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notetake

verb

Etymology

Back-formation from notetaker or notetaking. Equivalent to note + take.

  1. derived from *teh₂g-✻ — “to touch, take”
  2. inherited from *tēkaną✻ — “to touch”
  3. derived from taka — “to touch, take”
  4. inherited from tacan — “to grasp, touch”
  5. inherited from taken — “to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”
  6. compounded as notetake — “note + take”

Definitions

  1. To take notes.

    • I've always wondered why my teachers told me things, or had me notetake, when the information was right in front of me, clear and concise.
    • Whether general or specific, subtopics become the outline of the entire research project, the "dry bones" that are "fleshed out" with knowing what to read and notetake and what information to skip.
    • I can notetake just fine, I don't need (what one person on a gaming site Q&A I occasionally read calls) "dummy text".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for notetake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA