Note
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
(2): ( n.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.
(3): ( n.) 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.
(4): ( n.) Need; needful business.
(5): ( n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
(6): ( n.) Nut.
(7): ( n.) A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
(8): ( n.) To set down in musical characters.
(9): ( n.) To annotate.
(10): ( n.) To denote; to designate.
(11): ( n.) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
(12): ( n.) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
(13): ( n.) A short informal letter; a billet.
(14): ( n.) A diplomatic missive or written communication.
(15): ( n.) Stigma; brand; reproach.
(16): ( n.) Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
(17): ( n.) State of being under observation.
(18): ( n.) Notification; information; intelligence.
(19): ( n.) Observation; notice; heed.
(20): ( n.) A key of the piano or organ.
(21): ( n.) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
(22): ( n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:
(23): ( n.) A list of items or of charges; an account.
(24): ( n.) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
(25): Know not; knows not.
(26): ( v. t.) To butt; to push with the horns.
(27): ( n.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
NOTE, for ne wote, knew not or could not.
NOTE, n. L. to know.
1. A mark or token something by which a thing may be known a visible sign.
They who appertain to the visible church have all the notes of external profession.
2. A mark made in a book, indicating something worthy of a particular notice. 3. A short remark a passage or explanation in the margin of a book. 4. A minute, memorandum or short writing intended to assist the memory. 5. Notice heed.
Give order to my servants that they take no note at all of our being absent hence.
6. Reputation consequence distinction as men of note. Acts 16 . 7. State of being observed.
Small matters, continually in use and note. Little used.
8. In music, a character which marks a sound, or the sound itself as a semibreve, a minim, &c. Notes are marks of sounds in relation to elevation or depresion, or to the time of continuing sounds. 9. Tune voice harmonious or melocious sounds.
The wakeful bird tunes her nocturnal note.
One common note on either lyre did strike.
10. Abbreviation symbol. 11. A short letter a billet. 12. Annotation commentary as the notes in Scott's Bible to write notes on Homer. 13. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt and promising payment as a promissory note a bank-note a note of hand a negotiable note. 14. Notes, plu. a writing a written discourse applied equally to minutes or heads of a discourse or argument, or to a discourse fully written. The advocate often has notes to assist his memory, and clergymen preach with notes or without them. 15. A diplomatic communication in writing an official paper sent from one minister or envoy to another.
My note of January 10th still remains unanswered.
NOTE,
1. To observe to notice with particular care to heed to attend to.
No more of that I have noted it well.
Their manners noted and their states survey'd.
2. To set down in writing.
Note it in a book. Isaiah 30 .
3. To charge, as with a crime with of or for.
They were both noted of incontinency.
NOTE, To butt to push with the horns. Not used.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
from semeion, "a sign, token," signifies "to mark, to note," in the Middle Voice, "to note for oneself," and is so used in 2—Thessalonians 3:14 , in an injunction to take cautionary note of one who refuses obedience to the Apostle's word by the Epistle. In the Sept. Psalm 5:6 .
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
nōt ( חקק , ḥāḳaḳ , רשׁם , rāsham ; σημειόω , sēmeióō , ἐπίσημος , epı́sēmos ): "Note" (verb) is the translation of ḥāḳaḳ , "to grave," "to inscribe," etc. ( Isaiah 30:8 , "note it in a book," the Revised Version (British and American) "inscribe"); of rāsham , "to note down," etc. ( Daniel 10:21 , the Revised Version (British and American) "inscribed"); of sēmeioō , "to put a sign on" ( 2 Thessalonians 3:14 , "note that man").
"Note" (noun) is the translation of episēmos , "marked upon," "distinguished" ( Romans 16:7 , "who are of note among the apostles").
"Notes" (musical) occurs in The Wisdom of Song of Solomon 19:18 , "notes of a psaltery" ( phthóggos ).
