Note vs. Bill

Notenoun

(heading) A symbol or annotation.

Billnoun

Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

Notenoun

A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.

Billnoun

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

Notenoun

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.

Billnoun

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

Notenoun

A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.

Billnoun

A pickaxe, or mattock.

Notenoun

(heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.

Billnoun

(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

Notenoun

A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

‘I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.’;

Billnoun

The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

Notenoun

A short informal letter; a billet.

Billnoun

A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

Notenoun

A diplomatic missive or written communication.

Billnoun

Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

Notenoun

(finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment

‘a promissory note’; ‘a note of hand’; ‘a negotiable note’;

Billnoun

A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

Notenoun

(obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.

Billnoun

A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

Notenoun

A piece of paper money; a banknote.

‘I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.’;

Billnoun

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Notenoun

(extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.

Billnoun

A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

Notenoun

A sound.

Billnoun

(US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.

Notenoun

A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.

Billnoun

A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

Notenoun

A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.

Billnoun

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

Notenoun

(extension) A key of the piano or organ.

Billnoun

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

Notenoun

(uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.

Billnoun

A set of items presented together.

Notenoun

(uncountable) Reputation; distinction.

‘a poet of note’;

Billverb

(transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Notenoun

(obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.

Billverb

(obsolete) To peck.

Notenoun

(obsolete) Mark of disgrace.

Billverb

To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.

Notenoun

That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.

Billverb

(transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Notenoun

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.

Billverb

(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.

Noteverb

(transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.

‘If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.’;

Billnoun

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

Noteverb

(transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

‘We noted his speech.’;

Billnoun

The bell, or boom, of the bittern

‘The bittern's hollow bill was heard.’;

Noteverb

(transitive) To denote; to designate.

‘The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x^-1.’;

Billnoun

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; - used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

Noteverb

(transitive) To annotate.

Billnoun

A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.

‘France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills.’;

Noteverb

(transitive) To set down in musical characters.

Billnoun

One who wields a bill; a billman.

Noteverb

(transitive) 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.

Billnoun

A pickax, or mattock.

Noteverb

To butt; to push with the horns.

Billnoun

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

Noteverb

To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.

‘No more of that; I have noted it well.’; ‘The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.’;

Billnoun

A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

Noteverb

To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

‘Every unguarded word . . . was noted down.’;

Billnoun

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.

Noteverb

To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.

‘They were both noted of incontinency.’;

Billnoun

A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Noteverb

To denote; to designate.

Billnoun

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.

‘She put up the bill in her parlor window.’;

Noteverb

To annotate.

Billnoun

An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

Noteverb

To set down in musical characters.

Billnoun

Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.

Note

Know not; knows not.

Billverb

To strike; to peck.

Notenoun

Nut.

Billverb

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

Notenoun

Need; needful business.

Billverb

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

Notenoun

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.’; ‘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.’; ‘What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !’;

Billverb

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Notenoun

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.

Billverb

To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

Notenoun

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.’;

Billnoun

a statute in draft before it becomes law;

‘they held a public hearing on the bill’;

Notenoun

A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

Billnoun

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;

‘he paid his bill and left’; ‘send me an account of what I owe’;

Notenoun

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.

Billnoun

a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank);

‘he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes’;

Notenoun

A short informal letter; a billet.

Billnoun

the entertainment offered at a public presentation

Notenoun

A diplomatic missive or written communication.

Billnoun

a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)

Notenoun

A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.

Billnoun

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution;

‘he mailed the circular to all subscribers’;

Notenoun

A list of items or of charges; an account.

‘Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.’;

Billnoun

horny projecting mouth of a bird

Notenoun

A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:

‘The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note.’; ‘That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann.’;

Billnoun

a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement;

‘a poster advertised the coming attractions’;

Notenoun

Observation; notice; heed.

‘Give orders to my servants that they takeNo note at all of our being absent hence.’;

Billnoun

a long-handled saw with a curved blade;

‘he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree’;

Notenoun

Notification; information; intelligence.

‘The king . . . shall have note of this.’;

Billnoun

a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes;

‘he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead’;

Notenoun

State of being under observation.

‘Small matters . . . continually in use and in note.’;

Billverb

demand payment;

‘Will I get charged for this service?’; ‘We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights’;

Notenoun

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.’;

Billverb

advertise especially by posters or placards;

‘He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso’;

Notenoun

Stigma; brand; reproach.

Billverb

publicize or announce by placards

Notenoun

a short personal letter;

‘drop me a line when you get there’;

Notenoun

a brief written record;

‘he made a note of the appointment’;

Notenoun

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’;

Notenoun

a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank);

‘he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes’;

Notenoun

a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;

‘the singer held the note too long’;

Notenoun

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’;

Notenoun

high status importance owing to marked superiority;

‘a scholar of great eminence’;

Notenoun

a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling;

‘there was a note of uncertainty in his voice’;

Notenoun

a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time;

‘I had to co-sign his note at the bank’;

Noteverb

make mention of;

‘She observed that his presentation took up too much time’; ‘They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing’;

Noteverb

notice or perceive;

‘She noted that someone was following her’; ‘mark my words’;

Noteverb

observe with care or pay close attention to;

‘Take note of this chemical reaction’;

Noteverb

make a written note of;

‘she noted everything the teacher said that morning’;