note
see also: Note
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Note
Proper noun
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see also: Note
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt ("note, mark, sign") and Old French note, both from Latin nota.
Nounnote
- A symbol or annotation.
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
- A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- A written or printed communication or commitment.
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.
- A short informal letter; a billet.
- (academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
- A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- (finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
- a promissory note
- a note of hand
- a negotiable note
- (obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene i]:
- Heere is now the Smithes note, for Shooing, / And Plough-Irons.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.
- Synonyms: bill
- (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- (music) A sound.
- A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
- A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗, lines 37–40:
- Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move / Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful Bird / Sings darkling, and in ſhadieſt Covert hid / Tunes her nocturnal Note.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, page 47 ↗:
- 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.
- (by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
- (by extension) A call or song of a bird.
- (rhythm game) An indication which players have to click, type, hit, tap or do other actions if it appears
- (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene i]:
- 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.
- (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
- a poet of note
- A critical comment.
- Your performance was fantastic! I have just one note: you were a little flat in bars 35 and 36.
- (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
- (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i], page 23 ↗, column 2:
- 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
- (mark of disgrace) blemish, blot, brand, reproach, stain, stigma, taint
- (observation, notice, heed) attention, mark; see also Thesaurus:attention
- Russian: знак
- Italian: nota, richiamo
- Russian: примеча́ние
- French: note
- Italian: nota, nota a margine
- Portuguese: nota
- Russian: примеча́ние
- Spanish: nota
- French: note
- German: Notiz, Zettel
- Italian: nota, memoria
- Portuguese: nota
- Russian: запи́ска
- Spanish: nota
- French: note
- German: Notiz, Zettel
- Italian: memoria
- Portuguese: bilhete, aviso
- Russian: запи́ска
- Spanish: nota
- Russian: замеча́ние
note (notes, present participle noting; simple past and past participle noted)
- (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii ↗:
- 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?
- If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.
- (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
- We noted his speech.
- (transitive) To denote; to designate.
- The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x-1.
- (transitive) To annotate.
- (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
- (transitive, law) 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.
- 2020 October 28, Kimberly Budd for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, case SJC-12769:
- By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.
- 2020 October 28, Kimberly Budd for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, case SJC-12769:
- French: noter, prendre note
- Italian: annotare, prendere nota, segnare
- Portuguese: anotar
- Spanish: anotar
From Middle English note, from Old English notu, from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō, from Proto-Indo-European *newd-.
Nounnote (uncountable)
- (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- 1897 May 27, Halifax Courier, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, volume IV, London: Henry Frowde, page 302 ↗:
- Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit.
- 1897 May 27, Halifax Courier, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, volume IV, London: Henry Frowde, page 302 ↗:
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
- 1843, The Farmer's Magazine, page 384:
- The supply of horned cattle at this fair was great, but the business done was confined to fleshy barreners of feeding qualities and superior new-calved heifers, and those at early note, with appearance of being useful; [...]
- 1922, P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon, page 11:
- A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note.
Note
Proper noun
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