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note-take

note-take is the alternative form of notetake.

Meaning of notetake

Verb

notetake (third-person singular simple present notetakes, present participle notetaking, simple past notetook, past participle notetaken)

  1. (intransitive) To take notes.
    • I've always wondered why my teachers told me things, or had me notetake, when the information was right in front of me, clear and concise.1999 December 28, P. Tierney, “Students of toay”, in k12.chat.teacher (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022

Forms of note-take

third-person singular presentnote-takes
present participlenote-taking
pastnote-took
past participlenote-taken

Origin of note-take

Back-formation from note-taker or note-taking.

Questions about note-take

What is note-take the alternative form of?
Note-take is the alternative form of notetake.

Words near note-take in the dictionary

  1. note-bash
  2. note-bashed
  3. note-bashes
  4. note-bashing
  5. note-perfect
  6. note-take
  7. note-taken
  8. note-takes
  9. note-taking
  10. note-took
  11. notea

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: note-take (page history and authors); notetake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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