The difference between Listen and Note

When used as verbs, listen means to pay attention to a sound or speech, whereas note means to notice with care.

Note is also noun with the meaning: a mark or token by which a thing may be known.

check bellow for the other definitions of Listen and Note

  1. Listen as a verb (intransitive):

    To pay attention to a sound or speech.

    Examples:

    "Please listen carefully as I explain.  nowrap I like to listen to music."

  2. Listen as a verb (intransitive):

    To expect or wait for a sound, such as a signal.

    Examples:

    "You should listen for the starting gun."

  3. Listen as a verb (intransitive):

    To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.

    Examples:

    "'Listen, the only reason I yelled at you was because nowrap I was upset, OK?  nowrap Good children listen to their parents."

  4. Listen as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.

  1. Note as a noun:

    A symbol or annotation. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. 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. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.

  2. Note as a noun:

    A written or printed communication or commitment. A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. A short informal letter; a billet. A diplomatic missive or written communication. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment A list of items or of charges; an account. A piece of paper money; a banknote. A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.

    Examples:

    "I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash."

    "a [[promissory note promissory note]]"

    "a note of hand"

    "a negotiable note"

    "I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note."

  3. Note as a noun (music):

    A sound. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. A key of the piano or organ.

  4. Note as a noun (uncountable):

    Observation; notice; heed.

  5. Note as a noun (uncountable):

    Reputation; distinction.

    Examples:

    "a poet of note'"

  6. Note as a noun (obsolete):

    Notification; information; intelligence.

  7. Note as a noun (obsolete):

    Mark of disgrace.

  1. Note as a verb (transitive):

    To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.

    Examples:

    "If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral."

  2. Note as a verb (transitive):

    To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

    Examples:

    "We noted his speech."

  3. Note as a verb (transitive):

    To denote; to designate.

    Examples:

    "The modular multiplicative inverse of ''x'' may be noted ''x''<sup>-1</sup>."

  4. Note as a verb (transitive):

    To annotate.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek W. H. Dixon"

  5. Note as a verb (transitive):

    To set down in musical characters.

  6. Note as a verb (transitive):

    To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

  1. Note as a noun (uncountable, UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland):

    That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.

  2. Note as a noun (UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland):

    The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.

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