Notebook

  

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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)

 

Specialty Definition: Notebook

DomainDefinition

Computing

Notebook 1. laptop computer. 2. Labtech Notebook. (1998-01-05). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Specialty Definition: Notebook

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A notebook is a book of blank, lined or graph paper on which notes may be written. Students often carry individual notebooks in order to take notes for different courses they may be taking in school.

A notebook or laptop is also a mobile computer.

Notebook is a personal Wiki. Notebook runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and any other platform with TCL/TK support.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Notebook."

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Synonym: Notebook

Synonym: notebook computer (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Notebook

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Record

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

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Notebook

English words defined with "notebook": commonplace bookIndex rerumjotternotebook entryTablebook. (references)
Specialty definitions using "notebook": DRILL-PUNCH OPERATOR, Dual In-line Memory ModuleLabtech Notebook, local busPersonal Computer Memory Card International Association, PowerPC G3Small Outline DIMMTrackpoint. (references)

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Modern Usage: Notebook

DomainUsage

Screenplays

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

Lyrics

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

Movie/TV Titles

Notebook (1963)

Canadian Notebook (1953)

Wayne Freedman's Notebook (1998)

Notebook from China (1986)

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

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Commercial Usage: Notebook

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

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.

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Image Slideshow: Notebook

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Photo Album: Notebook

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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.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Notebook
 

"Notebook and a pen" by Henrique Yoshimura
Commentary: "A notebook with a fountain-pen upon it and a sketch at the side."
"Dual dell notebook 1" by Balázs Kovács
Commentary: "My two DELL notebooks - Latitude C610 and C640."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Notebook

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

The Professor looked annoyed, and shut up his notebook again

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Notebook

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Notebook

"Notebook" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.49% of the time. "Notebook" is used about 756 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.49%7379,199
Noun (common)1.59%12101,599
Noun (proper)0.92%7133,076
                    Total100.00%756N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Notebook

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

Hyphenated Usage

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

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

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Notebook

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

notebook

6,014

notebook accessory

121

notebook computer

2,470

notebook computer review

120

toshiba notebook

562

sager notebook

118

sony notebook

449

refurbished notebook computer

99

refurbished notebook

397

apple notebook

98

used notebook

374

fujitsu notebook

95

dell notebook

343

cheap notebook computer

93

notebook battery

323

notebook carrying case

90

notebook review

259

discount notebook computer

89

notebook case

254

davincis notebook

80

notebook hard drive

254

acer notebook

76

cheap notebook

246

notebook for sale

75

compaq notebook

234

discount notebook

74

hp notebook

231

best notebook

74

laptop notebook

208

gateway notebook

73

ibm notebook

206

sharp notebook

71

sony vaio notebook

196

notebook computer case

69

notebook memory

180

notebook backpack

67

pc notebook

161

centrino notebook

64

used notebook computer

153

notebook part

62
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Notebook

Language Translations for "notebook"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Notebook

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

commentarius. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Notebook

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, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Notebook"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "notebook" (pronounced nō"tbuh'k)
4-t b uh' kpocketbook, textbook.
3-b uh' kcheckbook, cookbook, guidebook, handbook, hornbook, logbook, matchbook, overbook, passbook, Schoolbook, scrapbook, sketchbook, sourcebook, storybook, yearbook.

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

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Anagrams: Notebook

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-k-n-o-o-o-t"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-k-n-o-o-o-t"
 

+1 letter: notebooks.

 

+4 letters: buttonhooked.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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