Notebook Meaning
/ˈnəʊtˌbʊk/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA book in which notes or memoranda are written.
nounA book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.
Sentence Examples
Let me put down your new phone number in my notebook.
I'll lend you my notebook.
The police officer wrote the details down in his notebook.
CEFR Practice Quiz
To remember the address, she jotted it down in her little ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She carries a small ____ everywhere so she can jot down her ideas for stories.
Word Origin & History
From note + book.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth."
— 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 125, column 1:
"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."
— 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69:
"We have found the use of Jupyter notebooks to be a convenient way of sharing work and code in a compact and reproducible manner. Jupyter notebooks are easy to update and adapt over time compared to a static CD-ROM."
— 2016, David Ming, David Glasser, Diane Hildebrandt, Attainable Region Theory, page 317:
"Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness."
— 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To remember the address, she jotted it down in her little ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She carries a small ____ everywhere so she can jot down her ideas for stories.