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note is a noun and verb meaning "a brief written record". It carries 13 recorded senses.
a brief written record
“he made a note of the appointment”
a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
“the singer held the note too long”
a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling
“there was a note of uncertainty in his voice”
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”
a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
“he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes”
a comment or instruction (usually added)
“his notes were appended at the end of the article”
“he added a short notation to the address on the envelope”
high status importance owing to marked superiority
“a scholar of great eminence”
a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
“I had to co-sign his note at the bank”
make a written note of
“she noted everything the teacher said that morning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for note come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.