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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jottings
noun
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▪ But within a couple of pages, it's back to the hollow sound of random jottings.
▪ Just a few jottings on an envelope are better than nothing.
▪ Just a few jottings on an interesting rail topic can make useful copy.
▪ Milligan's jottings have often had a strong environmental message as well.
▪ Roland asked if it was in order for him to study these jottings.
▪ So I feel that all these jottings of the past forty years properly belong in a corner of that institution's cellar.
▪ That's why I was quite happy to peruse my lady's jottings.
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jottings

n. (plural of jotting English)

Usage examples of "jottings".

She recalled its reams of nebulous jottings, heliotypes and inexpert sketches, notes, questions, and mementos.

For good measure, it added a parallel-beam photographed copy of Webb's jottings, publishing them with the editorial opinion that this scientist had been working along the right lines prior to his death.

We owe this fragment of biography, as we do almost all the recollections of Knecht's personal life, to the jottings of a pupil of the Glass Bead Game, a loyal admirer who kept a record of many of the remarks and stories of his great teacher.

A notebook of jottings from that period, dealing with the meaning and theory of the Game, begins with the sentence: "The whole of both physical and mental life is a dynamic phenomenon, of which the Glass Bead Game basically comprehends only the aesthetic side, and does so predominantly as an image of rhythmic processes.

He opened it and tossed in his battered briefcase, which contained a box of 9mm ammunition, a yellow pad filled with his jottings, various memos on the Kwan Ang case and a well-read book of Goethe's poems.