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English Dictionary: note	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
note n a brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment" a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" Synonym(s): note, short letter, line, billet a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" Synonym(s): note, musical note, tone a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice" a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm" a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" Synonym(s): bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" Synonym(s): note, annotation, notation high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence" Synonym(s): eminence, distinction, preeminence, note a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time; "I had to co-sign his note at the bank" Synonym(s): note, promissory note, note of hand v make mention of; "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing" Synonym(s): note, observe, mention, remark notice or perceive; "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words" Synonym(s): notice, mark, note Antonym(s): ignore observe with care or pay close attention to; "Take note of this chemical reaction" Synonym(s): note, take note, observe make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning" Synonym(s): note, take down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note \Note\ [AS. n[be]t; ne not + w[be]t wot. See {Not}, and {Wot}.] Know not; knows not. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note \Note\, n. Nut. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note \Note\, n. [AS. notu use, profit.] Need; needful business. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note \Note\, n. [F. note, L. nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See {Know}.] 1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. --Hooker. She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. --J. H. Newman. What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! --Mrs. Humphry Ward. 2. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. 3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. --Felton. 4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. 5. pl. Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings. 6. A short informal letter; a billet. 7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. 8. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. 9. A list of items or of charges; an account. [Obs.] Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. --Shak. 10. (Mus.) (a) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: (b) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. (c) A key of the piano or organ. The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. --Milton. That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. --W. Pater. 11. Observation; notice; heed. Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence. --Shak. 12. Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.] The king . . . shall have note of this. --Shak. 13. State of being under observation. [Obs.] Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. --Bacon. 14. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note. There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. --Prescott. 15. Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.] --Shak. {Note of hand}, a promissory note.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note \Note\, v. t. [AS. hn[c6]tan to strike against, imp. hn[be]t.] To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note \Note\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Noting}.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See {Note}, n.] 1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. --Pope. No more of that; I have noted it well. --Shak. 2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. --Maccaulay. 3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.] They were both noted of incontinency. --Dryden. 4. To denote; to designate. --Johnson. 5. To annotate. [R.] --W. H. Dixon. 6. To set down in musical characters. {To note a bill} [or] {draft}, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise in also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding. (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18. God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton. (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1. (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden. (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator. 5. (Naut.) (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets. 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. --Burrill. {To raise a blockade} (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. {To raise a check}, {note}, {bill of exchange}, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accommodation \Accom`moda"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. [bd]The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.[b8] --Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. [bd]To come to terms of accommodation.[b8] --Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. 6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.