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TAKE NOTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does take note mean?
• TAKE NOTE (verb)
The verb TAKE NOTE has 1 sense:
1. observe with care or pay close attention to
Familiarity information: TAKE NOTE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Observe with care or pay close attention to
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
Context example:
Take note of this chemical reaction
"Take note" entails doing...:
comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
I pray you, Alleyne, to take note of this door, for I have a tale concerning it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Take note of what happens on December 15, when Jupiter and the Sun will receive electric, silvery vibrations from surprise-a-minute Uranus.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"Oh, did she?" and Mr. Dashwood gave Jo a quick look, which seemed to take note of everything she had on, from the bow in her bonnet to the buttons on her boots.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
After a few minutes, however, I could see that he did not take note of anything around him, and so ventured to draw nearer to him—the more so as my men had now crossed the wall and were closing him in.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
If you have a natal planet in Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius within five degrees of 20 degrees, then that planet will be lit up brilliantly—take note of what happens.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Nor is any occasion too small to take note of, for I have known such trifles as the dropping of a gauntlet, or the flicking of a breadcrumb, when well and properly followed up, lead to a most noble spear-running.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You’ll be passionate about your causes, the reason influential people will take note and be persuaded to help you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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