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NOTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A characteristic emotional quality

Example:

he detected a note of sarcasm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A brief written record

Example:

he made a note of the appointment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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"):

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

marginalia (notes written in the margin)

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

minute (a short note)

Derivation:

note (make a written note of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A short personal letter

Example:

drop me a line when you get there

Synonyms:

billet; line; note; short letter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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 4

Meaning:

A comment or instruction (usually added)

Example:

he added a short notation to the address on the envelope

Synonyms:

annotation; notation; note

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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 5

Meaning:

A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

Example:

the singer held the note too long

Synonyms:

musical note; note; tone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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 6

Meaning:

A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling

Example:

there was a note of uncertainty in his voice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

Sense 7

Meaning:

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

Example:

he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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"):

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)

fifty; fifty dollar bill (a United States bill worth 50 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 8

Meaning:

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

Example:

I had to co-sign his note at the bank

Synonyms:

note; note of hand; promissory note

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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)

Sense 9

Meaning:

High status importance owing to marked superiority

Example:

a scholar of great eminence

Synonyms:

distinction; eminence; note; preeminence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make mention of

Example:

They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing

Synonyms:

mention; note; observe; remark

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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:

Make a written note of

Example:

she noted everything the teacher said that morning

Synonyms:

note; take down

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Notice or perceive

Example:

mark my words

Synonyms:

mark; note; notice

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

"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 4

Meaning:

Observe with care or pay close attention to

Example:

Take note of this chemical reaction

Synonyms:

note; observe; take note

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

"Note" entails doing...:

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

Sentence frames:

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

Note that other thresholds may be applicable.

(AV Block First Degree by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Holmes took a paper from his pocket and laid a ten-pound note upon the table.

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

Note: such as failure is often recurrent.

(Intermittent Pacing Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

"It is worth noting," Challenger continued, that our young friend has received an undoubted stab, while Lord John's coat could only have been torn by a bite.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

G. sulfidifaciens may occur in pairs, chains or singly and is most often isolated from ruminants and pigs and is not a noted human pathogen.

(Globicatella sulfidifaciens, NCI Thesaurus)

Note that the older Durie/Salmon staging system defines stage I quite differently.

(ISS Stage I Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

"Thank you, John. Mr. Rochester told me to give you and Mary this." I put into his hand a five-pound note.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It can be noted if the lesion is pre-neoplastic

(Non-Neoplastic Myeloid Disorders of Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Note that the older Durie/Salmon staging system defines stage III quite differently.

(ISS Stage III Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

But the note itself. What do you deduce from it?

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