note | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A symbol or annotation.
- He noted the fact that the kidnapper had left a ransom note.
- 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.
2.A written or printed communication or commitment.
- I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.
- I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.
- Heere is now the Smithes note, for Shooing, / And Plough-Irons.
3.A sound.
- 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.
4.An element of a scent, fragrance, or perfume, especially as a descriptor or category.
- Tom's speech ended on a positive note.

1.To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
- 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.
2.To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
3.To denote; to designate.
- The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹.
4.To set down in musical characters.

Common· #690

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”).