noting

Pluralnotings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of note.

   Noting the discrepancy, the auditor flagged the account for review.

   The journalist spent the meeting noting every comment from the panel.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every use of the verb, from the everyday to the specialized. Most often it means observing something or writing it down, and it takes a direct object: noting the discrepancy, noting every comment. Commercial paper keeps a narrower use, in which a notary is noting a bill by recording its refusal of acceptance on the back. As a gerund it sits close to the noun for a written remark, which forms the plural notings.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A written remark or comment recorded as a note.

   The clerk's noting in the ledger accounted for the missing payment.

   The manuscript carried careful noting throughout its early chapters.

   Similarannotation, entry, notation

   Note

   More a clerk's word than a writer's: notings are remarks entered on a record, and they tend to pile up. C. W. Kerry's Share register practice (1960) warns that in large companies notings are numerous and slow to extract. Edgar Wallace's The Twister (1928) pairs a man's notings with his calculations. It works as a count noun (a noting, several notings) and as a mass noun for annotation in general.

3. 3
   pronounpronunciation spelling

   Pronunciation spelling of nothing.

   Ain't noting wrong with taking it slow.

   She did noting all day but sit on the porch.

   Note

   A spelling that writes the th of nothing as a plain t, the same shift that turns the into de in the line "a kick is noting, a blow is noting, de soul is de abode of glory." It belongs in written dialogue, where it suggests a speaker's accent. On the page it looks exactly like the participle of note, so only context tells a reader which word is meant.

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