note

Meanings

Noun

• A symbol or annotation.
• A written or printed communication or commitment.
• A sound.
• Observation; notice; heed.
• Reputation; distinction.
• A critical comment.
• Notification; information; intelligence.
• Mark of disgrace.
• That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
• The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.

Verb

• To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• To denote; to designate.
• To annotate.
• To set down in musical characters.
• To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

Related

Similar words

• blemish, blot, brand, reproach, stain, stigma, taint

Origin

• From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt and Old French note ("letter, note"), both from Latin nota ("mark, sign, remark, note").
• From Middle English note, from Old English notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō, from Proto-Indo-European *newd-. 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"). Related also to Old English notian ("to enjoy, make use of, employ"), Old English nēotan ("to use, enjoy"), Old High German niozan ("to use, enjoy"), Modern German benutzen ("to use"). Related to nait.