Note : (noun)
1: a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there"
[syn: short letter, line, billet]
2: a brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment"
3: 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"
4: 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]
5: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical
sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: musical
note, tone]
6: 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" [syn: annotation,
notation]
7: high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a
scholar of great eminence" [syn: eminence, distinction,
preeminence]
8: a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling;
"there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"
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]
(verb)
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"; "mark my words" [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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Note : \Note\, v. t. [AS. hn[=i]tan to strike against, imp.
hn[=a]t.]
To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.]
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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.
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Note : \Note\ [AS. n[=a]t; ne not _ w[=a]t wot. See Not, and
Wot.]
Know not; knows not. [Obs.]
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Note : \Note\, n.
Nut. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Note : \Note\, n. [AS. notu use, profit.]
Need; needful business. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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.
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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 Based on 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.
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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 aNote : 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.
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NOTE, estates, conv., practice. The fourth part of a fine of lands: it is an
abstract of the writ of covenant and concord, and is only a, doequet taken
by the chirographer, from which he draws up the indenture. It is sometimes
taken in the old books for the concord. Cruise, Dig. tit. 35, c. 2, 51.
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