NOTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does note mean? 

• NOTE (noun)
  The noun NOTE has 9 senses:

1. a brief written record

2. a short personal letter

3. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

4. a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling

5. a characteristic emotional quality

6. a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

7. a comment or instruction (usually added)

8. high status importance owing to marked superiority

9. a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time

  Familiarity information: NOTE used as a noun is familiar.

• NOTE (verb)
  The verb NOTE has 4 senses:

1. make mention of

2. notice or perceive

3. observe with care or pay close attention to

4. make a written note of

  Familiarity information: NOTE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brief written record

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he made a note of the appointment

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "note"):

marginalia (notes written in the margin)

memo; memoranda; memorandum (a written proposal or reminder)

minute (a short note)

jot; jotting (a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note)

Derivation:

note (make a written note of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A short personal letter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

billet; line; note; short letter

Context example:

drop me a line when you get there

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

personal letter (a letter dealing with personal affairs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "note"):

excuse (a note explaining an absence)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

musical note; note; tone

Context example:

the singer held the note too long

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "note"):

passing note; passing tone (a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes)

crotchet; quarter note (a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note)

semibreve; whole note (a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time))

half note; minim (a musical note having the time value of half a whole note)

eighth note; quaver (a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note)

semiquaver; sixteenth note (a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note)

demisemiquaver; thirty-second note (a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note)

hemidemisemiquaver; sixty-fourth note (a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note)

acciaccatura; appoggiatura; grace note (an embellishing note usually written in smaller size)

blue note (a flattened third or seventh)

monotone (a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts))

middle C (the note designated by the first ledger line below the treble staff; 261.63 hertz)

shake; trill (a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it)

pedal; pedal point (a sustained bass note)

leading tone; subtonic ((music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale)

submediant ((music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic))

dominant ((music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale)

subdominant ((music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale)

mediant ((music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant)

supertonic ((music) the second note of a diatonic scale)

keynote; tonic ((music) the first note of a diatonic scale)

chord (a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together)

Holonyms ("note" is a member of...):

musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

there was a note of uncertainty in his voice

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

tone; tone of voice (the quality of a person's voice)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A characteristic emotional quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he detected a note of sarcasm

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

air; atmosphere; aura (a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note

Context example:

he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

folding money; paper currency; paper money (currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "note"):

fifty; fifty dollar bill (a United States bill worth 50 dollars)

buck; clam; dollar; dollar bill; one dollar bill (a piece of paper money worth one dollar)

two dollar bill (a United States bill worth 2 dollars)

five-spot; five dollar bill; fiver (a United States bill worth 5 dollars)

ten dollar bill; tenner (a United States bill worth 10 dollars)

twenty; twenty dollar bill (a United States bill worth 20 dollars)

c-note; hundred dollar bill (a United States bill worth 100 dollars)

silver certificate (formerly a bank note issued by the United States Treasury and redeemable in silver)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A comment or instruction (usually added)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

annotation; notation; note

Context example:

he added a short notation to the address on the envelope

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

comment; commentary (a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "note"):

poste restante (a notation written on mail that is to be held at the post office until called for (not in the United States or Canada))

acknowledgment; citation; cite; credit; mention; quotation; reference (a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage)

footer; footnote (a printed note placed below the text on a printed page)

N.B.; NB; nota bene (a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something)

postscript; PS (a note appended to a letter after the signature)

Derivation:

annotate (provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases)

annotate (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

note (make mention of)

Sense 8

Meaning:

High status importance owing to marked superiority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

distinction; eminence; note; preeminence

Context example:

a scholar of great eminence

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

high status (a position of superior status)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "note"):

king (preeminence in a particular category or group or field)

Sense 9

Meaning:

A promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

note; note of hand; promissory note

Context example:

I had to co-sign his note at the bank

Hypernyms ("note" is a kind of...):

certificate of indebtedness; debt instrument; obligation (a written promise to repay a debt)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "note"):

demand note (a note payable on demand)

note receivable (your right in a promissory note in which the maker promises to pay a certain amount of money at a certain time)

note payable (a note promising to pay a certain amount of money at a certain time)

municipal note (a municipal debt instrument with a maturity of less than 2 years)

IOU (an informal debt instrument; representing 'I owe you')

time note (a note that specifies the time (or times) of repayment)

• NOTE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make mention of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

mention; note; observe; remark

Context example:

They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing

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

say; state; tell (express in words)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "note"):

comment; notice; point out; remark (make or write a comment on)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

note (a comment or instruction (usually added))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Notice or perceive

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

mark; note; notice

Context example:

mark my words

"Note" entails doing...:

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "note"):

take notice (observe with special attention)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Observe with care or pay close attention to

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

note; observe; take note

Context example:

Take note of this chemical reaction

"Note" entails doing...:

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make a written note of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

note; take down

Context example:

she noted everything the teacher said that morning

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

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

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

notation (a comment or instruction (usually added))

note (a brief written record)

 Context examples 

Tissue composition of the breast noted on sonography.

(Breast Background Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

I noted that the boats were missing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Necrotic changes may be noted in large tumors.

(Benign Phyllodes Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Jo hardly heard her, for she and her mother were reading the note, which was written in a peculiar hand.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had a note from him this morning, in which he says: ‘I think that this case is very much in your line.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His voice lost its querulous and whimpering note, and became strong and positive.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

EXAMPLE(S): to capture the reasons of statuses or other notes.

(Document Version Workflow Status Comment, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

There was a new note in his mate's warning snarl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Senior author Dr. Tae-Jin Song of Ewha Womans University in Seoul noted that the findings don’t prove causation, but the analysis is strong.

(Frequently brushing teeth may help prevent heart attacks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers note that for venomous snakes other than the ‘big four’ there is no specific anti-venom.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)