate, organize, and deliver this material.
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First, existing studies that include only place names must be annotated with geographic coordinates.
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One way is to create and share annotated bibliographies that depict quality multicultural literature.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
To write notes in a text to explain words
To explain a word or phrase in a text
To add a note at the bottom of a page that gives extra information or a source
How Detailed
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Etymology
The word annotate comes from the Latin parts ad- meaning 'to' and nota meaning 'note' or 'mark', so it literally means 'to add a note'. Think of annotating as writing small notes in the margin to explain or comment on a text.