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As nouns the difference between note and get

is that note is while get is offspring or get can be (british|regional) a git or get can be (judaism) a jewish writ of divorce.

As a verb get is

(label) to obtain; to acquire.

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)

    Statistics

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    get

    English

    (wikipedia get)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) geten, from (etyl) 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.

    Verb

  • (label) To obtain; to acquire.
  • (label) To receive.
  • * , chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
  • To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .
  • (label) To become.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
  • * , chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
  • (label) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • *
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
  • (label) To fetch, bring, take.
  • * Bible, (w) xxxi. 13
  • Get thee out from this land.
  • * (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
  • Heto the strong town of Mega.
  • (label) To cause to do.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Get him to say his prayers.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • to get rid of fools and scoundrels
  • (label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • to get a mile
  • (label) To cause to come or go or move.
  • (label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • * (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1
  • Get thee behind me.
  • (label) To begin (doing something).
  • (label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • (label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
  • To be subjected to.
  • * '>citation
  • Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl
  • (label) To be.
  • *
  • (label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • To catch out, trick successfully.
  • To perplex, stump.
  • (label) To find as an answer.
  • To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • (label) To hear completely; catch.
  • (label) To .
  • To beget (of a father).
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
  • * 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:
  • Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
  • (label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .
  • * (1625-1686)
  • it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
  • Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • *2007 , Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian :
  • Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
    Usage notes
    In dialects featuring the past participle gotten, the form "gotten" is not used universally as the past participle. Rather, inchoative and concessive uses (with meanings such as "obtain" or "become", or "am permitted to") use "gotten" as their past participle, whereas stative uses (with meanings like "have") use "got" as their past participle http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html] and [http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm, thus enabling users of "gotten"-enabled dialects to make distinctions such as "I've gotten (received) my marks" vs. "I've got (possess) my marks"; a subtle distinction, to be sure, but a useful one. The first example probably means that the person has received them, and has them somewhere, whereas the second probably means that they have them in their hand right now.
    Synonyms
    * (obtain) acquire, come by, have * (receive) receive, be given * (fetch) bring, fetch, retrieve * (become) become * (cause to become) cause to be, cause to become, make * (cause to do) make * (arrive) arrive at, reach * come, go, travel * : go, move * (begin) begin, commence, start * : catch, take * : answer * be able to * dig, follow, make sense of, understand * : be * : catch, come down with * con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick * confuse, perplex, stump * (find as an answer) obtain * : catch, nab, nobble * (physically assault) assault, beat, beat up * catch, hear * (getter) getter
    Antonyms
    * (obtain) lose
    Derived terms
    * beget * forget * from the get-go * get about * get a charge out of * get across * get across to * get action * get after * get ahead of oneself * get a look in * get along * get along with * get around * get around to * get at * get away * get away from * get away with * get back * get back to * get behind * get better * get beyond * get by * get carried away * get done * get down * get going * get in * get in with * get into * get into trouble * get it * get it across one's head * get it into one's head * get it on * get it over with * get knotted * get lost * get moving * get off * get off easy * get off lightly * get off with * get on * get one over on * get one's end away * get one's rocks off * get on in years * get on to * get on with * get out * get out of * get over * get-rich-quick * get round * get round to * get some air * get someone's goat * get stuffed * get the goods on * get there * get the time to * get through * get through to * get to * get to be * get together * get under * get up * get up in * get up to * get well soon * get with the program, get with the programme * go-getter * go-getting * got * have got

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Offspring.
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 755:
  • ‘You were a high lord's get . Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
  • Lineage.
  • (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • Something gained.
  • * 2008 , Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion (page 73)
  • I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.

    Etymology 2

    Variant of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, regional) A git .
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
  • Statistics

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