annotate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: an=no=tate

CIDE DICTIONARY

annotate, v. t. [L. annotatus; p. p. of annotare to annotate; ad + notare to mark, nota mark. See Note, n.].

 To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

annotate, v. i. 

 To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

annotate, v.tr. add explanatory notes to (a book, document, etc.).

Derivative

annotatable adj. annotation n. annotative adj. annotator n.

Etymology

L annotare (as AD-, nota mark)

ROGET THESAURUS

annotate

Interpretation

VB interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render, do into, turn into, transfuse the sense of, find out, 1 the meaning of, read, spell out, make out, decipher, unravel, disentangle, find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve, read between the lines, account for, find the cause, tell the cause of, throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon, clear up, clarify, elucidate, illustrate, exemplify, unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate, popularize, take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense, understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand.