Commit and Note

commit

(v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v.t.) To confound.
(v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
(v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

verb

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- synonyms: invest, put, place
Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

note

noun

A brief written record.
- usage: "he made a note of the appointment"
A short personal letter.
- usage: "drop me a line when you get there"
- synonyms: short letter, line, billet
A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound.
- usage: "the singer held the note too long"
- synonyms: musical note, tone
A tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling.
- usage: "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"
A characteristic emotional quality.
- usage: "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm"
A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank. )
- usage: "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
- synonyms: bill, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback
A comment or instruction (usually added. )
- usage: "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
- synonyms: annotation, notation
High status importance owing to marked superiority.
- usage: "a scholar of great eminence"
- synonyms: eminence, distinction, preeminence
A promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time.
- usage: "I had to co-sign his note at the bank"
- synonyms: promissory note, note of hand

verb

Make mention of.
- usage: "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing"
- synonyms: observe, mention, remark
Notice or perceive.
- usage: "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words"
- synonyms: notice, mark
Observe with care or pay close attention to.
- usage: "Take note of this chemical reaction"
- synonyms: take note, observe
Make a written note of.
- usage: "she noted everything the teacher said that morning"
- synonyms: take down

(n.) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
Know not; knows not.
(n.) A diplomatic missive or written communication.
(n.) A short informal letter; a billet.
(n.) Stigma; brand; reproach.
(n.) To annotate.
(n.) Need; needful business.
(n.) State of being under observation.
(n.) A key of the piano or organ.
(n.) Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
(n.) A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
(n.) Notification; information; intelligence.
(n.) Observation; notice; heed.
(n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:.
(n.) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
(n.) Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
(n.) A list of items or of charges; an account.
(v.t.) To butt; to push with the horns.
(n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory or illustrative observation.
(n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
(n.) To set down in musical characters.
(n.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.
(n.) Nut.
(n.) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
(n.) To denote; to designate.
(n.) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
(n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:.
(n.) Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
(n.) Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.
(n.) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
(n.) Nut.
(v.t.) To butt; to push with the horns.
(n.) Observation; notice; heed.
(n.) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
(n.) A diplomatic missive or written communication.
(n.) A key of the piano or organ.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.
(n.) A list of items or of charges; an account.
Know not; knows not.
(n.) A short informal letter; a billet.
(n.) Need; needful business.
(n.) A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
(n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory or illustrative observation.
(n.) State of being under observation.
(n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
(n.) To denote; to designate.
(n.) Notification; information; intelligence.
(n.) To set down in musical characters.
(n.) Stigma; brand; reproach.
(n.) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
(n.) To annotate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Note is a general term for any kind of paper or document signed by a borrower which is an acknowledgement of the debt, and is, by inference, a promise to pay. When the note is secured by a mortgage, it is called a mortgage note and the mortgagee is named as the payee.

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