Note vs Fill - What's the difference?
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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:
(label) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
* (Tobias Smollett), translator, (Don Quixote) , part 2, book 5, chapter 4:
* (Charles Dickens), , chapter 38:
(label) To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
* , chapter=3
, title= * 1950 , , The Bachelors of Broken Hill , chapter 11:
* 2005 , (Wendy Coakley-Thompson), , 2006 edition, ISBN 0758207484, page 10 [http://google.com/books?id=D8d9M2Lhe3IC&pg=PA10&dq=fill]:
* 2006 , (Gilbert Morris), Sante Fe Woman , , page 95 [http://google.com/books?id=LepY_wtPjvIC&pg=PA95&dq=%22filled+his+plate%22]:
To enter (something), making it full.
* 1910 May 13, John C. Sherwin, opinion, Delashmutt et al. ''v.'' et al.'', reprinted in volume 126, ''(North Western Reporter) , page 359, at 360:
* 2004 , Peter Westen, The Logic of Consent , , ISBN 0754624072, page 322 [http://google.com/books?id=17bAKRvHBkcC&pg=PA322&dq=%22as+the+crowd+filled%22]:
(label) To become full.
(label) To become pervaded with something.
(label) To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).
(label) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
* 1866 , , The Negro , pages 18–19 [http://google.com/books?id=E0N-AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=filled]:
* 1891 January 23, Allen Morse, opinion, Lawrence ''v.'' Hanley'', reprinted in volume 47, ''Northwestern Reporter , page 753, at 755:
(label) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
* "Intimate Diagnosis of Diseased Teeth", in Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science and Literature , volume 13, number 11, November 1891, page 657 [http://google.com/books?id=eS21AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA657&dq=%22filled+the+molar%22]:
(label) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
* Bible, Matthew xv. 33
* Francis Bacon
To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
(label) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
An amount that fills a container.
The filling of a container or area.
Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
(label) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
* 2008 , Martha E. Green, Pioneers in Pith Helmets
As a noun note
is .As a proper noun fill is
.note
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)
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)Derived terms
* note downEtymology 4
Inflected and variant forms.Verb
(head)Etymology 5
From (etyl).Statistics
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* * English plurals ----fill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on, unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.
- She forgave him the pain as he filled' the cavity in her back molar. Three weeks later, she let him ' fill a more intimate cavity.
- Grat Herendeen was the first man, a huge man with his bull whip coiled and over his shoulder seeming almost a part of him. He grinned at her as she filled his plate with the eggs and motioned toward the bacon. "Help yourself, Grat."
- In the evening of the 14th of July, there was a rainfall of 3 or 3½ inches in that locality. The water filled the ditch so full that it overflowed the levees on both sides in many places.
- As the crowd filled the aisles, S repeated loudly what he had announced upon entering the stadium: 'I don't want anyone to touch me, and I will call the police if anyone does.'
- It is impossible to resist the conclusion, which experience and history tend to prove, that, the continuous movement of such a vast body of mankind has been influenced by natural laws, that, the negro has filled the position for which he is fitted by nature, and, that, his services were brought into use when the emergency arose necessitating his employment.
- The board of supervisors called a specal(SIC) election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term.
- Be that as it may, had the disturbance continued after our having filled the molar, and presuming that nothing had been done to the bicuspid, we might have been still as far as ever from knowing where the trouble lay.
- Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
- Things that are sweet and fat are more filling .
Synonyms
* pervadeAntonyms
* (add contents to a container or cavity) empty * (to become full) emptyDerived terms
{{der3, backfill , filler , fill in , filling , filling station , fill in the blank , fill one's face , fill one's hand , fill out , fill someone's shoes , fill the bill , fill up , refill}}Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill .
- ''The mixer returned to the plant for another fill .
- That machine can do 20 fills a minute.
- This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills .
- The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
Derived terms
{{der3, , fill soil , , flood fill , landfill , , seed fill}}Etymology 3
See (m).Noun
(en noun)- (Mortimer)
- It was a challenge to learn to harness him, guide him slowly back between the fills of the carriage, then to fasten the right buckles and snaps, making the harness and buggy all ready for travel to church or to town.