ADJ
- brief, little, quick, short
- Just a quick note to wish you luck
- handwritten
- covering, credit, delivery, love, promissory, ransom, sick, suicide, thank-you
VERB + NOTE
- scribble (sb), write (sb)
- send (sb)
- leave (sb)
- She left me a note to say my supper was in the fridge
ADJ
- brief
- copious, detailed
- scrappy
- lecture
- case, clinical, medical
VERB + NOTE
- jot down, keep, make, take
- She kept detailed notes of her travels
- go through, look through, read through, sift through
PREP
- ~ of
- I've made a note of the book's title
- ~ on
- The catalogue has full notes on each artist
PHRASES
- make a mental note (of sth/to do sth)
- She made a mental note to ring them in the morning
ADJ
- detailed
- explanatory
- introductory
- marginal
- biographical
- briefing, programme, usage
ADJ
- crumpled
- five-pound, ten-euro, etc.
QUANT
- bundle, roll, wad
- a thick wad of notes
ADJ
- high, top
- She's a bit wobbly on the top notes
- low
- right
- wrong
- musical
- dissonant
- chromatic, diatonic
VERB + NOTE
- play, sing
- hit, strike
- hold
ADJ
- brighter, cheerful, happier, lighter, optimistic, positive
- On a brighter note …
- discordant, jarring, sad, sour
- faint
- serious
- right
- His opening remarks struck the right note
- odd
- false
- cautionary, warning
- He sounded a cautionary note
- personal
VERB + NOTE
- hit, sound, strike
- inject, introduce
- His remarks injected a note of levity into the proceedings
- detect
- I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice
- end on
- The conference ended on an optimistic note
NOTE + VERB
- creep into/enter sb's voice
PREP
- ~ of
- A note of suspicion entered his voice
PHRASES
- a note in sb's voice
- There was a sad note in her voice
- on a brighter/ happier, etc. note
VERB + NOTE
- take
- He took careful note of the suspicious-looking man in the corner of the bar
PHRASES
- worthy of note
- The frescoes are worthy of note