Notebook

Definition: Notebook

Notebook

Noun

1. A book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda.

2. A small compact portable computer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "notebook" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Notebook

Record

Notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book; portfolio; pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings.

Crosswords: Notebook

Get out your notebook. There's more (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

You hear me flippin thru my pages out my favorite notebook (Awnaw; performing artist: Nappy Roots)

Notebook (1963)

Canadian Notebook (1953)

Wayne Freedman's Notebook (1998)

Notebook from China (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Carolyne Roehm's Fall Notebook (reference)

• Merriam-Webster's Notebook Atlas (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Websters Medium Term Notebook (reference)

• Quarterly Connection - Blood Bank - Notebook (reference)

• Broad River Notebook (reference)

• Chicago Symphonia Orchestra Notebook (reference)

• Parish Practice Notebook (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Notebook on Cities and Clothes (reference)

• A Notebook on Clothes and Cities (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Richard Nanes: Sonnets and Sketches from a Composer's Notebook (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Startech Card Bus IEEE-1394 Firewire Notebook Card (reference)

• IBM Thinkpad 600E Notebook (366-MHz Pentium II, 128 MB RAM, 10 GB hard drive) (reference)

• Toshiba Portege 4000 Notebook (750-MHz Pentium III, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive) (reference)

• Sony VAIO PCG-FXA63 Notebook (1.4 GHz Athlon XP 1600+, 256 MB SDRAM, 20 GB hard drive (reference)

• Sony VAIO GRV550 Notebook (2.4 GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Caption: Edison in the Chemistry Lab Writing in His Notebook about Rubber Experiments; West Orange, NJ; December 1928; {14.720/35} (jpg).

Caption: Notebook Page Experiment No. 1, Drawing of a Light Bulb with a Horseshoe Filament, Double Page Spread; February 13, 1880; {15.001/125} (jpg).

Caption: Strips of Motion Picture Film in Batchelor Notebook, EDIS-1337. Full Shot; Unknown Date; {23.435/37} (jpg).

Pencil sketch of the ship, from the inside cover of a notebook kept by her Commanding Officer, James I. Waddell. Credit: NAVY.

The flea got out his notebook. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The Professor looked annoyed, and shut up his notebook again

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

IBM and Toshiba are the major suppliers of HDDs for notebook computers to Korea. (references)

Portables are generally full-capacity computers in a small package, including notebook PCs and laptops. (references)

Notebook, sub-notebook, and desktop PCs represent best sales prospects for foreign exports to the Japanese market. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

In mobile and notebook systems, PCMCIA cards have become the standard. (references)

Poland

Polish manufacturers of school supplies dominated the paper notebook segment of the market. (references)

Australia

The five major vendors are Compaq (16 percent of total local desktop, notebook and server markets), IBM (11 percent), HP (10.6 percent), Dell and Toshiba. (references)

Human Rights

Namibia

SFF members reportedly grabbed a notebook and tore up the written notes of a reporter at the scene, briefly confiscated his camera, and arrested him; he was released the same day. (references)

Travel

China

Notebook computers, cameras, portable printers, VCRs can be brought into China as personal belongings. (references)

Australia

Before you arrive in Australia, you are advised to check if your communications equipment (for example, mobile phone, fax machine, wireless microphone, notebook computer) is safe to operate in Australia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "notebook": labtech Notebook ♦ looseleaf notebook ♦ notebook computer ♦ notebook entry ♦ shorthand notebook. Additional references.

Beginning with "notebook": notebook-sized, notebook-type.

Ending with "notebook": diary-notebook, sub-notebook.

Albanian

fletore (copybook). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كراس (quire), ‏مفكرة (aide-memoire, calendar, organizer, pocket book), ‏مذكرة (aide-memoire, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, motion, note, pocket book, reminder, warrant), ‏دفتر (copybook, record, roster, stack, tablet). (various references)

Asturian

llibreta. (various references)

Bemba

icitab. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тефтерче (pocket book), тетрадка, бележник (agenda, aide-memoire, book, pad, pocket book, remembrancer, scratch pad, scribbling pad, writing pad). (various references)

Cebuano

kwaderno. (various references)

Chinese 

筆記本 , 簿子 (book), 笔记本, 本子 (book, edition). (various references)

Cornish

lyver notyansow. (various references)

Czech

notes, zápisník (block, diary, pocket book, pocketbook), sešit (book, copybook, exercise book, installment, instalment, Jotter), diář (diary). (various references)

Danish

notesbog. (various references)

Dutch

schrift (exercise-book, folder, script, writing), katern (exercise-book, folder), aflevering (delivery, episode, exercise-book, folder). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

quillcana p'ancacuna. (various references)

