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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

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— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... her room, and Edna paused in the brilliantly lighted parlors to read a note, which had been handed to her ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... so sweet the calling of the thrushes, The calling, cooing, wooing, everywhere; So sweet the water's song through reeds and rushes, The plover's piping note, now here, now ...

— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs. Surely these were fine things to put into little cakes! After Claude left her, he did something a Wheeler didn't do; he went down to O street and sent her a box of the reddest roses he could find. In his pocket was the little note she had written ...

— One of Ours • Willa Cather

... many attractions of the new scheme. Greatly to her annoyance, Wharton came forward to her help, guaranteeing the solvency and permanence of her new partnership in glib and pleasant phrase, wherein her angry fancy suspected at once the note of irony. But Mrs. Jellison held firm, embroidering her negative, indeed, with her usual cheerful chatter, but sticking to it all the same. At last there was no way of saving dignity but to talk of something else and go—above all, to talk of something else before going, lest the would-be ...

— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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