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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note \Note\, v. t. [AS. hn[=i]tan to strike against, imp. hn[=a]t.] To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note \Note\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noted}; p. pr & vb n. {Noting}.] [F. noter, L. notare fr nota. See {Note}, n.] 1. To notice with care to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to --Pope. No more of that I have noted it well --Shak. 2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of Every unguarded word . . . was noted down --Maccaulay. 3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.] They were both noted of incontinency. --Dryden. 4. To denote; to designate. --Johnson. 5. To annotate. [R.] --W. H. Dixon. 6. To set down in musical characters. {To note a bill} or {draft}, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note \Note\ [AS. n[=a]t; ne not + w[=a]t wot. See {Not}, and {Wot}.] Know not knows not [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note \Note\, n. Nut. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note \Note\, n. [AS. notu use profit.] Need needful business. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note \Note\, n. [F. note, L. nota; akin to noscere notum, to know See {Know}.] 1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. --Hooker. She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. --J. H. Newman. What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! --Mrs. Humphry Ward. 2. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. 3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. --Felton. 4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. 5. pl Hence a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said as to preach from notes; also a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings. 6. A short informal letter; a billet. 7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. 8. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. 9. A list of items or of charges; an account. [Obs.] Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. --Shak. 10. (Mus.) a A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: b A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. c A key of the piano or organ. The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. --Milton. That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. --W. Pater. 11. Observation; notice; heed. Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence --Shak. 12. Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.] The king . . . shall have note of this --Shak. 13. State of being under observation. [Obs.] Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. --Bacon. 14. Reputation; distinction; as a poet of note. There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. --Prescott. 15. Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.] --Shak. {Note of hand}, a promissory note. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise in also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding. d To bring into being to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18. God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton. e To give rise to to set agoing; to occasion; to start to originate; as to raise a smile or a blush. Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1. f To give vent or utterance to to utter; to strike up Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden. g To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as to raise a point of order to raise an objection. 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator. 5. (Naut.) a To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it as to raise Sandy Hook light. b To let go as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets. 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as to raise a use that is to create it --Burrill. {To raise a blockade} (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it or by driving them away or dispersing them {To raise a check}, {note}, {bill of exchange}, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr accommodare: cf F. accommodation.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to ``The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.'' --Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as the accommodations -- that is lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. ``To come to terms of accommodation.'' --Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. 6. (Com.) a A loan of money. b An accommodation bill or note. {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from or descending to small boats. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: note n 1: a brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment" 2: a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" [syn: {short letter}, {line}] 3: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: {musical note}, {tone}] 4: a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice" 5: a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm" 6: a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: {bill}, {government note}, {bank bill}, {banker's bill}, {bank note}, {banknote}, {Federal Reserve note}, {greenback}] 7: a comment (usually added to a text); "his notes were appended at the end of the article" [syn: {annotation}, {notation}] 8: high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence" [syn: {eminence}, {distinction}, {preeminence}] 9: a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time; "I had to co-sign his note at the bank" [syn: {promissory note}, {note of hand}] v 1: make mention of "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing" [syn: {observe}, {mention}, {remark}] 2: notice or perceive; "She noted that someone was following her" [syn: {notice}, {mark}] [ant: {ignore}] 3: observe with care or pay close attention to "Take note of this chemical reaction" [syn: {take note}, {observe}] 4: make a written note of "she noted everything the teacher said that morning" [syn: {take down}]
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