Notate vs. Note

Notate vs. Note — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Notate and Note

Notateverb

To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored.

Notenoun

(heading) A symbol or annotation.

Notateverb

To add notes to; to annotate

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.

Notateverb

To create notation (i.e. music); to record/put down in the form of notation

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.

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Notateadjective

(botany) Marked with coloured spots or lines.

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.

Notateverb

put into notation, as of music or choreography;

Nowadays, you can notate an entire ballet; in the old days, the steps had to be memorized

Notenoun

(heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.

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.

Notenoun

A short informal letter; a billet.

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Notenoun

A diplomatic missive or written communication.

Notenoun

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

a promissory notea note of handa 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.

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 notethere was a note of gaiety in her mannerhe 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 articlehe 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 timeThey noted that it was a fine day to go sailing

Noteverb

notice or perceive;

She noted that someone was following hermark 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