note
noun
- item of information given with educational intent
- sign used in musical notation, a pitched sound
- text placed at the bottom of a page or at the end of a chapter
- paper currency, as in bank note
- noticed as remarkable, famed for
verb
- create a short document
- to say or take a note of
- noticed as remarkable, famed for
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ̯t/ / /ˈnoʊ̯t/ / /ˈnəʉ̯t/
name
- The St. Louis Blues hockey team.
noun
Etymology: 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.
- That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
“And have thou that for thy note !”
“Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit.”
- 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.
“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; [...]”
“For sale, a Kerry cow, five years old, at her note in May.”
- The milk given by a cow or sow during such period.
verb
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”).
- 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.”
- To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
“We noted his speech.”
- To denote; to designate.
“The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x⁻¹.”
- To annotate.
- To set down in musical characters.
- 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.
“By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.”