note : Idioms & Phrases

• a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. Cant, U.S.

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• (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.

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• (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

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Aft"er-note` noun

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1. (Mus.) One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

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• noun a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
  bank bill; banknote; bill; banker's bill; note; Federal Reserve note; bank note; greenback.
  
  • he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

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Bank" note`

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1. A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand. ✍ In the United States popularly called a bank bill.
2. Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. Obs.
3. A promissory note payable at a bank.

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• a publication containing a description of genuine and counterfeit bank notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them.

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• a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches.

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• noun a flattened third or seventh
  

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• noun a United States bill worth 100 dollars
  hundred dollar bill.
  

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• the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham.

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• . (a) (Com.) See under Credit. (b) (Diplomacy) A letter addressed in identical terms to a number of persons.

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• a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches.

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• noun a note payable on demand
  

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• (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes.

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• (Mus.), a note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See Breve.

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• (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through.

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• noun a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
  quaver.
  

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• (Mus.), the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.

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• noun a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
  bank bill; banknote; bill; banker's bill; note; Federal Reserve note; bank note; greenback.
  
  • he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

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• noun a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
  bank bill; banknote; bill; banker's bill; note; Federal Reserve note; bank note; greenback.
  
  • he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

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• noun an embellishing note usually written in smaller size
  acciaccatura; appoggiatura.
  

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• (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above.

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• noun a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
  minim.
  

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• (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve.

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• . (a) The note of a hedge bird. (b) Low, contemptible writing. Obs. Dryden.

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• (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

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• verb maintain in the forefront of one's awareness
  
  • He kept note of the location of the soldiers

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• (Mus.), the seventh note or tone in the ascending major scale; the sensible note.

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• noun special attention with intent to remember
  
  • he made a mental note to send her flowers

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• noun a municipal debt instrument with a maturity of less than 2 years
  

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• noun a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
  note; tone.
  
  • the singer held the note too long

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• noun five dollars worth of a drug
  nickel.
  
  • a nickel bag of drugs
  • a nickel deck of heroin

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• noun a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
  note; note of hand.
  
  • I had to co-sign his note at the bank

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• a promissory note.

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Note" pa`per

Definitions

1. Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.

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• noun a note promising to pay a certain amount of money at a certain time
  

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• noun your right in a promissory note in which the maker promises to pay a certain amount of money at a certain time
  

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• noun (music) the relative duration of a musical note
  time value; value.
  

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• . See under Paper.

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• noun a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes
  passing tone.
  

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• (Mus.), a character including a passing tone.

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• (Mus.), the note which is held or sustained through an organ point. See Organ point, under Organ.

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Post" note`

Definitions

1. (Com.) A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.

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• an order payable to bearer, for a sum of money (in the United States less than five dollars under existing law), issued from one post office and payable at another specified office.

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• noun a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
  note; note of hand.
  
  • I had to co-sign his note at the bank

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• (Law), a written promise to pay to some person named, and at a time specified therein, or on demand, or at sight, a certain sum of money, absolutely and at all events; frequently called a note of hand.

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Prompt"-note` noun

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1. (Com.) A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.

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• noun a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
  crotchet.
  

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• (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet.

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• (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone.

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• noun a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note
  semiquaver.
  

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• (Mus.), the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.

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• noun a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
  hemidemisemiquaver.
  

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• (Mus.), the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.

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• a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. Eng.

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• verb refer to or be relevant or familiar to
  hit home; strike a chord; strike home.
  
  • I hope this message hits home!

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• verb observe with care or pay close attention to
  note; observe.
  
  • Take note of this chemical reaction

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• noun a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note
  demisemiquaver.
  

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• (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.

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• noun a note that specifies the time (or times) of repayment
  

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• to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

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• (Law), to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by the nonacceptance or the nonpayment of the bill or note, as the case may be. This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.

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• etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. or money order

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• to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. Cant, U.S.

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• noun securities with maturities of 1 to 10 years; sold for cash or in exchange for maturing issues or at auction
  

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• (U. S. Finance), a circulating note or bill issued by government authority from the Treasury Department, and receivable in payment of dues to the government.

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• noun a birdcall having two notes
  
  • the two-note call of the cuckoo

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• noun a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)
  semibreve.
  

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• (Mus.), the note which represents a note of longest duration in common use; a semibreve.

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Wood"-note` noun

Etymology

Wood, n. + note.

Definitions

1. A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. R.

   Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton.

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