NOTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does notate mean? 

• NOTATE (verb)
  The verb NOTATE has 1 sense:

1. put into notation, as of music or choreography

  Familiarity information: NOTATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they notate    ... he / she / it notates   
Past simple: notated   
Past participle: notated   
-ing form: notating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into notation, as of music or choreography

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Nowadays, you can notate an entire ballet; in the old days, the steps had to be memorized

Hypernyms (to "notate" is one way to...):

get down; put down; set down; write down (put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

notation (the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters)

notation (a technical system of symbols used to represent special things)