note

See also: Note, noté, and Nöte

note - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nəʊt/
  • (General American) enPR: nōt, IPA: /noʊt/

Noun

note (countable and uncountable, plural notes)

  1. A symbol or annotation.
    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.
    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.
  2. A written or printed communication or commitment.
    1. A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
      • I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.
    2. A short informal letter; a billet.
    3. (academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
    4. A diplomatic missive or written communication.
    5. (finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
    6. (obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.
    7. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
      • I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.
      • Synonym: bill
    8. (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
  3. (music) A sound.
    1. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
    2. A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
    3. (by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
    4. (by extension) A call or song of a bird.
  4. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
  5. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
    • a poet of note
  6. A critical comment.
    • Your performance was fantastic! I have just one note: you were a little flat in bars 35 and 36.
  7. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
  8. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

  • Belarusian: но́та f (nóta)
  • Bulgarian: но́та (bg) f (nóta)
  • Czech: nóta (cs) f
  • Finnish: nootti (fi)
  • Georgian: დიპლომატიური ნოტა (diṗlomaṭiuri noṭa), ნოტა (noṭa)
  • Greek: διακοίνωση (el) f (diakoínosi)
  • Macedonian: нота f (nota)
  • Polish: nota (pl) f
  • Romanian: notă (ro) f
  • Russian: но́та (ru) f (nóta)
  • Slovene: nota (sl) f
  • Ukrainian: но́та f (nóta)
  • Finnish: velkakirja (fi)
  • Greek: υποσχετική επιστολή f (yposchetikí epistolí)

Verb

note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle noting, simple past and past participle noted)

  1. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
    • If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.
  2. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
    • We noted his speech.
  3. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
    • The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x-1.
  4. (transitive) To annotate.
  5. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
  6. (transitive, law) 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.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Bulgarian: отбелязвам (bg) (otbeljazvam)
  • Catalan: anotar (ca)
  • Chinese:
  • Dutch: noteren (nl)
  • Finnish: kommentoida (fi), huomauttaa (fi)
  • Greek: επισημειώνω (episimeióno), σχολιάζω (el) (scholiázo), υπομνηματίζω (el) (ypomnimatízo)
  • Macedonian: прибеле́жува (pribeléžuva)
  • Portuguese: anotar (pt)
  • Romanian: adnota (ro), însemna pe margine
  • Spanish: anotar (es)
  • Bulgarian: нотирам (notiram)
  • Dutch: noteren (nl)
  • Estonian: noteerima
  • Finnish: nuotittaa
  • Macedonian: ноти́ра (notíra)

Alternative forms

Noun

note (usually uncountable, plural notes)

  1. (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
  2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.

Anagrams

note - Afrikaans

Noun

note

  1. plural of noot

note - Danish

Noun

note c (singular definite noten, plural indefinite noter)

  1. note

Inflection

common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative note noten noter noterne
genitive notes notens noters noternes

Verb

note

  1. (mechanics) To supply a board to a groove.

Conjugation

da-conj-base

note - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nɔt/

Noun

note f (plural notes)

  1. note (written or spoken)
  2. mark (UK), grade (US)
  3. bill (UK, US), check (US)
  4. (music) note
  5. touch, hint, note

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: not

Verb

note

  1. inflection of noter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

note - Galician

Verb

note

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of notar

note - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈnɔ.te/
  • Hyphenation: nò‧te

Adjective

note

  1. feminine plural of noto

Noun

note f

  1. plural of nota

Anagrams

note - Latin

Participle

nōte

  1. vocative masculine singular of nōtus

note - Middle Dutch

Noun

nōte f

  1. nut (fruit)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: noot
  • Limburgish: noeat (with unexpected oea)

note - Middle English

Noun

note

  1. note
  2. note: That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.

Adverb

note

  1. Alternative form of not

note - Norman

Noun

note f (plural notes)

  1. (Jersey) tune

note - Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

note m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural noter, definite plural notene)

  1. (music) a note
  2. a note in a book or text
  3. a note (communication between governments)
  4. a banknote

Derived terms

Anagrams

note - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

note m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural notar, definite plural notane)

  1. (music) a note
  2. a note in a book or text
  3. a note (communication between governments)
  4. a banknote

Derived terms


Verb

note

  1. past participle of nyta

note - Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnowt͡ʃ/, /ˈnɔt͡ʃ/

Noun

note m (plural notes)

  1. (Brazil, computing) Clipping of notebook (notebook computer).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnɔ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Portugal) IPA: /ˈnɔ.t(ɨ)/
  • Hyphenation: no‧te

Verb

note

  1. inflection of notar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

note - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈnote]

Noun

note f pl

  1. plural of notă

note - Scots

Alternative forms

Noun

note (uncountable)

  1. use; benefit
  2. necessity; occasion
  3. business; employment
  4. task; duty
  5. purpose; function; office

Verb

note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle notin, simple past nott, past participle nott or notten)

  1. To use; employ; make use of
  2. To need

note - Spanish

Verb

note

  1. inflection of notar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

note - Venetian

Alternative forms

Noun

note f (plural noti)

  1. night

note - Yola

Verb

note

  1. I do not know.
Meaning and Definition of note
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