note
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
entertainment
finance
law
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).
Inflected forms:
form: notes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: notes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: noting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: noted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: noted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A symbol or annotation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He noted the fact that the kidnapper had left a ransom note.
gloss: A symbol or annotation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As therefore they that are of the Myſticall Body of Chriſt, haue thoſe inward Graces and Vertues, whereby they differ from all others which are not of the ſame Body ; againe, whoſoeuer appertaine to the Viſible Body of the Church, they haue alſo the notes of externall Profeſſion, whereby the World knoweth what they are.
She [the Anglican church] has the Note of possession, the Note of freedom from party-titles ; the Note of life, a tough life and a vigorous ; she has ancient descent, unbroken continuance, agreement in doctrine with the ancient Church.
What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !
For the first ten years of nationalisation a further note of overall gloom was added by the depressing policy of unimaginative Regional colour schemes, indifferently applied.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
gloss: A symbol or annotation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A symbol or annotation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Garson: Drop me a note sometime. I'd love to hear how we're doing.
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
uncountable
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: draft, bond, paper, commercial paper, IOU, letter of credit
a promissory note
a note of hand
a negotiable note
The car he drives / I pay the note every month
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Heere is now the Smithes note, for Shooing, / And Plough-Irons.
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.
gloss: A written or printed communication or commitment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move / Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful Bird / Sings darkling, and in ſhadieſt Covert hid / Tunes her nocturnal Note.
Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
"That's Fred," said Mrs Fitzwilliam as the iron gate beyond the little plot of beaten earth that had once been a garden gave its individual note.
gloss: A sound.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: We heard the peculiar note of the woodcock, which resembles the repeated croaking of the frog, followed by a sharp hissing sound, somewhat like the noisy chirping of the wagtail[.]
gloss: A sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An element of a scent, fragrance, or perfume, especially as a descriptor or category.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Observation; notice; heed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Go in Nerriſſa, / Giue order to my ſeruants, that they take / No note at all of our being abſent hence, / Nor you Lorenzo, Ieſſica nor you.
So it is true, that ſmall matters win great commendation, becauſe they are continually in uſe, and in note ; whereas the occaſion of any great virtue cometh but on feſtivals.
gloss: Reputation; distinction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a poet of note
gloss: A critical comment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your performance was fantastic! I have just one note: you were a little flat in bars 35 and 36.
gloss: Notification; information; intelligence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Mark of disgrace.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: That my poſteritie ſham’d with the note / Shall curſe my bones, and hold it for no ſinne, / To wiſh that I their father had not beene.
Once more, the more to aggrauate the note,
With a foule Traitors name ſtuffe I thy throte,
And wiſh (ſo pleaſe my Soueraigne) ere I moue,
What my tong ſpeaks, my right drawn ſword may proue
gloss: To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.
Note the difference between progesterone and progrestogen: the former is simply a type of the latter.
Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue:
I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe
Haue to their names tytles of dignitie,
And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
gloss: To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We noted his speech.
gloss: To denote; to designate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹.
gloss: To annotate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To set down in musical characters.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.
Synonyms: mark
Related words: notable
noteless
benote
Derived words: 128th note
16th note
256th note
32nd note
512th note
64th note
8th note
after-note
afternote
atomic note
banana note
banknote
bank note
base note
bass note
bearer note
bent as a nine-bob note
big-note
black note
blue note
bread-and-butter note
bridge note
briefing note
brown note
buckwheat note
bum note
call note
case note
changing note
chest note
circular note
c note
c-note
cognovit note
collateral note
collective note
Community Note
community note
consignment note
content note
couldn't carry a note in a bucket
cover note
credit-linked note
credit note
crib note
death note
debit note
delivery note
demand note
discount note
d-note
doctor's note
dotted note
double note
double whole note
eighth note
endnote
Euro-note
false note
Federal Reserve note
fieldnote
fistnote
fit note
fleeting note
flip-flop note
footnote
forenote
gathering note
ghost note
G-note
g note
g-note
government note
grace note
half note
hatnote
head-note
headnote
head note
heart note
hedge-note
high note
holding note
home note
hundred twenty-eighth note
hypernote
Johnny-one-note
keep note
keynote
leading note
liner notes
marginal note
mash note
medium-term note
mental note
middle note
mortgage note
municipal note
musical note
nickel note
notability
notate
note-bash
note bash
note book
notecard
note card
notecase
notefile
notehead
noteholder
noteholding
note job
notekin
notelet
notelike
notemaker
notemaking
note of admiration
note of exclamation
note of hand
note of interjection
note of interrogation
note pad
notepad
notepaper
note paper
note payable
note-perfect
note shaver
note-take
notetake
notetaker
note-taking
notetaking
note to self
note value
note verbale
notewise
noteworthy
off-note
of note
on a different note
on another note
one-note
on that note
passing note
pedal note
postal note
post-it note
post note
postum note
prenote
promissory note
quadruple whole note
quarter note
queer as a nine bob note
ransom note effect
reciting note
reporter's note
request note
satisfaction note
secured note
senior note
shape note
shape-note
shipping note
sick note
sidenote
side note
sixteenth note
sixty-fourth note
sour note
stamp note
star note
stick note
sticky-note
sticky note
strike a false note
strike a note
structured note
suicide note
super-note
take note
tasting note
technote
thirty-second note
time note
Tironian note
top note
treasury note
twelve-note
two hundred fifty-sixth note
undernote
United States note
verbal note
voicenote
Welsh note
whistle note
white note
whole note
wildcat note
wolf note
woodnote
wood note
wood-note
zero-coupon note
misnote
note down
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