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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. [1913 Webster] 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. [1913 Webster] Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. [1913 Webster] 6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. [1913 Webster] {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Note \Note\, n. [AS. notu use, profit.] Need; needful business. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Note \Note\, n. [F. note, L. nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See {Know}.] 1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. [1913 Webster] Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster] What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! --Mrs. Humphry Ward. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] 3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. [1913 Webster] The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. --Felton. [1913 Webster] 4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. [1913 Webster] 5. pl. 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. [1913 Webster] 6. A short informal letter; a billet. [1913 Webster] 7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. [1913 Webster] 8. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. [1913 Webster] 9. A list of items or of charges; an account. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 10. (Mus.) (a) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: (b) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. (c) A key of the piano or organ. [1913 Webster] The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. --Milton. [1913 Webster] That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. --W. Pater. [1913 Webster] 11. Observation; notice; heed. [1913 Webster] Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 12. Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The king . . . shall have note of this. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 13. State of being under observation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 14. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note. [1913 Webster] There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] 15. Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] {Note of hand}, a promissory note. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Note \Note\ (n[=o]t), v. t. [AS. hn[imac]tan to strike against, imp. hn[=a]t.] To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Note \Note\ (n[=o]t). [AS. n[=a]t; ne not + w[=a]t wot. See {Not}, and {Wot}.] Know not; knows not. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Note \Note\, n. Nut. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Note \Note\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Noting}.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See {Note}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. --Pope. [1913 Webster] No more of that; I have noted it well. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. --Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address, 1863). [PJC] 2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. [1913 Webster] Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. --Maccaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] They were both noted of incontinency. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To denote; to designate. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 5. To annotate. [R.] --W. H. Dixon. [1913 Webster] 6. To set down in musical characters. [1913 Webster] {To note a bill} or {To note a draft}, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Raise \Raise\ (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raised} (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Raising}.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[imac]sa to rise. See {Rise}, and cf. {Rear} to raise.] [1913 Webster] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: [1913 Webster] (a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. [1913 Webster] This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] (b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. [1913 Webster] (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: [1913 Webster] (a) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. [1913 Webster] They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. [1913 Webster] (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. [1913 Webster] He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [1913 Webster] Aeneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. [1913 Webster] Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. [1913 Webster] 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. [1913 Webster] I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxix. 3. [1913 Webster] (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. "To raise up a rent." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." --Johnson's Dict. [1913 Webster] Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise is also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. [1913 Webster] I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding. [1913 Webster] (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. [1913 Webster] I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18. [1913 Webster] God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1. [1913 Webster] (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. [1913 Webster] Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. [1913 Webster] 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. [1913 Webster] Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets. [1913 Webster] 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it. --Burrill. [1913 Webster] {To raise a blockade} (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. {To raise a check}, {note}, {bill of exchange}, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. {To raise a siege}, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. {To raise steam}, to produce steam of a required pressure. {To raise the wind}, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.] {To raise Cain}, or {To raise the devil}, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: note n 1: a brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment" 2: a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" [syn: {note}, {short letter}, {line}, {billet}] 3: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: {note}, {musical note}, {tone}] 4: a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice" 5: a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm" 6: a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: {bill}, {note}, {government note}, {bank bill}, {banker's bill}, {bank note}, {banknote}, {Federal Reserve note}, {greenback}] 7: a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" [syn: {note}, {annotation}, {notation}] 8: high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence" [syn: {eminence}, {distinction}, {preeminence}, {note}] 9: a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time; "I had to co-sign his note at the bank" [syn: {note}, {promissory note}, {note of hand}] v 1: make mention of; "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing" [syn: {note}, {observe}, {mention}, {remark}] 2: notice or perceive; "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words" [syn: {notice}, {mark}, {note}] [ant: {ignore}] 3: observe with care or pay close attention to; "Take note of this chemical reaction" [syn: {note}, {take note}, {observe}] 4: make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning" [syn: {note}, {take down}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: note /nɔt/ account; bill; calculation From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Note /noːtə/ memorandum; note