note¹ /nōt/

1. A significant or distinguishing mark
2. A characteristic
3. That by which a person or thing is known
4. A significant tone or hint
5. A mark or sign calling attention
6. A written or printed symbol other than a letter
7. A stigma or mark of censure
8. An observation or remark
9. A comment attached to a text, explanatory, illustrative, critical, or recording textual variants
10. A brief written record, esp a jotting set down provisionally for use afterwards
11. An impression
12. A quality, hint or suggestion (of eg warning)
13. A short statement or record
14. A bill or account (obsolete)
15. A memorandum
16. A short informal letter
17. A formal, esp diplomatic, paper or letter
18. A small size of paper used for writing
19. A mark representing a sound (whole note a semibreve) (music)
20. The sound or tone represented by the printed or written note
21. A key of a piano or other instrument
22. The song, cry or utterance of a bird or other animal
23. A tune (obsolete)
24. Music (poetic)
25. A paper acknowledging a debt and promising payment, such as a note of hand or promissory note and esp a banknote
26. A voucher or receipt (obsolete)
27. Notice
28. Attention
29. Cognizance
30. Distinction
31. Reputation
32. Eminence
33. Importance
34. Consequence
35. Notability
36. Intimation (Shakespeare)

1. To make a note of
2. To notice
3. To pay close attention to
4. To indicate, show
5. To mark
6. To stigmatize (obsolete)
7. To mention, remark on
8. To record in writing or in musical notation
9. To add musical notation to
10. To set to music
11. To annotate
12. To denote

nōtˈal adjective

nōtˈed adjective

1. Marked
2. Well-known
3. Celebrated
4. Eminent
5. Notorious

nōtˈedly adverb

nōtˈedness noun

noteˈless adjective

1. Not attracting notice
2. Unmusical

noteˈlet noun

1. A short annotation or letter
2. A folded sheet of notepaper, usu with printed decoration, for short informal letters

nōtˈer noun

1. A person who notes or observes
2. A person who makes notes, an annotator

noteˈworthily adverb

noteˈworthiness noun

noteˈworthy adjective

Worthy of note or of notice

noteˈbook noun

1. A book for keeping notes or memoranda
2. A small portable computer, orig one smaller than a laptop

noteˈcase noun

A wallet for banknotes

note of hand noun

A promissory note

noteˈ-pad noun

A block of paper for writing notes

noteˈpaper noun

Writing paper intended for letters

note row noun (music)

A tone row

noteˈ-shavˈer noun (US)

1. A person who discounts bills at an exorbitant rate
2. A usurer

note a bill

To record, with a notary public, one's refusal as a merchant to accept a bill of exchange

of note

1. Well-known, distinguished
2. Significant, worthy of attention

strike the right (or a false) note

To act or speak appropriately (or inappropriately)

take note

To observe carefully or closely (often with of)

whole /hōl/

1. Not broken
2. Undamaged
3. Not broken up, or ground, or deprived of any part
4. Containing the total amount, number, etc
5. Complete
6. (of a sister or brother) full-blooded, related through both parents
7. As yet unworked (mining)
8. From which no constituents have been removed, as in whole blood, milk, etc
9. Processed as little as possible
10. Sound in health (archaic)
11. Uninjured
12. Restored to health
13. Healed

1. The entire thing
2. Not less than, all (with of)
3. Something complete in itself, esp if an integrated system or combination of parts

1. Completely, altogether
2. In one unbroken piece, as in swallowed it whole

wholeˈness noun

wholeˈsome adjective

1. Healthy in body, taste, morals or (Shakespeare) condition
2. Indicating health
3. Conducive to bodily or spiritual health
4. Remedial (obsolete)
5. Propitious (Shakespeare)
6. Reasonable, sensible (Shakespeare)

wholeˈsomely adverb

wholeˈsomeness noun

whōˈlism noun

An alteration of holism

whōˈlist noun

whōlistˈic adjective

wholly /hōlˈli or hōˈli/ adverb

Completely, altogether

whole blood noun

Donor blood for use in transfusions, from which no constituents have been extracted

whole-body monitor noun (nuclear eng)

An assembly of large scintillation detectors, heavily shielded against background radiation, used to identify and measure the gamma radiation emitted by the human body

whole cloth noun

Cloth in its full manufactured size (cut out of whole cloth (N Am inf) wholly fabricated, utterly false)

wholeˈ-coloured adjective

All of one colour

wholeˈfood noun

Food, unprocessed or processed as little as possible, produced without any artificial fertilizers or pesticides, etc

wholeˈ-footˈed adjective (informal)

Unreserved

wholeˈgrain adjective

(of bread, flour, etc) made from the complete grain, with no parts discarded during manufacture

wholeˈheartˈed adjective

Hearty, generous, zealous and sincere

wholeˈheartˈedly adverb

wholeˈ-heartˈedness noun

wholeˈ-hog adjective (slang)

Out-and-out, complete

wholeˈ-hoggˈer noun

Someone who is inclined to go the whole hog

wholeˈ-hoofed adjective

Having an undivided hoof

wholeˈ-length adjective

1. Giving the whole figure
2. Full-length

noun

A portrait or statue showing the whole figure

whole-life insurance noun

A life-insurance policy on which premiums are payable up to the death of the insured person

wholeˈmeal noun

Meal made from entire grains of wheat (also adjective)

whole milk noun

Milk from which nothing has been extracted, as distinct from skimmed or semi-skimmed milk

whole note noun (N American)

A semibreve

whole number noun

A unit, or a number composed of units, an integral number

whole-plate see under plate

wholeˈsale noun

Sale of goods, usu by the whole piece or large quantity, to a retailer

adjective

1. Buying and selling, or concerned with buying and selling, thus
2. Extensive and indiscriminate

adverb

1. By wholesale
2. Extensively and indiscriminately

transitive verb

To sell by wholesale

wholeˈsaler noun

Someone who sells by wholesale

wholeˈ-skinned adjective

1. Unhurt
2. Safe in reputation

wholeˈ-souledˈ adjective

Wholehearted

whole step noun (US)

A whole tone

wholeˈstitch noun (lace-making)

A weaving stitch used to fill in a pattern, cloth stitch

whole tone noun (music)

An interval of two semitones

wholeˈ-tone scale noun (music)

Either of two scales produced by beginning on one of any two notes a chromatic semitone apart and ascending or descending in whole tones for an octave

wholeˈwheat adjective

Wholemeal

whollˈy-owned adjective

Describing a company all of whose shares are owned by another company

as a whole

1. In general
2. Taken as a complete group, etc rather than as individuals

go the whole hog

1. To do what one is doing thoroughly or completely
2. To commit oneself to anything unreservedly

on or upon the whole

1. Generally speaking
2. All things considered

out of whole cloth see whole cloth above.

with whole skin

Safe, unscathed

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