underannotate
underannotate verb: to provide too few annotations.
Verb
underannotate (third-person singular simple present underannotates, present participle underannotating, simple past and past participle underannotated)
- To provide too few annotations.
- And in an engagingly old-fashioned way McFarland aggressively underannotates the chapter, so that nonadepts will be unable to steal fruit from this orchard without acknowledging its source.1982, James O. Hoge, James L West, James S.W. West, Review, page 153
- We further demonstrated this point by artificially underannotating the well-annotated POSSUM and Orphanet syndromes, through the random elimination of half the annotated features per syndrome.2009 December, Martin Oti, Martijn A. Huynen, Han G. Brunner, “The Biological Coherence of Human Phenome Databases”, in American Journal of Human Genetics, volume 85, number 6
Forms of underannotate
| third-person singular present | underannotates |
|---|---|
| present participle | underannotating |
| past participle | underannotated |
| past | underannotated |
Origin of underannotate
From under- + annotate.
Questions about underannotate
- What does underannotate mean?
- Underannotate means to provide too few annotations.
- What part of speech is underannotate?
- Underannotate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of underannotate?
- The past tense of underannotate is underannotated.
Words near underannotate in the dictionary
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