What is the difference between commentary and annotation?
commentary | annotation |
A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
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 commentary and annotation
is that commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work while annotation is a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.commentary
Noun
(commentaries)- This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).