note
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəʊt/
- (General American) enPR: nōt, IPA(key): /noʊt/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊt
Etymology 1
editFrom 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”).
Noun
editnote (countable and uncountable, plural notes)
- 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.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, book III, page 89:
- 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.
- 1841, John Henry Newman, A Letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford, on Occasion of No. 90, in the Series Called The Tracts for the Times, Oxford: John Henry Parker, page 39:
- 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.
- 1888, Mary Augusta Ward, Robert Elsmere, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 217:
- What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !
- 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 251:
- 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.
- 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.
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ark Hyperion:
- Garson: Drop me a note sometime. I'd love to hear how we're doing.
- (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 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.
- Synonym: 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.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- 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.
- (by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
- (by extension) A call or song of a bird.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
- 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[.]
- (rhythm games) 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.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of ceremonies and reſpects”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, volume III, London: J. and J. Knapton et al., published 1730, page 373:
- 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.
- (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
Synonyms
edit- (mark of disgrace): blemish, blot, brand, reproach, stain, stigma, taint
- (observation, notice, heed): attention, mark; see also Thesaurus:attention
Derived terms
edit- 128th note
- 16th note
- 256th note
- 32nd note
- 512th note
- 64th note
- 8th note
- after-note
- banana note
- banknote/bank note
- base note
- bass note
- bent as a nine-bob note
- big-note
- black note
- blue note
- bread-and-butter note
- briefing note
- brown note
- call note
- case note
- changing note
- chest note
- circular note
- c note/c-note
- cognovit note
- collateral note
- collective note
- consignment 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
- Euro-note
- false note
- fit note
- flip-flop note
- footnote
- ghost note
- G-note
- g note/g-note
- grace note
- half note
- head-note
- head note
- heart note
- hedge-note
- high note
- holding note
- home note
- hundred twenty-eighth note
- Johnny-one-note
- keep note
- leading note
- liner notes
- marginal note
- mash note
- medium-term note
- mental note
- middle note
- mortgage note
- municipal note
- musical note
- nickel note
- note book
- note card
- note job
- notemaker
- notemaking
- note of admiration
- note of exclamation
- note of hand
- note of interjection
- note of interrogation
- note pad/notepad
- note paper
- note payable
- note-perfect
- note shaver
- note-take
- notetaker
- note-taking
- note to self
- note value
- note verbale
- off-note
- of note
- one-note
- on that note
- passing note
- pedal note
- postal note
- post-it note
- post note
- postum note
- promissory note
- quadruple whole note
- quarter note
- ransom note effect
- reciting note
- request note
- satisfaction note
- secured note
- senior note
- shape-note
- shape note
- shipping note
- sick note
- 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
- thirty-second note
- time note
- Tironian note
- top note
- treasury note
- twelve-note
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- verbal note
- whistle note
- white note
- whole note
- wolf note
- wood note/wood-note
- zero-coupon note
Translations
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Verb
editnote (third-person singular simple present 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:
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See also
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”) (Modern German genießen (“to enjoy”)), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editnote (usually uncountable, plural notes)
- (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- 1838, William Marriott, “The Deluge”, in A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries, Basel: Schweighauser & Co, page 11:
- And have thou that for thy note !
- 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.
- 1962, Arthur C. Cawley, Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays, page 125:
- Thou canst do thy note; that have I espied.
- (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; [...]
- 1875, Paper, Belfast:
- For sale, a Kerry cow, five years old, at her note in May.
- 1888, S. O. Addy Gloss, Words Sheffield, page 160:
- A cow is said to be in note when she is in milk.
- 1922, P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon, page 11:
- A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note.
- 1996, C. I. Macafee Conc., Ulster Dict. at Note:
- Be at her note, be near note, come forward to her note, of a cow or sow, be near the time for calving or farrowing.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “note”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “note”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- note, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 2, Halliwell, 1860.
Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editNoun
editnote
Danish
editEtymology 1
editFrom English note, from Italian nota, from Latin nota.
Noun
editnote c (singular definite noten, plural indefinite noter)
Inflection
editEtymology 2
editSee the noun not (“groove”)
Verb
editnote
Conjugation
editThis verb needs an inflection-table template.
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French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editnote f (plural notes)
- note (written or spoken)
- mark (UK), grade (US)
- bill (UK, US), check (US)
- (music) note
- touch, hint, note
Derived terms
editDescendants
editVerb
editnote
- inflection of noter:
Further reading
edit- “note”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
editVerb
editnote
- inflection of notar:
Italian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editnote
Noun
editnote f
Anagrams
editLatin
editParticiple
editnōte
Middle Dutch
editEtymology
editNoun
editnōte f
- nut (fruit)
Inflection
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “note (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “note (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old French note (noun) and the verb noter.
Noun
editnote
- note
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xvii, recto:
- note: That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- 1303, Roberd of Brunnè, “The Seventh Commandment”, in Frederick James Furnivall, editor, Handlyng Synne, London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, published 1862, page 67, lines 2073–6:
- But þefte serueþ of wykkede note, / Hyt hangeþ hys mayster by þe þrote, / Or doþe hym lese hys godë fame, / Or bryngeþ hym oute of þe towne for shame.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
editAdverb
editnote
- Alternative form of not
Norman
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editnote f (plural notes)
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editNoun
editnote m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural noter, definite plural notene)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “note” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editnote m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural notar, definite plural notane)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editnote
- past participle of nyta
References
edit- “note” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
edit
Noun
editnote m (plural notes)
- (Brazil, computing, colloquial) Clipping of notebook (“notebook computer”).
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: no‧te
Verb
editnote
- inflection of notar:
Romanian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editnote f pl
Scots
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English not, note, noote, from Old English notu (“use; utility; benefit”). More at note.
Noun
editnote (uncountable)
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English noten, notien, from Old English notian (“to make use of; employ; enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *nutōną (“to make use of; enjoy”).
Verb
editnote (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle notin, simple past nott, past participle nott or notten)
Spanish
editVerb
editnote
- inflection of notar:
Venetian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin noctem, accusative of nox (compare Italian notte).
Noun
editnote f (plural noti)
Yola
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English not, from Old English nāt; equivalent to *ne (“not”) + 'ote (“know”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editnote
- I do not know.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Note vidy; Ich note; Note will wee dra aaght to-die?
- I do not know where; I ne wot; I don't know will we draw any to-day?
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59
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