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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
notebook
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spiral notebook
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ Look out for Viglen's new notebook.
▪ Now that he had embarked on the Stillman case, he felt that a new notebook was in order.
▪ Soon Karen had to begin a new notebook.
▪ But I did buy Miles a new notebook and helped him make an audiotape of a Star Wars play he had written.
red
▪ Water carafe and glass. Red notebook Bed linen Samba square dance double duvet cover; pillowcase.
▪ Quinn flapped the red notebook nervously against his right thigh, stood on his tiptoes, and peered into the throng.
▪ Stillman was sitting alone on a bench, staring out at nothing in particular, the little red notebook on his lap.
▪ After his meal, he began to write in the red notebook.
▪ Nevertheless, he tried to face the end of the red notebook with courage.
▪ He ate what he could of the food and then went back to writing in the red notebook.
▪ Then he opened the red notebook.
▪ In the end, it was the red notebook that offered him salvation.
small
▪ He took out his small notebook, found the number for Kriminalpolizei in Wiesbaden, dialled Kuhlmann's personal number.
▪ He pulled a small notebook from his pants and slowly recorded his intake.
▪ Tweed checked the small notebook he rested on his knee.
▪ I even carried a small notebook.
▪ Lux opened a small spiral notebook.
spiral
▪ He took a page out of his spiral notebook and replied at once, mainly answering questions.
▪ This definition, however, has more loopholes than a spiral notebook.
▪ Lux opened a small spiral notebook.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ Its SPARCbook 2 notebook computer is expected early next year.
▪ The Presario 1000, a multimedia notebook computer.
▪ GRiD also holds the Patent on the idea of a fold-up screen which is part of every laptop, or notebook computer.
▪ Almost since the invention of the notebook computer, buyers have complained about its cost.
▪ A new San Jose-based subsidiary of the huge company has begun shipping its first products: notebook computers aimed at business users.
■ VERB
carry
▪ Always carry a notebook with you!
▪ I even carried a small notebook.
▪ Under one of the saucers she carried an open shorthand notebook.
▪ He commenced to carry round a notebook and write down what we said.
▪ Mr Nhieu carried a notebook everywhere with him, and wrote copious official notes.
fill
▪ Some assiduously fill notebooks with writing: incipient novelists or thesis writers?
▪ He filled notebooks with drawings, observations and inventions designed to answer these questions.
▪ But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry, with which he had filled several notebooks.
▪ Soon Evan had filled his notebook page with memories of diving under the water to get a closer look at the boat.
▪ We filled a great many notebooks with testing data but learnt very little about the strength of materials.
▪ Too alert to sleep, I fill my notebook with sketches of the nubble under the quarter moon while Margaret naps.
▪ After filling several notebook pages with black scrawl, I stopped the recorder.
▪ Often bedridden, young Toulouse-Lautrec developed his artistic abilities by filling notebooks with sketches.
keep
▪ I kept a notebook of what I made each day.
▪ Another strategy my children use is to keep their notebooks open to a blank page while reading one of their books.
▪ Nevertheless we are told that he kept tablets or notebooks under his pillow, and would practise his letters from time to time.
▪ He kept a notebook full of characters' names, prospective titles and slang.
▪ I had also begun to keep a notebook in which I wrote details of my observations, complete with explanatory drawings.
▪ That page could start a work notebook you ought to be keeping.
▪ He kept a notebook of travel times, distances and other observations.
look
▪ Anne looked up from her notebook as Emilio and Sofia joined the others.
▪ I looked at the notebook of the woman next to me; it was full of circles and triangles.
▪ The startled reporters looked up from their notebooks.
open
▪ Days since I opened this notebook.
▪ Then he opened the red notebook.
▪ I flicked open my notebook and called her number.
▪ Lux opened a small spiral notebook.
▪ She uncovered her typewriter, flipped open her notebook and was soon immersed in a draft of the lengthy Ghent report.
▪ He opened the red notebook and set it squarely on his lap.
pull
▪ Viol pulled out a notebook and a biro.
▪ He pulled a small notebook from his pants and slowly recorded his intake.
▪ I began to notice that whenever I pulled out my notebook and maps, people closed like slamming doors and wandered away.
put
▪ She had put a notebook and a pencil beside the phone.
take
▪ I took a fresh notebook from the glove compartment and started back to talk to them.
▪ Blue takes out his own notebook and writes: Feb. 3, 3 P. M. Black writing at his desk.
▪ Silently he took the notebook from her nerveless fingers and dropped it on the floor.
▪ The next day I would take a brand-new notebook from my bag.
▪ Doug took out his notebook and wrote laboriously in it.
▪ He took out his small notebook, found the number for Kriminalpolizei in Wiesbaden, dialled Kuhlmann's personal number.
▪ The sergeant smiled and took out his notebook.
▪ Then he put the envelope back in his pocket, took out a little notebook and waited expectantly.
use
▪ Can you see the kinds of books a particular publisher tends to market? Use your notebook here.
▪ The list can be prepared by hand, using your own notebook or a booklet available free from many insurance agents.
▪ Mama had stopped using the notebook when she'd become too ill for them to have any more happy times together.
▪ Jen was using the notebook to get her e-mail and check her newsgroups on the Internet.
▪ It may help if you use a notebook to write down the point you want to make.
▪ This just isn't the same as using a notebook in transit.
▪ But the Canon may be a smart idea if you need to use your notebook and print on the move.
write
▪ As they searched, they wrote down in a notebook details of all the things they found.
▪ Sure enough, Black is already at his desk by the window, writing in the same notebook as the day before.
▪ Images Street Image She's busy and alert, writing in her notebook, or studying a street map.
▪ After his meal, he began to write in the red notebook.
▪ He was sitting on the gate ahead of me, writing in a notebook.
▪ He ate what he could of the food and then went back to writing in the red notebook.
▪ The reason why I have a soft spot for this notebook, he wrote.
▪ All he can say for certain, therefore, is that Black is writing in a notebook with a red fountain pen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A teacher had assigned the class to make a composition by taping personal objects into a notebook.
▪ As they searched, they wrote down in a notebook details of all the things they found.
▪ Couldn't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page.
▪ He closed his notebook, stood up, made a motion at Vinny Pearson.
▪ His companion was thin and nervy and carried a notebook.
▪ Imagine having your own self-contained knowledge manipulator in a portable package the size and shape of an ordinary notebook.
▪ In the main compartment were two very old-looking notebooks bound in calfskin; nothing else.
▪ Viol pulled out a notebook and a biro.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Notebook

