What does commentary mean in English?

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0 a spoken description of an event on the radio or television that is broadcast as the event happens:
- The commentary on the Olympic Games was much better on the other channel.
- There's good arts coverage in the newspaper, but not much political commentary.
1 a series of remarks describing an event, esp. on radio or television, or a set of written notes explaining or expressing an opinion on a text or subject:
- [ C ] the television commentary on the Olympic Games

Danish commentaries on the text have traditionally a biographical bias, although some recent efforts come close to the textual analysis.
Most of these texts have given rise to a number of commentaries.
He must start with the explanations and commentaries which his informants themselves offer about their symbols.
They made his writings part of their educational training and published inexpensive commentaries, collections, and anthologies.
One of the burning questions in commentaries and discussions: did it walk erect?
I am grateful to each of the discussants for their commentaries, and especially for pointing me in new directions.
Given that the commentaries have largely focused on different issues, we have decided to treat them separately, making the links where appropriate.
Perhaps the most outspoken point of criticism brought up in the commentaries is that of the lack of explanatory force of the biographical approach.

0 Commentaries

Commentaries are reports on events such as a public ceremony or a football match. They are usually spoken while the events are being viewed. We use both the present simple and the present continuous. The present simple is used to make the commentary sound more immediate: