Note vs. Denote

Notenoun

(heading) A symbol or annotation.

Denoteverb

(transitive) To indicate; to mark.

‘The yellow blazes denote the trail.’;

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.

Denoteverb

(transitive) To make overt.

‘The tears denoted her true feelings.’;

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.

Denoteverb

(transitive) To refer to literally; to convey as meaning.

‘"Pre-" denotes "before."’;

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.

Denoteverb

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.

‘The better to denote her to the doctor.’;

Notenoun

(heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.

Denoteverb

To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.

‘A general expression to denote wickedness of every sort.’;

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.’;

Denoteverb

be a sign or indication of;

‘Her smile denoted that she agreed’;

Notenoun

A short informal letter; a billet.

Denoteverb

have as a meaning;

‘`multi-' denotes `many'’;

Notenoun

A diplomatic missive or written communication.

Denoteverb

make known; make an announcement;

‘She denoted her feelings clearly’;

Notenoun

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

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

Notenoun

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

Notenoun

A piece of paper money; a banknote.

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

Notenoun

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

Notenoun

A sound.

Notenoun

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

Notenoun

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

Notenoun

(extension) A key of the piano or organ.

Notenoun

(uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.

Notenoun

(uncountable) Reputation; distinction.

‘a poet of note’;

Notenoun

(obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.

Notenoun

(obsolete) Mark of disgrace.

Notenoun

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

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.

Noteverb

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

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

Noteverb

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

‘We noted his speech.’;

Noteverb

(transitive) To denote; to designate.

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

Noteverb

(transitive) To annotate.

Noteverb

(transitive) To set down in musical characters.

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.

Noteverb

To butt; to push with the horns.

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.’;

Noteverb

To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

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

Noteverb

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

‘They were both noted of incontinency.’;

Noteverb

To denote; to designate.

Noteverb

To annotate.

Noteverb

To set down in musical characters.

Note

Know not; knows not.

Notenoun

Nut.

Notenoun

Need; needful business.

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 !’;

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.

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.’;

Notenoun

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

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.

Notenoun

A short informal letter; a billet.

Notenoun

A diplomatic missive or written communication.

Notenoun

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

Notenoun

A list of items or of charges; an account.

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

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.’;

Notenoun

Observation; notice; heed.

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

Notenoun

Notification; information; intelligence.

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

Notenoun

State of being under observation.

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

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.’;

Notenoun

Stigma; brand; reproach.

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’;