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noun
1.
A brief written record.
2.
A short personal letter.  Synonyms: billet, line, short letter.
3.
A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound.  Synonyms: musical note, tone.
4.
A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling.
5.
A characteristic emotional quality.  "There was a note of gaiety in her manner" , "He detected a note of sarcasm"
6.
A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank).  Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback.
7.
A comment or instruction (usually added).  Synonyms: annotation, notation.  "He added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
8.
High status importance owing to marked superiority.  Synonyms: distinction, eminence, preeminence.
9.
A promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time.  Synonyms: note of hand, promissory note.
verb
(past & past part. noted; pres. part. noting)
1.
Make mention of.  Synonyms: mention, observe, remark.  "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing"
2.
Notice or perceive.  Synonyms: mark, notice.  "Mark my words"
3.
Observe with care or pay close attention to.  Synonyms: observe, take note.
4.
Make a written note of.  Synonym: take down.



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"Note" Quotes from Famous Books



... magistrate, was supposed to have been murdered. There is, too, the history of Lord Burleigh's house (in Cecil Street) to record; and Northumberland House still stands to recall to us its many noble inmates. On the other side of the Strand we have to note Butcher Row (now pulled down), where the Gunpowder Plot conspirators met; Exeter House, where Lord Burleigh's wily son lived; and, finally, Exeter 'Change, where the poet Gay lay in state. Nor shall we forget Cross's menagerie and the elephant Chunee; nor omit mention of many of the ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... successive generations of men, with perfect indifference to their relative moral conditions, their crimes or wrongs, are all knocked on the head together; and that future adjustment and retribution is a dream." (So p. 72.) In a note to the next page, he informs his readers that if I say that I have left the question of immortality doubtful, it does not affect the argument; for I have admitted "the probability" of there being ...
— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman

... here a number of days now—I have not even taken the trouble to note how many—but still nothing has been done. They say that half the Powers refuse to treat with him until things are better arranged, and that the Russians have already raised insuperable difficulties because they say the Japanese have the big Manchu in their pocket. ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

... reminiscence of the metre of The Grammarian's Funeral; and the peculiar blending together of lyrical and dramatic forms, seems essentially characteristic of Mr. Browning's method. Yet there is a distinct personal note running all through the poem, and true originality is to be found rather in the use made of a model than in the rejection of all models and masters. Dans l'art comme dans la nature on est toujours fils de quelqu'un, ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... When the gates of Boston were closed in 1775, after the battle of Lexington, he returned to Northampton, and died there of consumption, December 20, 1775. A full account of his life is given in Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit. See also Note 3. ...
— Diary of Anna Green Winslow - A Boston School Girl of 1771 • Anna Green Winslow


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