Note vs Watch - 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:
A portable or wearable timepiece.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
* Milton
* Addison
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
A person or group of people who guard.
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 65
The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch'', ''port watch .
(nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
* 2004 , Charles P. Nemeth, Criminal law
(label) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
* , chapter=10
, title= (label) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
(label) To mind, attend, or guard.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”}}
(label) To be wary or cautious of.
(label) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
(label) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
(label) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
(label) To act as a lookout.
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
To be awake.
* 1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
As nouns the difference between note and watch
is that note is while watch is a portable or wearable timepiece.As a verb watch is
(label) to look at, see, or view for a period of time.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
(wikipedia watch)Etymology 1
As a noun, from (etyl) wacche, from (etyl) . See below for verb form.Noun
(es)- More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets.
- shepherds keeping watch by night
- All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
- The second watch of the night began at midnight.
- I did stand my watch upon the hill.
- Might we but hear / Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock / Count the night watches to his feathery dames.
- The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
- Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch ; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
- He upbraids Iago, that he made him / Brave me upon the watch .
- A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story.
Derived terms
* hurricane watch * on one's watch * on the watch * pocket watch * stand watch * stopwatch * tornado watch * wristwatchEtymology 2
As a verb, from (etyl) wacchen, from (etyl) .Verb
(es)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
- So on the morne Sir Trystram, Sir Gareth and Sir Dynadan arose early and went unto Sir Palomydes chambir, and there they founde hym faste aslepe, for he had all nyght wacched [...].