Meaning

3 senses

  1. To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored.

  2. To add notes to; to annotate

  3. To create notation (e.g. music or mathematics); to record/put down in the form of notation

    put into notation, as of music or choreography

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The teacher may also choose some melody free from accidentals and play it slowly while the student notates.

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  2. Quarter-tone intervals, which are used in Persian and Arabian music, are sometimes notated with slashed flats and sharps.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

First attested in 1871; back-formation from notation or from Latin notātus, perfect passiv

First attested in 1871; back-formation from notation or from Latin notātus, perfect passive participle of notō; either way, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, note + -ate.

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Forms

notates, notating, notated, notated
Base formnotate · to notate
3rd person singularnotates
Present participlenotating
Past simplenotated
Past participlenotated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynotate
he, she, itnotates

Past simpleLesson

all personsnotated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave notated
he, she, ithas notated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill notate

Word family

3 related words
Relatednotation
Derivednotatablenotator

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
notableC1notablynotarynotationnotchnoteA1
notate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto