Footnote vs Annotation - What's the difference?
footnote | annotation |
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
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To add footnotes to a text; to annotate
a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis
a comment added to a text
the process of writing such comment or commentary
(computing) metadata added to a document or program
(genetics) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases
As nouns the difference between footnote and annotation
is that 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 while annotation is a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.As a verb footnote
is to add footnotes to a text; to annotate.footnote
English
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* (abbreviation)Noun
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.