Esperanto

notlibro, kajero (exercise-book, folder). (various references)

Faeroese

skrivihefti (exercise-book, folder), skrivibók, hefti (exercise-book, folder). (various references)

Farsi 

کتابچه یادداشت , دفتریادداشت (Folio), دفترتکالیف درسی . (various references)

Finnish

vihko (book notebook, exercise book, exercise-book, folder). (various references)

French

cahier, carnet. (various references)

Frisian

opskriuwboekje (agenda, appointment book). (various references)

German

notizbuch (agenda, appointment book, diary, note-book, pocketbook, tickler), Heft (book, booklet, comic, exercise book, exercise-book, folder, grip, haft, handle, hilt, issue, knob, magazine, number). (various references)

Greek 

καρνέ (pocket bock), σημειωματάριο (jotter, memo book). (various references)

Hawaiian

fletore. (various references)

Hebrew 

מחברת (copybook), פנקס (journal, ledger, pad, pocket book, register, tablet), חוברת (booklet, brochure, issue, pamphlet, tract), דפדפת (block, scratch pad, tablet), ספר זכרונות (diary). (various references)

Hungarian

jegyzetfüzet (book, jotter, note book, note-book, pocketbook). (various references)

Inuktitut

titirakviksaq. (various references)

Italian

taccuino (agenda, diary, engagement book, pocketbook, tickler). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雑記帳 (exercise book), 筆記帳 , 双紙 (books, copybook, fiction, storybook), ノースウェスト准州 (copy-book, Do not touch!, exercise book, know-how, no bra, no brand, no frost, no outs, No parking, no play, No smoking, no time, Nobel, nobelium, noble, node, no-hit no-run game, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest, Northwest Territories, NOTAM, notice to airmen, notorious, panty-less, sleeveless, wearing no underwear, without a helmet), 控え帳 , 手帳　, 手帳 , 手帖 , 冊子　 (book, booklet, pamphlet, story book), 冊子 (book, booklet, copy-book, pamphlet, story book, storybook), 備忘録 (memorandum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ノート (copy-book, exercise book, mart), そうし (books, cadet, copybook, copy-book, creation, fiction, founding, initiating, mutual affection or love, ruffian, small shrine, Song poetry, storybook, swaggerer, young man in his prime), ざっきちょう (exercise book), びぼうろく (memorandum), ひっきちょう, ひかえちょう, さっし (book, booklet, brush, commutator brush, conjecture, consideration, guess, judgment, pamphlet, story book), てちょう. (various references)

Korean 

노트북. (various references)

Macedonian

tatratka. (various references)

Malay

kitab (book, exercise-book, folder). (various references)

Manx

lioar screeuee (writing book). (various references)

Papiamen

skreft (exercise-book, folder), skref (exercise-book, folder). (various references)

Pig Latin

otebooknay.(various references)

Portuguese

caderno (book, copybook, exercise book, folder). (various references)

Provencal

quasèrn. (various references)

Romanian

carnet (book, card, minute book, note book), blocnotes (book, Jotter, memorandum book), agendã (agenda, card, case book, pocket book). (various references)

Ruanda

igitabo co kwandikiramwo. (various references)

Russian 

тетрадь (drawing block, drawing-block, exercise book, folder, note book, workbook). (various references)

Samoan

tusi laititi. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

notna sveska (note book), tefter (note book), sveska (copybook, fascicule, note book, volume), dnevnik (daybook, diary, journal, note book), beležnica (note book). (various references)

Spanish

libritode memoria, cuaderno (cahier, composition book, exercise book, logbook), carnet (attempt, book, licence, license, light, test). (various references)

Swedish

notisbok, skrivbok (exercise book, exercise-book, folder), annotationsbok. (various references)

Thai

สมุด. (various references)

Turkish

defter (book, register, registry). (various references)

Turkmen 

depder. (various references)

Ukrainian

зошит (copy-book), записна книжка (pocketbook, sketch book, sketchpad), блокнот (notepad, tablet, writing pad). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sổ tay (commonplace-book, manual), sổ ghi chép. (various references)

commentarius. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "notebook": notebooks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Notebook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nocebos, Nooteboom, Notenbuch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: beknot, betook.

-3 letters: beton, token.

-4 letters: bent, bone, bonk, book, boon, boot, ebon, keno, kent, keto, knob, knot, kobo, koto, nook, note, oboe, onto, toke, tone, took, toon.

-5 letters: ben, bet, boo, bot, eon, ken, kob, neb, net, nob, noo, not, obe, oke, one, oot, ten, toe, ton, too.

+1 letter: notebooks.

+4 letters: buttonhooked.