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Annotated vs Footnote - What's the difference?

annotated | footnote |

As verbs the difference between annotated and footnote

is that annotated is (annotate) while footnote is to add footnotes to a text; to annotate.

As a noun footnote is

a short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.

annotated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (annotate)

  • annotate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To add annotation
  • footnote

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation)

    Noun

  • A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text
  • (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related
  • * 2014 , Michael White, " Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
  • In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.

    Verb

    (footnot)
  • To add footnotes to a text; to annotate
  • See also

    * endnote * headnote * reference mark