remarking

Verb

remark (third-person singular simple present remarks, present participle remarking, simple past and past participle remarked)

1. (transitive) To pay heed to; notice; to take notice of, to perceive.
   • I remarked a certain twang in his southern pronunciation.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To pass comment on (something); to indicate, point out.
   • [S]he resolved to […] enter into conversation with her, by remarking the warmth of the room and the length of the dance.1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 19, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume II
3. (obsolete, transitive) To mark (someone or something) out; to distinguish, to make notable.
   • His manacles remark him; there he sits.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC
4. (transitive) To express in words or writing; to state, as an observation.
   • He remarked that it was getting late.
5. (intransitive) To make a remark or remarks on, to comment on (something).

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