Definición de remark

Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

remark

(rɪmɑːʳk )

Formas de la palabra:plural, 3rd person singular present tense remarks , present participle remarking , past tense, past participle remarked

1. verbo

If you remark that something is the case, you say that it is the case.

I remarked that I would go shopping that afternoon. [VERB that]

'Some people have more money than sense,' Winston had remarked. [VERB with quote]

On several occasions she had remarked on the boy's improvement. [VERB + on/upon]

Sinónimos:comment, say, state, reflect Más sinónimos de remark

2. sustantivo contable

If you make a remark about something, you say something about it.

He made some remarks about the President for which he had to apologise. [+ about]

...the FIFA president's controversial remarks that the Portuguese superstar and other top footballers are modern-day slaves.

Más sinónimos de remark

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Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

remark in American

(rɪˈmɑrk ; rimärkˈ)

verbo transitivo

to notice; observe; perceive

to say or write as an observation or comment

3. Obsolete

to mark; distinguish; indicate

verbo intransitivo

to make an observation or comment

with on or upon

sustantivo

the act of noticing, perceiving, or observing

a man worthy of remark

something said briefly; comment; casual observation

remarque

SYNONYMY NOTE: remark applies to a brief, more or less casual statement of opinion, etc., as in momentarily directing one's attention to something [a remark about clothes]; an observation is an expression of opinion on something to which one has given some degree of special attention and thought [the warden's observations on prison reform]; a comment is a remark or observation made in explaining, criticizing, or interpreting something [comments on a novel]; commentary is usually applied as a collective noun to a series of explanatory notes or annotations [a commentary on Aristotle's Politics]

Origen de la palabra remark

Fr remarquer < re- + marquer, to mark < It marcare < marca, a mark < Gmc *marka: see mark1

Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

remark in British

(rɪˈmɑːk )

verbo

1. (when intr, often foll by on or upon; when tr, may take a clause as object)

to pass a casual comment (about); reflect in informal speech or writing

2. (tr; may take a clause as object)

to perceive; observe; notice

sustantivo

a brief casually expressed thought or opinion; observation

notice, comment, or observation

the event passed without remark

5. engraving a variant spelling of remarque

Formas derivadas

remarker (reˈmarker)

sustantivo

Origen de la palabra remark

C17: from Old French remarquer to observe, from re- + marquer to note, mark1

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He got himself under control and threw out a dead-end remark. Robert Wilson INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (2002)A remark, by the way, which I do not understand to this day. Clive Barker GALILEE (2002)To my right, I heard someone remark of one of Marianne's larger works: `There's something very extreme about it. Hugo Wilcken THE EXECUTION (2002)

Salibi turned around and made a remark that everyone enjoyed and the tension dissipated. Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)