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Note

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

... answer as Finn's great bulk blocked the entrance. This time her voice struck a note quite new to her. She understood now that Finn understood; she knew she was not to be called upon to shield that which she cherished in the cave there from immediate peril. There was rest and thankfulness ...

— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson

... all would be made right. Search was then commenced for their property. One of their journals and a box of books, with the medicine chest and a few articles of clothing were found, and after a palaver were restored; but the whole of Richard Lander's journal with the exception of one note-book, Mr Park's gun and thirty-six of their cutlasses and pistols, some elephant tusks, ostrich feathers, leopard-skins, and a variety of seeds had all been lost, as well as their remaining cowries, ...

— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston

... is, Take place, or sit down. If you talk of bathing, they will advise you to dook oonder; and should a mother present her baby to you she will call it her smook barn, her pretty bairn or child, smook being the Norse word for pretty. And it is a curious fact, worthy of particular note, that all the mothers in Norway think their bairns smook, very smook! and they never hesitate to tell you so; why, I cannot imagine, unless it be that if you were not told, you would not be likely to find ...

— Chasing the Sun • R.M. Ballantyne

... on toward the light. The barking of the dog continued, but it was not a note of warning but of welcome, and as the horseman drew rein by a camp-fire a huge brute sprang up and greeted him with every manifestation of delight, while a man came forward from the shadows ...

— Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer - The Stranger in Camp • Colonel Prentiss Ingraham

... would at last decide Napoleon to remain at peace, instead of forever hazarding his glory, and to work for the welfare of the people in harmony with the wise and virtuous monarch whose adopted son he would become. M. de Narbonne sent a note of this conversation to Fouche, to be shown to the Emperor, who thus had knowledge of the secret plans of the Viennese court six weeks before the meeting over which he presided at the Tuileries, to ask his councillors their opinion on ...

— The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise • Imbert De Saint-Amand

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