different between note vs grade

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

Borrowed from French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, a step in a ladder or stair, a station, position, degree”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rad?-, *g?red?- (“to walk, go”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????? (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian grìdiju (“to go, wander”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?d/
• Homophones: grayed, greyed
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

grade (plural grades)

1. A rating.

   This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.

2. (chiefly Canada, US) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

   Synonym: mark

3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.

   • There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff!
     
     Make sure that you get food grade diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth.

4. (linguistics) degree (Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.)
5. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

6. (Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.

7. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).

8. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
9. The level of the ground.

10. (mathematics) A gradian.
11. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
12. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
13. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
14. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.

Synonyms

• (taxon that is not a clade): paraphyletic group

Related terms

• e-grade
• gradient
• o-grade
• zero-grade

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (gur?do)

Translations

Verb

grade (third-person singular simple present grades, present participle grading, simple past and past participle graded)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
2. (chiefly Canada, US) To assign a score to overall academic performance.
3. To organize in grades.

4. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
5. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
6. (research) To apply labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).

7. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 34:

     And there were circles even beyond these – […] humanity grading and drifting beyond the educated vision, until no earthly invitation can embrace it.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Adger, Degar, EDGAR, Edgar, Gerda, garde, radge, raged

Afrikaans

Noun

grade

1. plural of graad

Esperanto

Etymology

grado +? -e

Adverb

grade

1. gradually

Synonyms

• malabrupte

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gradus. Compare degré.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ad/
• Rhymes: -ad
• Homophone: grades

Noun

grade m (plural grades)

1. rank
2. (geometry) gradian

Synonyms

• degré
• rang

Derived terms

• en prendre pour son grade
• monter en grade

Related terms

• gradation
• grader

Descendants

• ? English: grade
• ? Romanian: grad

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese grade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cratis, cratem (“wickerwork”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???aðe?/

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

1. (archaic) cage
2. grate (metal grille)
3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
   • 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 74:

     Iten, preçaron duas grades e hun chedeiro e dous temoos de cerna, a parte dos menores em quorenta :XL -? maravedis

     Item, they appraised two harrows, a cart's bed and two shafts of heartwood, the part corresponding to the kids, 40 coins

4. any similarly formed frame or structure
5. common starfish (Asterias rubens)

   Synonyms: estrela do mar, rapacricas

6. Ursa Major

   Synonyms: Carro, Osa Maior

Derived terms

• gradar

References

• “grade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “grade” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “grade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “grade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “grade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese grade, from Latin cratis, cratem, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *krtis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???a.ð?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???a.d?i/
• Hyphenation: gra?de

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

1. grate (metal grille)
2. a light fence
3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
4. grid

Verb

grade

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rade]

Noun

grade n

1. indefinite plural of grad

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

grade (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vocative singular of grad

Spanish

Verb

grade

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