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note
note in musical notation , symbol placed on or between the lines of a staff to indicate the pitch and the relative duration of the tone to be produced by voice or instrument. The largest note value in common use in the United States is the whole note, an elliptical outline. Its value is halved by... Read more |
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promissory note
promissory note unconditional written promise to pay a certain sum of money at a definite time to bearer or to a specified person on his order. Promissory notes are generally used as evidence of debt. The holder of a note made payable to bearer may transfer his rights to another by delivery of the... Read more |
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Bank failures
COUNTERFEITING COUNTERFEITING. To counterfeit means to imitate with intent to defraud. Most counterfeit paper money can be classified in one of three categories: (1) notes that imitate legitimate notes; (2) alterations of legitimate notes, including notes raised from a lower to a higher... Read more |
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Maker
MAKER One who makes, frames, executes, or ordains; as a lawmaker, or the maker of a promissory note. One who signs a note to borrow and, as such, assumes the obligation to pay the note when due. The person who creates or executes a note, that is, issues it, and in signing the instrument makes the... Read more |
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Sibbecai
Sibbecai or Sibbechai , in the Bible, one of David's guard, noted for his fight with the Philistine giant. He is also called Mebunnai.... Read more |
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negotiable instrument
negotiable instrument bill of exchange, check, promissory note, or other written contract for payment that may serve as a substitute for money. It is simple in form and easy to transfer. Transfer of a negotiable instrument, accomplished by delivery or endorsement and delivery, gives the new holder... Read more |
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gamut
gamut a complete scale of musical notes; the compass or range of a voice or instrument. Earlier, a scale consisting of seven overlapping hexachords, containing all the recognized notes used in medieval music, covering almost three octaves from bass G to treble E. The word comes from medieval Latin... Read more |
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primitive methodists
primitive methodists broke away from the main Wesleyan body and formed their own connexion in 1811, led by Hugh Bourne, a carpenter, and William Clowes, a potter, who had been expelled for holding American-style camp-meetings at Mow Cop (Staffs.). Condemned by the middle-class churches as... Read more |
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variorum
variorum an edition of an author's works having notes by various editors or commentators, and often including variant readings from manuscripts or earlier editions. The word is Latin, and comes (in the early 18th century) from editio cum notis variorum ‘edition with notes by various... Read more |
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Bills and Notes
BILLS AND NOTES An archaic term that designated the body of law currently known as the law of commercial paper, which governs the methods by which commercial transactions are financed and facilitated by the execution and transfer of documents that contain promises to repay debts according to the... Read more |
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Conference, The
...Conference, The, a private meeting of the justices of the Supreme...the previous week. While meeting times have varied, the basic...several late September daylong meetings in the 1970s. These meetings...no formal records of these meetings ... |
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Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The
...a fortune in coins, and a note announcing that the money is...s leading men then receive notes pretending to divulge the remark...made the remark. At a town meeting, 18 of the citizens are exposed...Rev. Mr. Burgess reads the notes setting forth their ... |
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Spirituals
...ministers who led a series of camp meetings in the early 1800s. Through the...songs that, during the camp meetings, provided the material from...their own songs. The “camp meeting spiritual,” with texts of...held together by the camp meeting shout ... |
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Students for a Democratic Society
...change in postwar America. In June 1962, fifty‐nine members meeting at a labor‐union resort in Michigan drafted The Port Huron...Chicago, 1987. Alice Echols , We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Notes toward a Remapping of the Sixties, Socialist Review 22 (April... |
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Commons, House of
...identity. In 1547 they were granted St Stephen's chapel as their meeting place and stayed there until the great fire of 1834. At the same...the House were composed of 659 genuinely independent members.Note first the long-standing rule that increases in taxation and... |
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Lebensraum
...it was propounded by Hitler at a secret meeting with Blomberg, Neurath, and his three...who, against Hitler's orders, took notes of what Hitler said and later turned them...known as the Hossbach Memorandum. This meeting was revealed to the world at the Nuremberg... |
