What's the difference between billet and note?

Billet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter.
  • (n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
  • (v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
  • (n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
  • (n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
  • (n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
  • (n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
  • (n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
  • (n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the St George Hotel in Darlington, where they were billeted for the group stage, there was endless confusion at orders of rice and soy sauce for breakfast.
  • (2) Were she honoured in Stockholm, it would also be a generous and welcome boost to the morale of all those struggling manfully to honour Frau Merkel’s confident ‘Yes, we can’ by coping practically with the asylum seekers billeted daily on their towns and villages.
  • (3) The misogynist masterpiss billets half the population to the whorehouse.
  • (4) The measured (3)JHNHalpha coupling constants and the intensity of the intraresidue HN-Halpha NOEs agree well with the solution structures of three of the proteins, using the existing parametrization of the Karplus curve (Pardi, A., Billeter, M. and Wuthrich, K. (1984) J. Mol.
  • (5) The nucleotide sequences (13 to 26 nucleotides) and map positions of these oligonucleotides were known from previous work (Billeter, M. A.
  • (6) Supplier relations Since Adelca’s demand for scrap metals is greater than the supply – and recycled scrap costs less than imported billets – the company has invested in building up its network of recyclers, including donating metal cutting equipment, offering loans, providing and paying for training and promising the best price for the scrap metals provided.
  • (7) According to Isabel Meza, head of integrated management at Adelca, by importing fewer billets, they are saving $12m (£7.6m) on the 20,000 tonnes of steel they produce every month.
  • (8) Untreated beech waste -- forest billets -- showed a low digestibility (5.6%) and that of zero fibre was somewhat higher (12.6%).
  • (9) Occasionally it is alleged that the billet began to totter during the stroke and that the left hand responded to this stimulus by an unwilled movement to the billet.
  • (10) Objects were beech-billets with relatively big cross-section areas.
  • (11) A map of the large T1 oligonucleotides of the RNA of Prague Rous sarcoma virus, strain B (Pr RSVb) has recently been established (Coffin and Billeter, submitted for publication).
  • (12) Rozanne used to bicycle from what she describes in wartime slang as her "billet" with a working-class couple, the Dickenses, in Fenny Stratford.
  • (13) Those billeted on the other side of the building will look out at the intriguing, if bizarre, sight of a huge deserted, cylindrical former hotel in a typically bold Oscar Niemeyer design.
  • (14) Clearly running Centrica – or SSE or npower, both of which have also changed their chief executives in the past year or so – is not the easiest billet in the commercial universe.
  • (15) 246, 5003-5024) and the cognate nucleotide sequence recently determined in our laboratory (C. Escarmis and M. A. Billeter, unpublished results).
  • (16) Seven young soldiers, billeted in their house, made a mascot of young Alfred, who was profoundly impressed by the encounter.
  • (17) Complete sequence-specific assignments of the 1H NMR spectrum of bungarotoxin were reported in the previous paper [Basus, V.J., Billeter, M., Love, R.A., Stroud, R.M., & Kuntz, I.D.
  • (18) The working assumption is all billets are going to be open by the end of the year,” he said.
  • (19) She has always hunted out old letters from antique markets, little scraps of billets-doux and deeds of sale, faint tracings of forgotten human hope in copperplate, the ink faded to brown and grey.
  • (20) If Clegg returns to the Cabinet Offices, where the deputy prime minister is billeted, and insists that the terrorism laws are indeed changed in line with the wishes of his party conference, I will take all this back.

Note


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To butt; to push with the horns.
  • () Know not; knows not.
  • (n.) Nut.
  • (n.) Need; needful business.
  • (n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
  • (n.) A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
  • (n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
  • (n.) A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
  • (n.) Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.
  • (n.) A short informal letter; a billet.
  • (n.) A diplomatic missive or written communication.
  • (n.) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
  • (n.) A list of items or of charges; an account.
  • (n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:
  • (n.) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
  • (n.) A key of the piano or organ.
  • (n.) Observation; notice; heed.
  • (n.) Notification; information; intelligence.
  • (n.) State of being under observation.
  • (n.) Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
  • (n.) Stigma; brand; reproach.
  • (n.) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
  • (n.) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
  • (n.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.
  • (n.) To denote; to designate.
  • (n.) To annotate.
  • (n.) To set down in musical characters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (2) Clonal abnormalities involving chromosomes 3 and 21 were noted in two patients.
  • (3) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (4) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (5) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
  • (6) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
  • (7) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (8) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
  • (9) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
  • (10) No differences in cardiac output were noted in surviving animals.
  • (11) They also note surveys that show British voters becoming more Eurosceptic, not less.
  • (12) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (13) It should be noted that about a half of the plasmids (11 out of 21) belonged to the incompatibility group P-7 which up to the present time was conditional, since was represented by a single plasmid Rms 148.
  • (14) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (15) On HRCT, sequential changes from early edema to development of emphysema were noted.
  • (16) Valve-related complications were noted in four patients.
  • (17) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
  • (18) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
  • (19) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (20) It has been noted before that Campbell is rather an effective operator.