Commentary and Definition

Commentary

Commentary noun - A series of explanations or observations on something (as an event).

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Definition and commentary are semantically related In some cases you can use "Definition" instead a noun "Commentary".

Definition noun - A vivid representation in words of someone or something.

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Commentary and definition are semantically related in description topic. Sometimes you can use "Commentary" instead a noun "Definition".

good	good commentary	good definition
best	best commentary	best definition
usual	usual commentary	usual definition
original	original commentary	original definition
Other adjectives: actual, real, little, bad, interesting, personal, new, traditional, general, official, alternate.

Scrooge McDuck and Carl Barks (in commentary outside the comics) refer to Magica de Spell as a "slinky sorceress." They must mean the first definition, right?

Source: Accidental Innuendo / Comic Books
Shmuck Bait: The commentary found on the dub's extras mentions how they had to explain the definition of a certain exceptionally vulgar slang term to some actors.

Source: Anime / Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Aristotle discussed them in Poetics and warned that they should be used as little as possible, because (in modern paraphrase), what they do is, by definition, commentary, not story — and so the story-teller should avoid being sidetracked by using more than it needed to help the story.

Source: Greek Chorus

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