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Maugham, W. Somerset
...a house at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, which became a meeting place for writers and politicians.Among Maugham's plays...attachment. A Writer's Notebook (1949) consists of extracts from notes which Maugham kept from the age of 18 and shows him as sharp... |
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
...Clarence King, published in 1872 and revised from the author's notes in 1902. King had been employed in the U.S. Geological Survey...on Mount Tyndall, Mount Shasta, and Mount Whitney, and of meetings with picturesque and typical characters, such as the chapters... |
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Moorcock, Michael
...character, Jerry Cornelius, was described by Brian Aldiss as the meeting-point of ‘the world of Ronald Firbank and Ian Fleming’. The...psychiatric outpatients from the Blitz to the 1980s. Other works of note include The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1982), Blood: A Southern... |
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Weir of Hermiston
...The novel ends as Archie, warned by the jealous Kirstie, tells Christina that their secret meetings must end. We know from Stevenson's notes that the novel was to end with another confrontation between father and son, in which Archie is... |
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sharp
...pitch. ∎ [in comb.] (of a note) a semitone higher than a specified note: the song sits on E and F...an expression of time): the meeting starts at 7:30 sharp. 2...playing a little sharp on the high notes. • n. 1. a musical note raised a ... |
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tie
...Mus. unite (written notes) by a tie. ∎ Mus. perform (two notes) as one unbroken note. 3. [intr.] achieve...line above or below two notes of the same...would be tied up at the meeting all day. tie something... |
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curlew sign
...there is no cond. This sign, when placed over a note or rest, indicates that the singer or instrumentalist...other performers have reached the next barline or meeting-point. Thus the note or rest may be longer or shorter than its written... |
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pencil
...as adj.] (penciled) a penciled note. PHRASAL VERBS: pencil something in 1...penciled in. 2. arrange, forecast, or note down something provisionally or tentatively...15 was penciled in as the date for the meeting. ∎ (pencil someone in) make a provisional... |
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Rogers, John
...Bible’. He became a Protestant in the Netherlands, soon after meeting W. Tyndale (d. 1536), and in 1537 under the name of...own share was confined to contributing prefaces and marginal notes. Returning to London in 1548, he was given parochial preferment... |
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call
...someone) to do something. ∎ fix a date or time for (a meeting, strike, or election). ∎ [intr.] guess the outcome of...characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. ∎ a series of notes sounded on a brass instrument as a signal to do something: a... |
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Commons, House of
...identity. In 1547 they were granted St Stephen's chapel as their meeting place and stayed there until the great fire of 1834. At the same...the House were composed of 659 genuinely independent members.Note first the long‐standing rule that increases in taxation... |
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staff
...the teachers in a school or college: [as adj.] a staff meeting. 2. [treated as sing. or pl.] a group of officers assisting...of five parallel lines and the spaces between them, on which notes are written to indicate their pitch. • v. [tr.] (usu... |
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Ives, Charles (Edward)
...for choir of 1896–1900 occur whole-tone scales, a 12-note row, tone clusters, polytonality, and polyrhythms. Aleatory procedures...2 (1900–2, some sketches earlier), No.3 (The Camp Meeting) (1904–11), No.4 (1910–16, with ch. in finale... |
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minute
...record of the proceedings at a meeting. ∎ an official memorandum authorizing...v. [tr.] record or note (the proceedings of a meeting or a specified item among such...minute the proceedings of each meeting. |
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note
note • noun 1. a note in her diary synonyms...informal memo. 2. (notes) his notes were read at the next meeting synonyms: minutes...summary, outline. 3. notes in the margins synonyms...4. he dropped me a note ... |
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fortuitous
...unintended, unplanned, unpremeditated.See note at accidental.antonym: predictable...heaven-sent.antonym: unlucky. USAGE NOTES fortuitous The traditional, etymological...happening by chance’: a fortuitous meeting is a chance meeting, which might turn out to ... |
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adjourn
adjourn • verb 1. the meeting was adjourned for lunch synonyms: suspend, break off, discontinue...postpone, put off, put back, defer, delay, hold over, shelve.See note at postpone. 3. they adjourned to the sitting room for liqueurs... |
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become
...something for. 5. it ill becomes him to preach the gospel during a board meeting synonyms: befit, suit, behoove. phrase: become of whatever became...fate of, be the lot of, overtake; literary befall, betide.See note at happen. |
