comment, n.
1. annotation, note, footnote, scholium, gloss, marginalia, Latin,
adversaria; explanation, exegesis, expansion, exposition, elucidation, clarification, illumination, illustration, commentary; supplement, appendix, addendum, codicil, glossary, Law.
allonge; postscript, p.s., P.S., subjoinder, epilogue, subjunction, endpiece, tailpiece, tag, postfix, suffix.
2. remark, word, statement, utterance; opinion, editorial, interpretation, observation, reaction; discussion, review, descant, criticism.
-v. 3. annotate, make notes on, gloss, footnote; explain, expand upon, amplify, elucidate, clarify, illuminate, shed light, illustrate, exemplify.
4. remark, touch upon, say a word about, say something about; discuss, expound upon, descant, make a statement regarding; editorialize, opine, express one's views, interpret, give one's reaction to, give one's observations on, review, criticize.
commentary, n.1. annotation, notes, footnotes, scholia, gloss, marginalia; comments, remarks, Latin. adversaria.
2. essay, thesis, dissertation, exposition, expose, study, tract, tractate, monograph, pamphlet, theme, composition, paper; discussion, discourse, lecture, speech, descant, disquisition, sermon, homily; review, opinion, interpretation, criticism; article, editorial, column, piece.
3. explanation, exegesis, elucidation. See - comment (def.1).
4. Usually
commentaries chronicle, record, history, archive, documentation, log, minutes, proceedings; journal, diary, memorandum, memoirs, commonplace book; narrative, narration, recital, account, report, chronology, detail, recapitulation, relation, recountal, description, delineation.
commentator, n.
1. annotator, glossarist, scholiast; exegete, explainer, expositer, expounder, interpreter, commenter.
2. essayist, dissertationist, dissertator, monographer, monographist, pamphleteer, writer, author; lecturer, discourser, descanter, sermonizer, preacher, homilist, speaker.
3. editorialist, columnist, reviewer, critic, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, journalist; news analyst, newscaster, sportscaster, weatherman, broadcaster, Brit,
newsreader, Radio, Television,
anchor man.
commerce, n.
1. trade, traffic, buying and selling, barter, truck; dealing, transaction, exchange, interchange, reciprocity; business, marketing, merchandising, mercantilism, commercialism; bargaining, negotiating.
2. social relations, conversance, association, fraternization, fellowship; communion, sympathy, harmony, union, connection, intimacy; communication, intercourse, interchange, dealings; interlocution, conversation, dialogue, colloquy, parley, discussion, debate; argument, disputation, logomachy, verbal contest.
3. coitus, coition, sexual intercourse, copulation, fornication, congress, consummation, conjugation, conjunction; coupling, mating, making love, SI. doing it, SI. getting it on, SI. going to bed.
commercial, adj.
1. mercantile, of business, of trade, of buying and selling; merchantable, marketable, saleable, vendible; mass-produced.
2. mercenary, avaricious, greedy, covetous, eager for gain; acquisitive, grasping, SI. grabby, rapacious; selfish, hoarding, possessive. -n.
3. advertisement, ad, Chiefly Brit. Inf.
advert, spot advertisement, spot; announcement, blurb, statement, broadcast, Inf.
plug, Inf.
pitch.
commingle, v. mix, admix, commix, intermix; blend, mingle, scramble, intermingle, interlard; combine, compound, alloy, Chem. levigate, merge, coalesce, melt together; unite, join, inosculate, fuse, amalgamate, incorporate; interweave, intertwine, link together; synthesize, homogenize, hybridize, mongrelize.