different between note vs catch

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??t/
• (General American) enPR: n?t, IPA^(key): /no?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

From Middle English note, from Old English not, n?t (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).

Noun

note (countable and uncountable, plural notes)

1. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
   1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
      • 1841, John Henry Newman, “A Letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford, on Occasion of No. 90, in the Series Called The Tracts for the Times”, Oxford: John Henry Parker, page 39:

        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?; she has ancient descent, unbroken continuance, agreement in doctrine with the ancient Church.
   2. 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.
   3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
2. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
   1. A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

   2. A short informal letter; a billet.
   3. (academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
   4. A diplomatic missive or written communication.
   5. (finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment

      a promissory note

      a note of hand

      a negotiable note

   6. (obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.
   7. A piece of paper money; a banknote.

   8. (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
3. (music, heading) A sound.
   1. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
   2. A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
   3. (by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
   4. (by extension) A call or song of a bird.
4. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
5. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.

6. A critical comment.

7. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
8. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.

Synonyms

• (mark of disgrace): blemish, blot, brand, reproach, stain, stigma, taint
• (observation, notice, heed): attention, mark; see also Thesaurus:attention

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle noting, simple past and past participle noted)

1. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.

2. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

3. (transitive) To denote; to designate.

4. (transitive) To annotate.
5. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
6. (transitive, law) 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.
   • 2020 October 28, Kimberly Budd for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, case SJC-12769:

     By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.

Derived terms

• note down

Translations

See also

• notable
• noteless
• benote

Etymology 2

From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-Germanic *nut? (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English n?otan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.

Alternative forms

• noit, noyt (Northern England)
• not (Shetland)

Noun

note (usually uncountable, plural notes)

1. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
   • 1897 May 27, Halifax Courier, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, volume IV, London: Henry Frowde, page 302:

     Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit.

   • 1962, Arthur C. Cawley, Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays^[2], page 125:

     Thou canst do thy note; that have I espied.

2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
   • 1843, The Farmer's Magazine, page 384:

     The supply of horned cattle at this fair was great, but the business done was confined to fleshy barreners of feeding qualities and superior new-calved heifers, and those at early note, with appearance of being useful; [...]

   • 1875, Belfast Paper:

     For sale, a Kerry cow, five years old, at her note in May.

   • 1922, P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon page 11:

     A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note.

Derived terms

• notable
• noteful

Further reading

• note in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• note in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• note, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 2, Halliwell, 1860.

Anagrams

• ETNO, Eton, Teno, Tone, ento-, teno-, tone

Afrikaans

Noun

note

1. plural of noot

Danish

Etymology 1

From English note, from Italian nota, from Latin nota.

Noun

note c (singular definite noten, plural indefinite noter)

1. note

   Synonyms: notat, notits

Inflection

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

note

1. (mechanics) To supply a board to a groove.

Conjugation

Template:da-conj-base

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

note f (plural notes)

1. note (written or spoken)
2. mark (UK), grade (US)
3. bill (UK, US), check (US)
4. (music) note
5. touch, hint, note

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Turkish: not

Verb

note

1. inflection of noter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “note” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Verb

note

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of notar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.te/

Adjective

note

1. feminine plural of noto

Noun

note f

1. plural of nota

Anagrams

• onte

Latin

Participle

n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of n?tus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *nutu, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts.

Noun

n?te f

1. nut (fruit)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: noot
• Limburgish: noeat (with unexpected oea)

Further reading

• “note (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “note (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

note

1. note

Etymology 2

Adverb

note

1. Alternative form of not

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

note f (plural notes)

1. (Jersey) tune

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin nota

Noun

note m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural noter, definite plural notene)

1. (music) a note
2. a note in a book or text
3. a note (communication between governments)
4. a banknote

Derived terms

• fotnote

References

• “note” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin nota

Noun

note m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural notar, definite plural notane)

1. (music) a note
2. a note in a book or text
3. a note (communication between governments)
4. a banknote

Derived terms

• fotnote

Etymology 2

Verb

note

1. past participle of nyta

References

• “note” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?nowt??/, /?n?t??/

Noun

note m (plural notes)

1. (computing) Clipping of notebook (“notebook computer”).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?n?.t??i/

Verb

note

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of notar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of notar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of notar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of notar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?note]

Noun

note f pl

1. plural of not?

Scots

Alternative forms

• not, noit, noyt

Etymology 1

From Middle English not, note, noote, from Old English notu (“use; utility; benefit”), from Proto-Germanic *nut? (“use; enjoyment”). More at note.

Noun

note (uncountable)

1. use; benefit
2. necessity; occasion
3. business; employment
4. task; duty
5. purpose; function; office

Etymology 2

From Middle English noten, notien, from Old English notian (“to make use of; employ; enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *nut?n? (“to make use of; enjoy”).

Verb

note (third-person singular present notes, present participle notin, past nott, past participle nott or notten)

1. To use; employ; make use of
2. To need

Spanish

Verb

note

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of notar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of notar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of notar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of notar.

Venetian

Alternative forms

• not

Etymology

From Latin noctem, accusative of nox (compare Italian notte), from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts.

Noun

note f (plural noti)

1. night

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English noot, contraction of ne +? woot.

