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Definition of Keep note
1. Verb. Maintain in the forefront of one's awareness. "He kept note of the location of the soldiers"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep Note
Literary usage of Keep note
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"... the head of the machine was wrapped with heavy asbestos board and carpeting,
aud, in order to keep note of any temperature change that might occur, ..."
2. The Children's Library, a Dynamic Factor in Education by Sophia Hill Hulsizer Powell (1917)
"Home reading is reported on in school and in addition the children keep note books.
In Utica (NY) a regular course of home reading is planned for the pupils ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1883)
"Francis Parsons, Hartford, Conn., B, writes: "We keep note-books about birds that
we see, the weather, first snow-storm, etc. A friend of ours hangs out ..."
4. Geoffrey de Mandeville: A Study of the Anarchy by John Horace Round (1892)
"... further still:— " Gloucester, a royal castle, stood on the Severn bank, at
one angle of the Roman city. It had a mound and a thell-keep, note utterly ..."
5. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1892)
"25. look he keep : note the mode of the second verb. 27. I reasoned : common
enough in Shakespeare in this sense. 29. How art? the five accents to bo found ..."
6. Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster by John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler (1891)
"IT was Hawthorne's wont to keep note-books, in which he recorded his observations
and reflections; sometimes he spoke in them of himself, his plans, ..."
7. The Political Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"to keep NOTE.— Stats. 1863-4, p. 256, Sees. 4, 6. 3342. The Chief of every fire
department must inquire into the cause of every fire occurring in the city ..."
8. American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell (1880)
"IT was Hawthorne's wont to keep note-books, ii which he recorded his observations
and reflections ; sometimes he spoke in them of himself, his plans, ..."
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