What's the difference between note and scrawl?

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.

Scrawl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Crawl.
  • (v. t.) To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.
  • (v. i.) To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
  • (n.) Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
  • (2) I got the job aged 19 because the manager had scrawled "Good hair!"
  • (3) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
  • (4) The paintings by Klimt displayed on these pages are pieces of modern intellectual history to set beside a formula scrawled by Albert Einstein or a score by Arnold Schönberg.
  • (5) Shortly after Hopkins’s original message, Monroe, a contributor to the Guardian, tweeted in response: “I have NEVER ‘scrawled on a memorial’.
  • (6) They decided to go for it, and grew wise to the tabloid tactic of cropping out their banners – they began scrawling slogans directly on their breasts.
  • (7) The tone was light years from "fuck the rich" already scrawled on banks (and an Ann Summers sex shop) down the road.
  • (8) They arrived in a black Camaro with Dare (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) scrawled on its side in blazing faux graffiti, one officer explaining how his department had seized it from a drug dealer.
  • (9) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
  • (10) At their wedding ceremony in 1985, Penn scrawled “Fuck off” in the sand at the media helicopters flying overhead.
  • (11) Iran-UK relations: 12 moments in a troubled history Read more Sitting a few feet from the scrawl, Philip Hammond, the first British foreign secretary to visit Iran for well over a decade, had come to reopen the embassy , and open a new chapter in Anglo-Iranian affairs.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child plays in a destroyed Ukrainian tank, scrawled with the slogan Save the Donbass people from Ukrainian army.
  • (13) Spoofs are no longer one-off scrawls that fade on individual walls, but community in-jokes that take on a virtual life of their own.
  • (14) There was a predictable flurry of outrage; the then culture minister Kim Howells, commenting on the exhibition as a whole, scrawled "conceptual bullshit" across a Tate comment card and pinned it to the visitors' wall.
  • (15) He scrawls "black spider memos" to government ministers, calls secretaries of state into Clarence House for private conversations about policy, and writes confidential notes to high-level contacts to get planning matters changed.
  • (16) Fulham thought they'd secured the striker's scrawl, but it now seems that Big Sam might be on the verge of throwing a spanner in the works.
  • (17) On November 5, Chumlong Lemtongthai, a 43-year-old Thai national, put his tightly scrawled signature to a guilty plea that was submitted to a South African court.
  • (18) That includes the eight-year-old who scrawled his teacher's picture.
  • (19) Quite soon, I discovered I could balance a notebook on my knee and, with a pencil, scrawl notes about my experience in a big black notebook.
  • (20) He spots a scrawled reference to the legendary Tina Brown upside down in my notebook across his glass-topped desk.