notes

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of note.

   The student's notes filled three pages by the end of the lecture.

   Detectives compared their notes after interviewing the last witness.

   Note

   One spelling, two jobs. As a noun it is the plural of every kind of note: marginal comments, memoranda, short informal letters, distinctive marks. The same letters also serve as the present-tense verb, and the word just before usually tells them apart. A determiner (the notes, her notes) signals the noun. A singular subject (the report notes) signals the verb.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of note.

   The report notes several errors in the original data set.

   Our guide notes that the trail becomes steep near the summit.

   Note

   A present-tense reporting verb whose -s ending marks a singular subject: he, she, it, the report, our guide. Every sense of the verb is transitive, so something always follows. It may be a direct object (notes several errors) or a that-clause (notes that the trail becomes steep). With a plural subject the bare form returns: the reports note.

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