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• The book's annotated bibliography fills 45 pages .
• You are allowed to bring annotated copies of the novel you have been studying into the exam .
• Any attached documentation should be annotated with explanatory notes for clarification .
• Students arrive at the lecture equipped with printed notes : all they have to do is to annotate these printouts .
• He annotates and indexes a page in his notebook .
• Typically I use this program to annotate a document with my own structured content .
• Annotated data has facilitated recent advances in part of speech tagging , parsing , and other language processing issues .
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supplied with or containing explanatory notes, textual comments, etc.: an annotated edition of Milton's poetry.

Origin of annotated

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• un·an·no·tat·ed, adjective
• well-an·no·tat·ed, adjective

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How to use annotated in a sentence

He also included a link to an annotated list of what he considered David Allan Coe’s 50 best songs.

We created an annotated Google Colab notebook that will install Senta, download our dataset, and assign a sentiment score to each row.

The annotated topics are surfaced on the page and contribute to SEO.

For those unfamiliar with Michals, an annotated biography and useful essays are included.

Reprinted from George Orwell: A Life in Letters, selected and annotated by Peter Davison.

The resulting text is both social commentary and annotated memoir—equal parts enlightening and enjoyable but sharp throughout.

Among the materials was an annotated cartoon booklet given to my father on his 22 birthday.

Many of the objects in the show are personal notes, annotated scripts, and letters.

Signed and annotated , you will see, by her Highness's own hand.

The protest of the German professors against the alleged Allied calumnies was printed in full and annotated with sympathy.

You are quite aware of this, and those who are not, may be convinced of it by opening any page of the annotated editions.

An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes.

He always has a special library on some particular subject, with the books all annotated .

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• interpreted
• illustrated
• commentated
• demonstrated
• illuminated
• cleared (up)
• spelled out
• demystified
• disentangled
• unscrambled

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An AI trained to recognize cancer from a slew of medical scans, annotated in yellow marker by a human doctor, could learn to associate “yellow” with “cancer.”

To make any sense of these images, and in turn, what the brain is doing, the parts of neurons have to be annotated in three dimensions, the result of which is a wiring diagram.

This kind of labeling and reconstruction is necessary to make sense of the vast datasets in connectomics, and have traditionally required armies of undergraduate students or citizen scientists to manually annotate all chunks.

Once a video is annotated with a topic, it is associated with IAB’s categories to be monetized.

You should annotate your reports to document these indexing bugs during the month of September through October 14th.

The latest $400 model has a reading light and a touch screen that allows you to annotate while reading.

Madame Beattie threw back her plumed head and laughed, the same laugh she had used to annotate the stories.

He read industriously for some time, occasionally pausing to annotate ; and once or twice he raised his head and listened.

He would annotate three hundred volumes for a page of facts.

To annotate it in detail would be to spoil its completeness.

His curiosity turning to admiration, he began to translate and annotate the most striking treatises that fell into his hands.

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Using annotation tools for collaboration

Zoom’s in-meeting product features allow you to add annotations on your screen during your video calls — a tool for remote teams to easily brainstorm and collaborate. Meeting participants can add annotations while screen sharing as a viewer or the one that started sharing their screen. You can also use annotation tools when sharing or viewing a whiteboard .

Prerequisites for screen annotation tools in virtual meetings

• Annotation enabled
• Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux: Global minimum version or higher Note : For Linux users, annotation is supported on X11. Due to limitations with Wayland, annotation is only supported when a user is sharing their entire desktop on one display.
• Zoom mobile app for Android or iOS: Global minimum version or higher

Note : The meeting host can disable attendee annotation. If you do not have the annotation option, confirm that the host has not disabled annotation.

How to use annotation tools for collaboration and brainstorming

Windows | macos | linux, how to annotate if you are screen sharing.

How to annotate if you are viewing shared content

While viewing a shared screen or shared whiteboard, click View Options  then  Annotate at the top.

Available annotation tools

You will see these annotation tools:

Note : The Select , Spotlight , and Save options are only available if you started the shared screen or whiteboard .

• Mouse : Deactivate annotation tools and switch to your mouse pointer. This button is blue if annotation tools are deactivated.
• Select (only available if you started the shared screen or whiteboard): Select, move, or resize your annotations. To select several annotations at once, click and drag your mouse to display a selection area.
• Text : Insert text.

• Stamp : Insert predefined icons like a check mark or star.
• Spotlight (only available if you started the shared screen or whiteboard): Displays your mouse pointer to all participants when your mouse is within the area being shared. Use this to point out parts of the screen to other participants.

