I.
noun
1 short letter
ADJECTIVE
▪ brief , little , quick , short
▪
Just a quick ~ to wish you luck.
▪ handwritten , scribbled
▪ cover ( AmE ), covering ( BrE ), credit , delivery ( BrE ), love , promissory , ransom , sick ( BrE ), suicide , thank-you
▪ Post-it™ , sticky ( esp. AmE )
▪
Never write your password on a sticky ~!
▪ crumpled
VERB + NOTE
▪ scribble (sb) , write (sb)
▪ send (sb)
▪ leave (sb)
▪
She left me a ~ to say my dinner was in the oven.
▪ pass
▪
I saw you two passing ~s during class.
▪ sign
PHRASES
▪ a ~ of thanks
2 ( often notes ) words that you write down quickly
ADJECTIVE
▪ brief
▪ copious , detailed , extensive
▪ lecture
▪ field
▪ case , clinical ( esp. BrE ), medical ( esp. BrE )
VERB + NOTE
▪ jot down , keep , make , take
▪
She kept detailed ~s of her travels.
▪ go through , look through , read through , sift through
▪ compare ( usually figurative )
▪
Let's compare ~s on our experiences.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
I've made a ~ of the book's title.
▪ ~ on
▪
The booklet has full ~s on each artist.
PHRASES
▪ make a mental ~ (of sth/to do sth)
▪
She made a mental ~ to call them in the morning.
3 ( usually notes ) extra piece of information
ADJECTIVE
▪ detailed , extensive
▪ explanatory , helpful , informative
▪ interesting
▪ introductory
▪ marginal , side
▪ biographical
▪ booklet , liner , sleeve ( BrE )
▪ briefing ( esp. BrE ), programme/program
4 ( esp. BrE ) piece of paper money ⇨ See also ↑ bill
ADJECTIVE
▪ five-pound , ten-euro , etc.
▪ crumpled
… OF NOTES
▪ bundle , roll , wad
▪
a thick wad of ~s
5 single musical sound
ADJECTIVE
▪ high , top
▪
She's a little wobbly on the top ~s.
▪ low
▪ right
▪ wrong
▪ musical
▪ dissonant
▪ whole , half , quarter , eighth , etc. (all AmE )
VERB + NOTE
▪ play , sing
▪ hit , strike
▪ hold
6 quality/feeling
ADJECTIVE
▪ brighter , cheerful , happier , hopeful , lighter , optimistic , positive , upbeat
▪
On a brighter note …
▪ related , unrelated
▪
On a completely unrelated note …
▪ discordant , false , sad , sombre/somber , sour
▪ faint
▪
a faint ~ of bitterness in his voice
▪ serious
▪ right
▪
His opening remarks struck the right ~.
▪ odd
▪ cautionary , warning
▪
He sounded a cautionary ~.
▪ personal
VERB + NOTE
▪ hit , sound , strike
▪ inject , introduce
▪
His remarks injected a ~ of levity into the proceedings.
▪ detect
▪
I detected a faint ~ of weariness in his voice.
▪ end on
▪
The conference ended on an optimistic ~.
NOTE + VERB
▪ creep into sb's voice , enter sb's voice
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
A ~ of suspicion entered his voice.
PHRASES
▪ a ~ in sb's voice
▪
There was a sad ~ in her voice.
7 notice/attention
ADJECTIVE
▪ careful
VERB + NOTE
▪ take
▪
He took careful ~ of the suspicious-looking man in the corner of the bar.
PHRASES
▪ worthy of ~
▪
The sculptures are worthy of ~.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ carefully
▪ briefly , in passing
▪
He ~d in passing that the government's record on unemployment was not very good.
▪ duly
▪
Your objections have been duly ~d.
▪
Her lapse was duly ~d by the stage manager and reported to the director.
▪ above , already , earlier , previously
▪
These policies, as ~d above, are not always successful.
▪ approvingly
▪ ruefully
▪ drily , pointedly , wryly
VERB + NOTE
▪ should
▪
Visitors should ~ that the tower is not open to the public.
▪ be important to
▪ be interesting to
▪ be pleased to
▪
I was pleased to ~ that my name had been spelled correctly for once.
PHRASES
▪ be worth noting
▪
There are a few points here that are worth noting.
▪ it must be ~d that … , it should be ~d that …
▪ a point to ~
▪
There are two other points to ~ from this graph.
Note is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ author , ↑ document , ↑ observer , ↑ panel , ↑ report , ↑ researcher
Note is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ change , ↑ difference , ↑ discrepancy , ↑ distinction , ↑ effect , ↑ importance , ↑ improvement , ↑ parallel , ↑ passing , ↑ resemblance , ↑ sarcasm , ↑ similarity , ↑ suggestion