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As a noun note

is .

As a verb beat is

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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beat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) beten, from (etyl) ). Compare (etyl) batre, (etyl) battre.

Noun

(en noun)

A stroke; a blow.

* Dryden

He, with a careless beat , / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.

A pulsation or throb.

a beat''' of the heart; the '''beat of the pulse

A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.

A rhythm.

(music) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

to walk the beat

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

# In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

''a dead beat

The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

Derived terms

* afterbeat * backbeat, back beat * beat the meat * D-beat * deadbeat * downbeat * drumbeat * forebeat * heartbeat * inbeat * misbeat * offbeat * onbeat * outbeat * underbeat * upbeat * walk the beat

Verb

To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.

As soon as she heard that Wiktionary was shutting down, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.

* {{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012

, first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}

To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

* Bible, Judges xix. 22

The men of the city beat at the door.

* Dryden

Rolling tempests vainly beat below.

* Longfellow

They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.

* Bible, Jonath iv. 8

The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die.

* Francis Bacon

Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

* Byron

A thousand hearts beat happily.

To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.

Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.

No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.

I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.

(nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 81:

The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

(transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price

He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

(nonstandard)

* 1825? , "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters , page 231:

Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat : that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall

To indicate by beating or drumming.

to beat''' a retreat''; ''to '''beat to quarters

To tread, as a path.

* Blackmore

pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

* John Locke

Why should any one beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?

To be in agitation or doubt.

* Shakespeare

to still my beating mind

To make a sound when struck.

The drums beat .

(military) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.

Derived terms

* beat a retreat * beat down * beat off * beater * beat about the bush * beat senseless * beat somebody to the punch * beat some sense into * beat the clock * beat the pants off * beat to quarters * beat up * beat to a pulp * bebeat * forbeat * inbeat * misbeat * overbeat * tobeat * underbeat * wife-beater

Adjective

(en adjective)

(US slang) exhausted

After the long day, she was feeling completely beat .

dilapidated, beat up

Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.

(gay slang) fabulous

Her makeup was beat!

(slang) boring

(slang, of a person) ugly

Synonyms

* See also

Etymology 2

From (beatnik)

Noun

(en noun)

A beatnik.

Derived terms

* beat generation

References

* DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.

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