note

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A short piece of writing to help you remember something.

   I made a note of the appointment.

2. 2
   verb

   To write something down so you remember it.

   I noted everything the teacher said that morning.

3. 3
   noun

   A single musical sound of a particular pitch.

   The singer held the note too long.

4. 4
   noun

   A piece of paper money.

   She paid with a twenty-pound note.

5. 5
   noun

   A quality in someone's voice that shows a feeling.

   There was a note of uncertainty in my voice.

Common collocations

• promissory note Adjective + noun
• sixteenth note Adjective + noun

From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High…

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