'Note' definitions:

Definition of 'note'

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noun
A brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment"
noun
A short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" [syn: note, short letter, line, billet]
noun
A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: note, musical note, tone]
noun
A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"
noun
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"
noun
A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback]
noun
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" [syn: note, annotation, notation]
noun
High status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence" [syn: eminence, distinction, preeminence, note]
noun
A promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time; "I had to co-sign his note at the bank" [syn: note, promissory note, note of hand]
verb
Make mention of; "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing" [syn: note, observe, mention, remark]
verb
Notice or perceive; "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words" [syn: notice, mark, note] [ant: ignore]
verb
Observe with care or pay close attention to; "Take note of this chemical reaction" [syn: note, take note, observe]
verb
Make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning" [syn: note, take down]

Definition of 'Note'

From: GCIDE
  • Note \Note\ (n[=o]t), v. t. [AS. hn[imac]tan to strike against, imp. hn[=a]t.] To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Note'

From: GCIDE
  • Note \Note\ (n[=o]t). [AS. n[=a]t; ne not + w[=a]t wot. See Not, and Wot.] Know not; knows not. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Note'

From: GCIDE
  • Note \Note\, n. Nut. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Note'

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  • Note \Note\, n. [AS. notu use, profit.] Need; needful business. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Note'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! --Mrs. Humphry Ward. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. --Felton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. A short informal letter; a billet. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. A list of items or of charges; an account. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. --W. Pater. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. Observation; notice; heed. [1913 Webster]
  • Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 12. Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The king . . . shall have note of this. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 13. State of being under observation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 14. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note. [1913 Webster]
  • There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
  • 15. Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note of hand, a promissory note. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Note'

From: GCIDE
  • Note \Note\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See Note, n.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • No more of that; I have noted it well. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. --Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address, 1863). [PJC]
  • 2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. [1913 Webster]
  • Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. --Maccaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • They were both noted of incontinency. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To denote; to designate. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To annotate. [R.] --W. H. Dixon. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To set down in musical characters. [1913 Webster]
  • To note a bill or To note a 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'note'

From: GCIDE
  • Raise \Raise\ (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raised (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Raising.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[imac]sa to rise. See Rise, and cf. Rear to raise.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: [1913 Webster] (a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
  • The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] (b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. [1913 Webster] (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: [1913 Webster] (a) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. [1913 Webster]
  • They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. [1913 Webster] (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. [1913 Webster]
  • He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [1913 Webster]
  • Aeneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. [1913 Webster]
  • Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. [1913 Webster]
  • I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxix. 3. [1913 Webster] (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. "To raise up a rent." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." --Johnson's Dict. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise is also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. [1913 Webster]
  • I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding. [1913 Webster] (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
  • I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18. [1913 Webster]
  • God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1. [1913 Webster] (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. [1913 Webster]
  • Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. [1913 Webster]
  • Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
  • 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.
  • To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.
  • To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure.
  • To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.]
  • To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'note'

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Words containing 'Note'