• Vanishing Pen (only available if you started the shared screen or whiteboard): Allows the presenter to annotate on the whiteboard or shared screen without having to erase or undo their last addition, as the annotation will fade away within a couple of seconds. 
• Eraser : Click and drag to erase parts of your annotation.
• Format : Change the formatting options of annotations tools like color, line width, and font.
• Undo : Undo your latest annotation.
• Redo : Redo your latest annotation that you undid.
• Clear : Delete all annotations.
• PNG : Save as a PNG file. If there are multiple whiteboards, Zoom will save a PNG file for each whiteboard.
• PDF : Save as a PDF. If there are multiple whiteboards, Zoom will save a single PDF containing all whiteboards.

Annotation settings

• Enable/Disable Annotation for Others: Allow or prevent the participants from annotating on your shared screen.

Annotation shortcuts

• Undo: Ctrl + Z
• Redo: Ctrl + Y
• Mouse mode: Right-click anywhere
• Undo: Command + Z
• Redo: Command + Shift + Z

Annotation tools for shared screen or whiteboard

• Start sharing your screen .
• Tap the pencil icon again to close the annotation tools.

The following annotation tools' availability depend on whether you are using a phone or tablet.

• Pen : Tap and drag to draw with a pen in the selected color. 
• Highlighter : Tap and drag to highlight parts of the screen in the selected color. 
• Arrow : Tap and drag to draw an arrow in the selected color.
• Line : Tap and drag to draw a line in the selected color.
• Rectangle : Tap and drag to draw a rectangle in the selected color.
• Oval : Tap and drag to draw an oval in the selected color.
• Text (Tablet only): Type text in the selected color on the shared screen. 
• Color: Change the color and line width of your annotations.
• Erase : Tap on your annotations to remove them.
• Undo (Tablet only): Remove your last changes. 
• Redo (Tablet only): Add the annotations you previously removed. 
• Clear (Tablet only): Clear your own annotations. 
• Save : Save the current shared screen or whiteboard with current annotations.

Annotation tools for just whiteboard

If you started sharing a whiteboard , you will see the following annotation tools:

• Undo icon: Remove your last changes.
• Redo icon: Add the annotations you previously removed.
• Pen icon: Draw with a pen.
• Eraser icon: Tap on your annotations to remove them.
• Shape icon: Tap and drag to draw a line, rectangle, or oval in the selected color.
• Color icon: Change the color of your annotations.
• Text icon (Tablet only): Tap to enter text on the whiteboard. Tap the system back icon to hide the keyboard to see options to bold, italicize, adjust font size, and text color. Tap anywhere else on the whiteboard to finish this text box. 
• Line width icon: tap to adjust the line width of your lines and shapes. 
• Highlighter icon (Tablet only): Tap and drag to highlight parts of the screen in the selected color. 
• Spotlight icon: Display a red dot on the shared screen at all times. Use this point out parts of the screen to other participants. This is only available for the user sharing their whiteboard or screen. 
• Trash bin icon: Display options to clear annotations.
• Smart Recognition : Tap the toggle to enable or disable smart recognition drawing. If enabled, Zoom will smooth out your lines and auto-convert drawings to shapes immediately after you draw.
• Save to Album : Download an image of your whiteboard to your device.

You can choose to allow participants to annotate on your shared screen and whether you want participants' names to appear next to their annotations.

• Tap the pencil icon to hide annotation tools.
• Annotate: Allow or prevent participants from annotating on your shared screen.

Note : You cannot annotate when sharing your entire screen into the meeting via iOS device. You can only annotate when sharing a portion of your screen.

• Tap the pencil icon on your screen. This will open the annotation tools.

The annotation tools available are dependent on whether you are on an iPad or iPhone.

• Spotlight : Display a red dot on the shared screen at all times. Use this to point out parts of the screen to other participants.
• Pen/Highlighter : Draw with a pen or highlight parts of the screen.
• Arrow  (iPad only): Tap and drag to draw an arrow.
• Line : Tap and drag to draw a line.
• Rectangle : Tap and drag to draw a rectangle.
• Oval : Tap and drag to draw an oval.
• Text (iPad only): Type text on the shared screen.
• Color : Change the color and line width of your annotations.
• Eraser : Tap on your annotations to remove them.
• Undo (iPad only): Remove your last changes.
• Redo (iPad only): Add the annotations you previously removed.
• Clear (iPad only): Clear your own annotations.
• Save : Save shared screen as a photo on your device.

• Close icon: Hide the annotation tools. Tap the blue pencil icon to display annotation tools again.
• Color icon: Change the color and line width of your annotations.
• Spotlight icon (tap the arrow to display this tool on tablet): Display a red dot on the shared screen at all times. Use this point out parts of the screen to other participants.