notebook

CEFRA1

/ˈnəʊtˌbʊk/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A book of blank pages for writing notes.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

Examples

  • Let me put down your new phone number in my notebook.

  • The police officer wrote the details down in his notebook.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Ellipsis of notebook computer (“laptop computer”).

  2. A book in which notes or memoranda are written.

  3. A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.

More examples

In context

  • I'll lend you my notebook.

  • Near-synonyms: notepad, rough book, writing pad, logbook, journal

  • With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

To remember the address, she jotted it down in her little blank.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From note + book.