Verb

note

1. I do not know.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, from Late Latin capti?re, present active infinitive of capti?, from Latin capt?, frequentative of capi?. Akin to Modern French chasser (from Old French chacier) and Spanish cazar, and thus a doublet of chase. Displaced Middle English fangen ("to catch"; > Modern English fang (verb)), from Old English f?n (“to seize, take”); Middle English lacchen ("to catch"; > Modern English latch), from Old English læ??an.

The verb became irregular, possibly under the influence of the semantically similar latch (from Old English læ??an) whose past tense was lahte, lauhte, laught (Old English læhte) until becoming regularised in Modern English.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?ch, IPA^(key): /kæt??/
• (US) enPR: k?ch, k?ch, IPA^(key): /kæt??/, /k?t??/
  • Noah Webster's American Dictionary (1828) regards /k?t?/ as the "popular or common pronunciation." It is labeled "not infreq[uent]" in Kenyon & Knott (1949).
• Rhymes: -æt?, -?t?

Noun

catch (countable and uncountable, plural catches)

1. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

   The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.

2. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.

   The player made an impressive catch.

   Nice catch!

3. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

   Good catch. I never would have remembered that.

4. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.

   The kids love to play catch.

5. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.

   The fishermen took pictures of their catch.

   The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.

6. (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.

   Did you see his latest catch?

   He's a good catch.

7. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.

   She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.

8. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.

   There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.

9. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.

   It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?

   Be careful, that's a catch question.

10. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.

    I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.

11. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
12. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
    • The common and the canon law […] lie at catch, and wait advantages one against another.

13. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
14. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
    • 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, page 158:

      Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.

15. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2

      Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?
16. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
18. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
19. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
20. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
21. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
22. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
    • , Introduction

      the way it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals of interruption

23. A slight remembrance; a trace.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

      We retain a catch of those pretty stories.

Synonyms

• (act of capturing): seizure, capture, collar, snatch
• (the act of catching a ball): grasp, snatch
• (act of noticing): observation
• (a find): prize, find; conquest, beau
• (quantity captured): haul, take
• (stopping mechanism): stop, chock; clasp, hasp, latch
• (hidden difficulty): snag, problem; trick, gimmick, hitch
• (fragment of music): snatch, fragment; snippet, bit
• (refrain): chorus, refrain, burden

Derived terms

See combined section below.

Translations

Verb

catch (third-person singular simple present catches, present participle catching, simple past and past participle caught)

1. (heading) To capture, overtake.
   1. (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13^thc.]

   2. (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive. [from 14^thc.]
      • 1611, Authorized King James Version, Mark 12:13:

        And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

   3. (transitive, figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
      • 1933, Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers, p.108:

        The public […] said that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.

      • 2006, Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer, Medea, p.23:

        As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens. […] from the moment she caught her man, this influential, unconventional woman became a lightning rod […].

   4. (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc. [from 16^thc.]
   5. (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for. [from 17^thc.]
      • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

        Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Did anyone catch the Charlie Rose the evening before last. Did you catch it? No, nothing?

   6. (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something). [from 17^thc.]

   8. (transitive) To travel by means of. [from 19^thc.]
      • 1987, A.J. Quinnell, In the Name of the Father, p.111:

        After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.

   9. (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.) [from 19^thc.]
      • 2002, Orpha Caton, Shadow on the Creek, pp.102-103:

        Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.

2. (heading) To seize hold of.
   1. (transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of. [from 13^thc.]
   2. (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep. [from 14^thc.]

   3. (transitive) To grip or entangle. [from 17^thc.]

   4. (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
   5. (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.

   6. (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.

   7. (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at). [from 17^thc.]

   8. (transitive) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to. [from 18^thc.]

   9. (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke. [from 19^thc.]
      • 1906, Arthur W. Stevens, Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep, p.63:

        Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.

   10. (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots. [from 19^thc.]

   11. (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
       • 2001, John Lull, Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue, p.203:

         If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.

   12. (transitive, computing) To handle an exception. [from 20^thc.]

3. (heading) To intercept.
   1. (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). [from 16^thc.]

   2. (transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs. [from 16^thc.]
      • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 18:

        she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, […].

   3. (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce. [from 18^thc.]

   4. (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher. [from 19^thc.]

4. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
   1. (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.). [from 13^thc.]

   2. (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure. [from 13^thc.]

   3. (transitive) To be infected by (an illness). [from 16^thc.]

   4. (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.

      • Does the sedition catch from man to man?

      • 1817, Mary Martha Sherwood, Stories Explanatory of the Church Catechism

        He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching."

   5. (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.). [from 18^thc.]
      • 2003, Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes, p.63:

        the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.

   6. (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection. [from 16^thc.]

   7. (transitive) To be hit by something.

   8. (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
   9. (intransitive) To get pregnant.

5. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
   1. (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16^thc.]

      • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   2. (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment). [from 20^thc.]

   3. (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully. [from 17^thc.]

6. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
   1. (transitive) To charm or entrance. [from 14^thc.]
      • 2004, Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow, p.40

        No, a far more natural beauty caught him.

   2. (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense). [from 17^thc.]

7. (heading) To obtain or experience

Conjugation

Usage notes

• The older past and passive participle catched is now nonstandard.

Synonyms

• (seize in motion): fang, snatch, grab
• (capture prey): capture, take; snare, hook
• (be hit): take, get

Antonyms

• drop, release

Translations

Derived terms

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English catch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat?/

Noun

catch m (uncountable)

1. wrestling; professional wrestling

Derived terms

• catcheur

Further reading

• “catch” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).