Impress vs Note - What's the difference?
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To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 To make an impression, to be impressive.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, title=Moldova 0-5 England
, work=BBC Sport To produce a vivid impression of (something).
To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
* Shakespeare
To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
* I. Watts
To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
* Evelyn
The act of impressing.
An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
* Shakespeare
* 1908 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans , Norton 2005, p. 1330:
A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 187:
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
A heraldic device; an impresa.
* Milton
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
* Shakespeare
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:
In transitive terms the difference between impress and note
is that impress is to seize or confiscate (property) by force while note is 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.As a proper noun Note is
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Verb
(es)citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
citation, passage=Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.}}
- his heart, like an agate, with your print impressed
- Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them.
- the second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners
Synonyms
* make an impression on * cut a figure * (produce a vivid impression of) * imprint, print, stamp * : pressgang * : confiscate, impound, seize, sequesterNoun
(es)- This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.
- We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held
- Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible
- (South)
- (Cussans)
- To describe emblazoned shields, / Impresses quaint.
- Why such impress of shipwrights?
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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)