Statement vs. Comment — What's the Difference?

Something stated; a declaration

A verbal or written remark expressing an opinion or reaction

A formal oral or written declaration, especially with regard to facts or claims

Express an opinion or reaction in speech or writing

An abstract of a commercial or financial account showing an amount due; a bill.

A written note intended as an explanation, illustration, or criticism of a passage in a book or other writing; an annotation.

The act of stating or declaring

A series of annotations or explanations.

A monthly report sent to a debtor or bank depositor.

A statement of fact or opinion, especially a remark that expresses a personal reaction or attitude.

(Computers) An elementary instruction in a programming language.

An implied conclusion or judgment

An overall impression or mood intended to be communicated, especially by means other than words

Talk; gossip

Having a striking appearance, often because of large size, unusual design, or extensive ornamentation

(Computers) A string of text in a program that does not function in the program itself but is used by the programmer to explain instructions.

A declaration or remark.

(Linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information about the topic. Also called rheme.

A presentation of opinion or position.

To make a comment; remark.

(finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.

To serve as a judgmental commentary

(computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.

To make comments on; annotate.

(transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

A spoken or written remark.

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or on paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

(uncountable) The act of commenting.

That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital.

(linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

A message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc;

(programming) A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.

A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true;

(transitive) To remark.

(music) the presentation of a musical theme;

To make remarks or notes.

A nonverbal message;

To comment or remark on.

The act of affirming or asserting or stating something

To insert comments into (source code).

(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

A document showing credits and debits

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; - often followed by on or upon.

To comment on.

A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.

A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.

A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief;

A written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material;

A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people;

Make or write a comment on;

Explain or interpret something

Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases;