Note vs Step - What's the difference?
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Use; employment.
* 1701 , Halliwell:
* 1912 , J. Jakobsen, Etymol. Ordbog Norrøne Sprog Shetland :
(uncountable) Utility; profit; advantage; foredeal; benefit; pains.
* 1838 , William Marriott, William Marriott (Ph. Dr.), A collection of English miracle-plays or mysteries'' (''The Deluge ):
(countable) Affair, matter, concern.
* 1566 , John Martial, A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer
(countable) Business; undertaking; task, duty; purpose.
* 1811 , Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Darley, The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Volume 2 :
* 1897 , Halifax Courier:
* 1911 , Homiletic review: Volume 62:
The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow gives milk; the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
* 1888 , S. O. Addy Gloss, ''Words Sheffield p160 :
* 1922 , P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon p11 :
* 1996 , C. I. Macafee Conc., Ulster Dict. at Note :
To use; make use of; employ.
* 1553', Gawin Douglas (translator), ''Eneados'' (original by ), reprinted in '''1710 as ''Virgil’s Æneis, Tran?ated into Scottish Ver?e, by the Famous Gawin Douglas Bi?hop of Dunkeld :
To use for food; eat.
* 1808 , Jameson:
(label) A symbol or annotation.
# A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
#* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
#* (John Henry Newman) (1801-1890)
#* (w) (1851-1920)
#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 # 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.
# A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
(label) A written or printed communication or commitment.
# A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
# A short informal letter; a billet.
# A diplomatic missive or written communication.
# (label) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note'; a '''note''' of hand; a negotiable ' note .
# (label) A list of items or of charges; an account.
#* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
# A piece of paper money; a banknote.
# (label) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
A sound.
# A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
# A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note .}}
# (label) A key of the piano or organ.
(label) Observation; notice; heed.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(label) Reputation; distinction.
(label) Notification; information; intelligence.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(label) Stigma; brand; reproach.
To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
To denote; to designate.
To annotate.
To set down in musical characters.
To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
(obsolete)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
* Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. —
(figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
* They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. — (Alexander Pope)
To set, as the foot.
(nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step ; to erect.
* 1898 , (Joseph Conrad),
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
*
*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
*Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
*:The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
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The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
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*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
*:To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
A small space or distance.
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A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
A gait; manner of walking.
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*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
*:Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step .
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
*:Beware of desperate steps . The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
*(George Washington Cable) (1844-1925)
*:I have lately taken steps to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
(lb) A walk; passage.
*(John Dryden)
*:Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
(lb) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
(lb) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
(lb) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
(lb) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
(lb) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
:Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala , a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
(lb) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
:(William Kingdon Clifford)
As nouns the difference between note and step
is that note is while step is stitch.note
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) note, . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Shetland)Noun
(en-noun)- But thefte serveth of wykked note , Hyt hangeth hys mayster by the throte.
- Der 'r nae not' in it; hit is nae ' not .
- And have thou that for thy note !
- He sayeth: It is the peculiar note of Gods servates, not to bow their knee to Baal.
- The chief note of a scholar, you say, is to govern his passions; wherefore I do take all patiently.
- Tha'll keep me at this noit' all day... Om always at this ' noit .
- It is the peculiar note of this ministry that it stands in the will of Christ, which the minister knows, to which he is consecrated, and which he illustrates in his own character.
- A cow is said to be in note when she is in milk.
- A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note .
- Be at her note', be near '''note''', come forward to her ' note , of a cow or sow, be near the time for calving or farrowing.
Derived terms
* notable * noteful * notelessEtymology 2
From (etyl) noten, notien, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Shetland)Verb
(not)- He would note it.
- He notes very little.
Derived terms
* benoteReferences
* * * note, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 2, Halliwell, 1860.Etymology 3
From (etyl) note, from (etyl) not, .Noun
- Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession.
- She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles, the note of life — a tough life and a vigorous.
- What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all!
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
- Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.
- The wakeful birdtunes her nocturnal note .
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
- small matterscontinually in use and in note
- Give orders to my servants that they take / No note at all of our being absent hence.
- The kingshall have note of this.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
{{der3, , , after-note , banknote/bank note , bass note , blue note , bread-and-butter note , briefing note , brown note , c note/c-note , collateral note , credit note , crib note , demand note , discount note , eighth note , Euro-note , flip-flop note , footnote , g note/g-note , grace note , half note , keep note , leading note , liner notes , mash note , medium-term note , mental note , mortgage note , municipal note , musical note , nickel note , notemaker , notemaking , note of hand , note pad/notepad , note paper , note payable , note to self , note value , note verbale , of note , one-note , passing note , pedal note , post-it note , promissory note , quarter note , secured note , senior note , shape note , shipping note , side note , sticky note , strike a note , structured note , suicide note , super-note , take note , thirty-second note , time note , treasury note , whole note , wood note/wood-note , zero-coupon note}}Verb
(not)Derived terms
* note downEtymology 4
Inflected and variant forms.Verb
(head)Etymology 5
From (etyl).Statistics
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* * English plurals ----step
English
Verb
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.