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impersonate
impersonate • verb impersonating the boss during a meeting was not your smartest movesynonyms: imitate, mimic, do an impression of...oneself off as; informal take off, send up, make like; formal personate.See note at imitate. |
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jumble
...miscellany, motley collection, mixture, medley, gallimaufry. USAGE NOTES confusion, conglomeration, disarray, farrago, hodgepodge...discipline has been lost (his unexpected appearance threw the meeting into disarray). |
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muster
...call to arms, recruit, conscript, draft; archaic levy.See note at gather. 2. reporters mustered outside her house synonyms...colonel called a muster synonyms: roll call, assembly, rally, meeting, gathering, assemblage, congregation, convention; parade... |
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normal
...sane.antonyms: abnormal; unusual; irrational. USAGE NOTES average, natural, ordinary, regular, typical, usual Most...prescribed standards or established patterns (their regular monthly meeting; a regular guy), but normal carries stronger connotations... |
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secret
...See secretive. antonyms: public; open; obvious. USAGE NOTES clandestine, covert, furtive, stealthy, surreptitious...something illicit or immoral is being concealed (a clandestine meeting between the two lovers). Someone who is deliberately sneaking... |
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accidental
...accessory, irrelevant.antonyms: intentional; calculated. USAGE NOTES adventitious, casual, contingent, fortuitous, incidental...is about as far as one can get from accidental (a fortuitous meeting with the candidate outside the men's room just before the... |
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Notes pitched too high; The EU wants to force shops to take big denomination...
...taking these high-value notes for a spin around town...tour of Dublin with my notes, any such regulations...a temperance society meeting in Limerick on Good Friday...prepared to accept a e500 note. Two more shops were...relieve me of my e200 ... |
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Taking notes from Lotus: groupware is becoming the rage for business. (Lotus...
...cutting and team-building. Lotus Notes, the bestseller in a new category...shuffling and eliminating endless meetings. Businesses use Notes to conduct discussions, process...corporations are embracing Lotus Notes in a big way. Since its introduction... |
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Post-it(R) note advertising: A sticky problem deserves a sticky answer
...see a post-it(R) note ad in a magazine will...The Post-it(R) notes can be placed anywhere...Before the Post-it note product was introduced...said there were multiple meetings between the advertising...using the Post-it(R) note product on ... |
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3banana Notes for Android Smartphones Is One Of The Easiest Ways To Capture,...
...to professionals, 3banana Notes efficiency in capturing, synching...traction -- and fanfare. 3banana Notes for Android is a robust note-taking application (http...view and edit their private notes, share and discuss notes with...important ... |
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Class notes advance to Internet at Penn State U.
...class. "You know you have those class notes to fall back on," she said. " If you...Eighty-seven percent of Nittany Notes patrons still attend class, according to a survey conducted by the note service, said Tom Matis, the owner of Nittany Notes, 234 E. ... |
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Post-it Notes Help Web Content "Stick" Around.
...dispenser of Post-it(R) Notes sits on top of the Windows...working in. A click on the note pad dispenser creates a note that can be left on the desktop...on customized Memoboards. Notes can be organized by subject...make a phone call, attend a ... |
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NOTES goes from experimental to investigational with trial.
...Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery[R](NOTES) has been replaced with the...the novel technique. The 5th meeting of the Natural Orifice Surgery...oversight, and evaluation of NOTES techniques and the related research...trial were discussed at this meeting. ... |
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NOTES FROM SEVENTH GRADE SO MUCH TO SAY, SO LITTLE TIME TO TALK
...But, for the most part, notes are the province of girls. "We write notes to boys, we ask them who they...still have the need to pass a note the next morning in school...should parents worry? Most notes are pretty negligible in terms...involved, and sometimes ... |
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Louts Notes/Domino 6: a sneak preview.
...According to IBM Lotus Software, Notes/Domino serves 50,000 customers...and enhancements include: Notes 6 Domino 6 For End-Users...for smartcards and for online meetings, simplified certificate invitee...and authorization. tasking. Note: As with any beta ... |
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Notes provide brief glimpses into deliberations on Baltimore mayor's fate
...Juror No. 4 wrote a note -- asking if she was supposed to read all of the notes before passing them to...who also should see the notes sent by individual jurors...any type of community meeting," said Sandler, referring...and tensions. Other ... |
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