Meaning of "remark" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REMARK

From Old French remarquer to observe, from re- + marquer to note, mark1.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF REMARK

remark  [rɪˈmɑːk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REMARK

Remark is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb remark in English.

WHAT DOES REMARK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Comment

A comment is generally a verbal or written remark often related to an added piece of information, or an observation or statement. These are usually marked with an abbreviation, such as "obs." or "N.B." Comment may refer to...

Definition of remark in the English dictionary

The first definition of remark in the dictionary is when intr, often foll by on or upon; when tr, may take a clause as object to pass a casual comment ; reflect in informal speech or writing. Other definition of remark is to perceive; observe; notice. Remark is also a brief casually expressed thought or opinion; observation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO REMARK

PRESENT

Present

I remark

you remark

he/she/it remarks

we remark

you remark

they remark

Present continuous

I am remarking

you are remarking

he/she/it is remarking

we are remarking

you are remarking

they are remarking

Present perfect

I have remarked

you have remarked

he/she/it has remarked

we have remarked

you have remarked

they have remarked

Present perfect continuous

I have been remarking

you have been remarking

he/she/it has been remarking

we have been remarking

you have been remarking

they have been remarking

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I remarked

you remarked

he/she/it remarked

we remarked

you remarked

they remarked

Past continuous

I was remarking

you were remarking

he/she/it was remarking

we were remarking

you were remarking

they were remarking

Past perfect

I had remarked

you had remarked

he/she/it had remarked

we had remarked

you had remarked

they had remarked

Past perfect continuous

I had been remarking

you had been remarking

he/she/it had been remarking

we had been remarking

you had been remarking

they had been remarking

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will remark

you will remark

he/she/it will remark

we will remark

you will remark

they will remark

Future continuous

I will be remarking

you will be remarking

he/she/it will be remarking

we will be remarking

you will be remarking

they will be remarking

Future perfect

I will have remarked

you will have remarked

he/she/it will have remarked

we will have remarked

you will have remarked

they will have remarked

Future perfect continuous

I will have been remarking

you will have been remarking

he/she/it will have been remarking

we will have been remarking

you will have been remarking

they will have been remarking

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would remark

you would remark

he/she/it would remark

we would remark

you would remark

they would remark

Conditional continuous

I would be remarking

you would be remarking

he/she/it would be remarking

we would be remarking

you would be remarking

they would be remarking

Conditional perfect

I would have remark

you would have remark

he/she/it would have remark

we would have remark

you would have remark

they would have remark

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been remarking

you would have been remarking

he/she/it would have been remarking

we would have been remarking

you would have been remarking

they would have been remarking

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you remark
we let´s remark
you remark

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to remark

Past participle

remarked

Present Participle

remarking

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «REMARK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «remark» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of remark

acknowledgment · animadvert · assertion · attention · comment · consideration · declaration · declare · espy · heed · make out · mark · mention · note · notice · observation · observe · opinion · perceive · recognition · reflect · reflection · regard · say · see · state · statement · thought · utterance · word

TRANSLATION OF REMARK

Find out the translation of remark to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of remark from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «remark» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 评论
• Translator English - Spanish: comentario
• English: remark
• Translator English - Hindi: टिप्पणी
• Translator English - Arabic: مُلَاحَظَة
• Translator English - Russian: замечание
• Translator English - Portuguese: comentário
• Translator English - Bengali: মন্তব্য
• Translator English - French: remarque
• Translator English - Malay: Kata
• Translator English - German: Bemerkung
• Translator English - Japanese: 意見
• Translator English - Korean: 소견
• Translator English - Javanese: Tetembungane
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lời bình luận
• Translator English - Tamil: கருத்து
• Translator English - Marathi: टिप्पणी
• Translator English - Turkish: düşünce
• Translator English - Italian: osservazione
• Translator English - Polish: uwaga
• Translator English - Ukrainian: зауваження
• Translator English - Romanian: remarcă
• Translator English - Greek: παρατήρηση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: opmerking
• Translator English - Swedish: kommentera
• Translator English - Norwegian: bemerkning

10 QUOTES WITH «REMARK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word remark.

1

Carol Anshaw

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

2

Julien Benda

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

3

John Bright

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

4

David K. E. Bruce

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

5

Rosalynn Carter

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it ,and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.

6

Willa Cather

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

7

Jeremy Clarkson

I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It's inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I've offended them, and that will be that.

8

Richard Dawkins

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

9

Howard Dean

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

10

Karen Duffy

My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REMARK»

Discover the use of remark in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to remark and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Speculative Remark: One of Hegel's Bons Mots

Nancy's The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of philosophy away from system building to analysis of specific linguistic detail.

