note
UK /nəʊ̯t/ · US /noʊ̯t/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms notes noting noted the Note noit noyt not
- noun A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- noun 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.
- noun A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- noun 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.”
- noun A short informal letter; a billet.
- noun (academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
- noun A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- noun (finance) A written or printed paper (or digital equivalent) acknowledging a debt, and promising payment. “a promissory note”
- verb (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed. “If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.”
- verb (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. “We noted his speech.”
- verb (transitive) To denote; to designate. “The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹.”
- verb (transitive) To annotate.
- verb (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
- verb (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.
- noun (uncountable) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- noun Milk-giving by a cow or sow; (specifically) the period following calving or farrowing, during which a cow or sow is most productive and useful.
- noun (by extension) The milk given by a cow or sow during such period.
- proper noun (informal) The St. Louis Blues hockey team.
Synonyms
draft bond paper commercial paper IOU letter of credit bill attention blemish blot brand reproach stain stigma taint mark short letter line billet musical note tone government note bank bill banker's bill bank note banknote Federal Reserve note greenback annotation notation
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”).
From 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.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.]
- Know not; knows not. [Obs.]
- noun Nut. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- noun Need; needful business. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Etymology [AS. hnitan to strike against, imp. hnat.]
Etymology [AS. nat; ne not + wat wot. See Not, and Wot.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “note”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details