different between commentary vs version

English

Etymology

From Middle French commentaire, from Latin comment?rius, comment?rium (“notebook”), compare French commentaire. See comment.

Noun

commentary (countable and uncountable, plural commentaries)

1. a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     This letter […] was published by him with a severe commentary.

2. (usually in the plural) a brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum

3. an oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs

Synonyms

• (series of comments or annotations): scholia (ancient & medieval European works); secondary source

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• commentary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versi?, from Latin vert? (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v????n/, /?v????n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

1. A specific form or variation of something.
2. A translation from one language to another.

3. (education, archaic) A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
4. (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
5. An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

6. (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

7. (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
8. (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
9. (obsolete or medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

Synonyms

• ver, ver. (abbreviations)

Translations

Verb

version (third-person singular simple present versions, present participle versioning, simple past and past participle versioned)

1. (transitive, computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

Translations

See also

• CVS
• revision control
• versioning
• bible

Anagrams

• Iverson, enviros, renvois

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

version

1. accusative singular of versio

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ersion/, [??e?rs?io?n]
• Rhymes: -ersion
• Syllabification: ver?si?on

Noun

version

1. Genitive singular form of versio.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.sj??/

Etymology 1

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versi? (“a turning”), from Latin vert? (“I turn”).

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. version; model (a specific state, variant, or form of something)
2. a translation exercise
3. a translation
4. a specific manner of reporting a fact or event

Etymology 2

From verser

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. (medicine) an obstetric maneuver to change the fetus' position inside the uterus so as to facilitate childbirth

Anagrams

• renvois, rêvions, vin rosé

Further reading

• “version” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

version (plural versiones)

1. version

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin versi?.

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. translation

Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin versi?.

Pronunciation

Noun

version f (plural versions)

1. version

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• versiun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?r?sju?/

Noun

version f (plural version)

1. version

Swedish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin versi?.

Noun

version c

1. version

Declension

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