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As nouns the difference between note and nope

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note

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) note, . Related to (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) * (l) (Shetland)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Use; employment.
  • * 1701 , Halliwell:
    • But thefte serveth of wykked note , Hyt hangeth hys mayster by the throte.
  • * 1912 , J. Jakobsen, Etymol. Ordbog Norrøne Sprog Shetland :
    • Der 'r nae not' in it; hit is nae ' not .
  • (uncountable) Utility; profit; advantage; foredeal; benefit; pains.
  • * 1838 , William Marriott, William Marriott (Ph. Dr.), A collection of English miracle-plays or mysteries'' (''The Deluge ):
    • And have thou that for thy note !
  • (countable) Affair, matter, concern.
  • * 1566 , John Martial, A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer
    • He sayeth: It is the peculiar note of Gods servates, not to bow their knee to Baal.
  • (countable) Business; undertaking; task, duty; purpose.
  • * 1811 , Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Darley, The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Volume 2 :
    • The chief note of a scholar, you say, is to govern his passions; wherefore I do take all patiently.
  • * 1897 , Halifax Courier:
    • Tha'll keep me at this noit' all day... Om always at this ' noit .
  • * 1911 , Homiletic review: Volume 62:
    • 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.
  • 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 :
    • A cow is said to be in note when she is in milk.
  • * 1922 , P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon p11 :
    • A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note .
  • * 1996 , C. I. Macafee Conc., Ulster Dict. at 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 * noteless

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) noten, notien, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) * (l) (Shetland)

    Verb

    (not)
  • 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 :
    • He would note it.
  • To use for food; eat.
  • * 1808 , Jameson:
    • He notes very little.
    Derived terms
    * benote

    References

    * * * note, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 2, Halliwell, 1860.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) note, from (etyl) not, .

    Noun

  • (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)
  • Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession.
  • #* (John Henry Newman) (1801-1890)
  • 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.
  • #* (w) (1851-1920)
  • What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all!
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 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.}}
  • # 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)
  • Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.
  • # 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)
  • The wakeful birdtunes her nocturnal note .
  • #*
    • , 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= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
    • , 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)
    • small matterscontinually in use and in note
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • Give orders to my servants that they take / No note at all of our being absent hence.
  • (label) Reputation; distinction.
  • (label) Notification; information; intelligence.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • The kingshall have note of this.
  • (label) Stigma; brand; reproach.
    • (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)
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
    * note down

    Etymology 4

    Inflected and variant forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl).

    Verb

    (not)
  • To butt; to push with the horns.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    nope

    English

    Etymology 1

    Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal) No.
  • * 1856 , Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution , p. 97,
    • "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope . The whistle ain't blowed yet."
  • * 1880 , R. Foli, Ill weeds , p. 319,
    • "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope ."
  • * 1890 , Werner's Readings and Recitations , E.S. Werner, p. 50
    • “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope . Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."
  • * c1930 , Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, The Detroit Educational Bulletin , Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, p. 13
    • 1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope "...
  • * 2006 , Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land , AuthorHouse, ISBN: 1420895184, p. 54,
    • Nope . Don't know as I do.
    Usage notes
    The above usage has, since the 1850s, been far more common than any others.
    Antonyms
    * yup * yep * yeah

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A negative reply, no.
    • I'll take that as a nope, then.
  • * 1981 , Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim'', read in ''Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror , Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN: 1582614288 (2001), p. 32
    • By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes " from Earnhardt.
  • * 2002 , Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication Across Disciplines , John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN: 1556197543, p. 19,
    • Now 'Yeah,' 'Yep' and' Nope 'are always given as examples of what we do with 'Yes' and 'No' in English and it has become (particularly for foreigners) a sort of linguistic myth.
  • * 2005 , Suzanne Eggins, Diana Slade, Analysing Casual Conversation , Equinox Publishing Ltd, ISBN: 1845530462, p. 97
    • While Yeah'' occurs very frequently in casual talk, ''No'' and its conversational derivatives of ''nope , naw, nup, etc. are relatively infrequent.

    See also

    * yep

    Etymology 2

    Probably mutated from ope (see 1823 quote) from alp;

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bullfinch
  • * 1613 , Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion'', read in ''The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,
    • To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope , the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.
  • * 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county , R. Hunter, p. 255
    • I may note that olp'', if pronounced ''ope'', as it sometimes is, may be the origin of ''nope'''''; ''an ope'', and ''a '''nope , differ as little as possible.
  • * 1836 , David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement , p. 380
    • In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope , or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder , a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.
  • * 1882 , Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning , G. Bell and Sons, p. 583,
    • Nope , an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "nope")

    Etymology 3

    Possibly influenced by nape and knap.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.
  • * 1823 , Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue , Francis Grose, p. xci
    • (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.
  • * 1829 , Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary , W. Pickering, p. 69,
    • I'll fetch thee a nope .

    Verb

  • (East Midlands and Northern England) (archaic) To hit someone on the head.
  • * 1851 , Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom , Phillips, Sampson, & Co., p. 183,
    • "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
  • * 1891 , T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings , A. D. Innes & co., p. 65
    • The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"

    Anagrams

    * open * peon * pone ----