{
  "id": "comments.communication",
  "term": "comments",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "comments",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a message that a person adds to a post and expresses something",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "message.information",
      "people.social",
      "post.mail",
      "add.operation",
      "says.speech"
    ],
    "interaction": "people add a message to a post and express something through it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "attributed authorship",
      "contextual expression",
      "asynchronous response"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Users added comments to a Reddit post about the 2023 Turkey earthquake, sharing rescue updates and personal stories.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Visitors signed the guestbook with comments at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, reflecting on the exhibit.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Scientists attached comments to raw climate data in the NOAA archive, noting instrument calibration dates and anomalies.",
      "domain": "science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "message.information",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "comment",
    "commented",
    "commenting",
    "comments"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Definition slightly tightened to avoid leaning on unlisted concepts; added 'says.speech' and 'add.operation' to components as they are constitutive and missing."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-comments.communication"
}