Jean-Luc Nancy, 2001

Life is a BEST REMARK From God

The pages of this book are adorned with stories of Bob ranging from his mischievous boyhood adventures, through his working life, and in times of recreation enjoying his much loved sport, Golf.

Bob Onusko, 2012

God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and ...

God Owes Us Nothing reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for ...

Leszek Kolakowski, 1998

Four Hidden Metamorphoses: A Remark on Blood, Muscle, Mental ...

This book of biology and medicine shows how diseases: Sickle cell anaemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, are related to the adaptation of our organism to aerial respiration.

Maurice Israël, 2004

The common school manual: a regular and connected course of ...

What is Mary's remark? Ma's reply? Jane's question? Ma's answer? Mary's objection? Ma's explanation? Mary's retraction? Ma's admonition? Les. 6. Subject ? Jane's question? Ma's reply? Mary's question? Ma's answer? Mary's intimation ?

Montgomery Robert Bartlett, 1827

Cohomology of completions

Then the hypotheses of the Theorem in Remark 6 above are all obviously satisfied. (The only one requiring verification is (**); and this follows for the parenthetical reason given following the statement of (**) - that is, if K*€ Co(A) is such that the ...

Saul Lubkin, 1980

Play it Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes

The. French. Remark: Breathless. and. Cinematic. Citationality. David. Wills. I am not, it seems, in the cinema. Not even in the video. This all comes at a complicated series of removes. At some point I could have said, "I am in the cinema," and ...

Andrew Horton, Stuart Y. McDougal, 1998

The Struggle Against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept ...

Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy Oskari Kuusela. *** To ascertain the justification of the above interpretation, let us address in more detail certain exegetical questions relating to the developmental history of the remark just quoted ...

Oskari Kuusela, 2009

Spline Functions on Triangulations

Remark 10.4. The question of how well the spline spaces Srd(△n) defined on uniform type-I triangulations of the unit square approximate smooth functions has been studied by several authors. The problem has been solved for all values of r  ...

Ming-Jun Lai, Larry L. Schumaker, 2007

The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and The ...

In 1973 in his Seminar Les Non-Dupes Errent Lacan says that "hash is superfluous" and when one considers the immediate context of this remark it actually suggests that hash is not a source of knowledge (1974, lecture from 18 December ...

Rik Loose, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REMARK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term remark is used in the context of the following news items.

Singhal's 'Hindu Nation' Remark a Conspiracy to Destabilise Centre …

RAMPUR: Reacting to Ashok Singhal's remark that India will become a 'Hindu Nation' by 2020, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan said the "disturbed" VHP ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»

Napoli coach hit with ban over offensive remark

Napoli coach Rafael Benitez has been handed a one-game touchline ban for making an offensive remark about the nature of Italian football. Palestinian club ... «The Local.it, May 15»

Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar booked for Bhagat Singh …

Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar booked for Bhagat Singh remark. It was alleged that Tushar Gandhi, in Jaipur earlier, had called Bhagat Singh a ... «The Indian Express, May 15»

Structural Racism At Root Of Offensive Remark About North …

Others booed, but Rep. Rena Moran (DFL-St.Paul) thought for several hours before responding to an offensive remark Rep. Jim Newberger (R-Becker) had ... «The UpTake, Apr 15»

Volkswagen chairman draws criticism over reported remark raising …

BERLIN -- Volkswagen patriarch and board chairman Ferdinand Piech is drawing criticism over a reported remark that raised questions over the future of the ... «CTV News, Apr 15»

GOP donor revises account of Hancock's remark about Schweich

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Republican donor has revised his recollection of a comment that he says the state GOP chairman made against an auditor who ... «fox2now.com, Mar 15»

UC student group rejects Napolitano's apology for 'crap' remark

UC president Janet Napolitano apologized Thursday for a crude remark she made the day before about student protesters who interrupted a regents meeting. «Los Angeles Times, Mar 15»

'Firewater' remark draws ire of American Indian team's fans

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) An owner of a sports website apologized Thursday after one of its commentators used the term ''firewater'' in describing how supporters of an ... «FOXSports.com, Mar 15»

Pope Francis' Mexico remark not meant to offend, Vatican says

ROME (Reuters) - A remark by Pope Francis to the effect that he hoped his ... that the remark, made by the pope in an email to the head of an Argentinian human ... «Yahoo News, Feb 15»

Alejandro Inarritu says Sean Penn's Oscar remark was a joke

Sean Penn's remark about Mexican-born Oscar-winner Alejandro Inarritu's immigration status at the end of Sunday's Academy Awards telecast struck many as ... «CBS News, Feb 15»