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commentize

commentize verb: synonym of comment out.

Verb

commentize (third-person singular simple present commentizes, present participle commentizing, simple past and past participle commentized)

  1. (content management) Synonym of comment out.
    • We ended up commentizing the explanatory blurbs to serve a target audience that probably wouldn't need them. They are retained within the source so that they can be easily toggled back to life as needed in future for wider audiences.
    • I was manually adding “//” for each line I wanted to remove, which was annoying. It turns out that you can use Edit > Commentize to add “//” to the start of all selected lines. The keyboard shortcut in IP7 is Cmd-/. You can reverse the process with Edit > Decommentize or Cmd-\.2016 October 25, quantixed, “Tips from the blog X: multi-line commenting in Igor”, in quantixed, retrieved 16 Jun 2022
    Synonyms:
    comment out

Synonyms of commentize

Forms of commentize

third-person singular presentcommentizes
present participlecommentizing
past participlecommentized
pastcommentized

Origin of commentize

From comment + -ize.

Questions about commentize

What does commentize mean?
Commentize means synonym of comment out.
What part of speech is commentize?
Commentize is a verb.
What is the past tense of commentize?
The past tense of commentize is commentized.

Words near commentize in the dictionary

  1. commenters
  2. commenting
  3. commenting out
  4. commentings
  5. commentitious
  6. commentize
  7. commentized
  8. commentizes
  9. commentizing
  10. commentless
  11. commentor

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