Definition of: note

(nōt) noun
1. That by which anything may be known; an outward sign.
2. A mark or character used in writing or printing to indicate or call attention to something: a note of interrogation (?) or exclamation (!).
3. A brief comment appended to text.
4. A brief record or summary; a memorandum.
5. A complete record or report: Make a note of that statement.
6. An official communication in writing from one government to another.
7. A brief letter; a billet.
8. Logic A distinctive mark or character of an object such as its qualities afford.
9. Notice; observation.
10. An account or bill.
11. High importance, estimation, or repute; distinction: something of note.
12. Music a An oval character in musical notation, either solid or formed in outline, used to indicate the length of a tone, and also, as placed on a staff, to point out, in conjunction with the signature, the pitch and relative position in a scale system. b Loosely, any musical sound: The first notes of the fiddles were heard. c A key of the keyboard.
13. Physics Tone (def. 2): the preferable word in this sense.
14. A melodious or vocal sound, as of a bird; voice; tone.
15. Manner of speaking.
16. A signed promise by one party to another to pay a certain sum of money at a specified time: a promissory note; a bank note.
17. The general tone, coloring, or quality of a painting. See synonyms under REMARK, SIGN, SOUND.
—v.t. not·ed, not·ing
1. To take notice or note of; observe; remark.
2. To set down, as in writing; make a note of.
3. To mention specially or separately in the course of writing.
4. To annotate.
5. To set down in musical notation. [<OF <L nota a mark, orig. pp. fem. of noscere know]
—not′er noun
NOTES
a. Whole note.
b. Half note.
c. Quarter note.
d. Eighth note.
e. Sixteenth note.
f. Thirty-second note.
g. Sixty-fourth note.