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Verb: annotate  'anow`teyt
  1. Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
    "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel"
    - footnote
     
  2. Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
    "He annotated on what his teacher had written"
    - gloss, comment

Derived forms: annotated, annotates, annotating

See also: annotation, annotator, note

Type of: compose, indite [archaic], interpret, pen, rede [archaic], write

Encyclopedia: Annotate