Notebook \Note"book`\, n.

  1. A book in which notes or memorandums are written.

  2. A book in which notes of hand are registered.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
notebook

1570s, from note + book (n.).

Wiktionary
notebook

n. 1 A book in which notes or memorandum are written. 2 (context computing English) notebook computer, a class of laptop computer.

WordNet
notebook
  1. n. a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda

  2. a small compact portable computer [syn: notebook computer]

Wikipedia
Notebook

A notebook (notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, legal pad) is a small book or binder of paper pages, often ruled, used for purposes such as recording notes or memoranda, writing, drawing, or scrapbooking.

Notebook (style)

Notebook is a style of writing where people jot down what they have thought or heard at the spur of moment. The contents of a notebook are unorganized, and the number of subjects covered in a notebook are unlimited: a paragraph of autobiography can be followed immediately by one on astronomy or one on history.

Some famous authors are also famous for the notebooks they left. The Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi kept a notebook, called Zibaldone, from 1817 to 1832. The idea of keeping that, which contains no fewer than 4,526 pages, was possibly suggested by a priest who fled from the French Revolution and came to live in the poet's hometown. The priest suggested that "every literary man should have a written chaos such as this: notebook containing sottiseries, adrersa, excerpta, pugillares, commentaria... the store-house out of which fine literature of every kind may come, as the sun, moon, and stars issued out of chaos."

There are writers who earned their posthumous fame solely by their notebooks, such as the German scientist and humorous writer Georg Lichtenberg. He called his notebooks "waste book," using the English book-keeping term. He explains the purpose of his "waste book" in his notebook E:

Die Kaufleute haben ihr Waste book (Sudelbuch, Klitterbuch glaube ich im deutschen), darin tragen sie von Tag zu Tag alles ein was sie verkaufen und kaufen, alles durch einander ohne Ordnung, aus diesem wird es in das Journal getragen, wo alles mehr systematisch steht ... Dieses verdient von den Gelehrten nachgeahmt zu werden. Erst ein Buch worin ich alles einschreibe, so wie ich es sehe oder wie es mir meine Gedancken eingeben, alsdann kann dieses wieder in ein anderes getragen werden, wo die Materien mehr abgesondert und geordnet sind.

"Tradesmen have their 'waste book' (scrawl-book, composition book I think in German), in which they enter from day to day everything they buy and sell, everything all mixed up without any order to it, from there it is transferred to the day-book, where everything appears in more systematic fashion ... This deserves to be imitated by scholars. First a book where I write down everything as I see it or as my thoughts put it before me, later this can be transcribed into another, where the materials are more distinguished and ordered."

The notebooks of scientists, such as those of Michael Faraday and Charles Darwin, can reveal the development of their scientific theories. On the other hand, the notebooks used by scientists for recording their experiments are called lab notebooks.

The notebooks used by artists are usually referred to as sketchbooks, which may contain more than sketches. Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks contain his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions and music, as well as his sketches, his grocery lists and the names of people who owed him money.

In Chinese literature, "notebook" or biji is a distinct genre, and has a broader meaning.

Notebook (disambiguation)

A notebook is a small book often used for writing.

Notebook or The Notebook may also refer to:

Notebook (2006 film)

Notebook ( Malayalam: നോട്ട്ബുക്ക്‌) is a 2006 Malayalam teen film directed by Rosshan Andrrews and written by Bobby Sanjay. It is about three students at a boarding school and how they face up to challenges in their lives. The film dealt with the subject of teenage pregnancy. The film was praised for handling a rare and relevant subject, but the overall critical and box-office responses were mixed.

Notebook (2013 film)

Notebook is Nepali romance film directed by Yogesh ghimire and produced by Joshi Pragya for Pragya Films, starring Jiwan Luitel , Shen Sapkota, Neeta Dhungana, Sushma Karki, Sunil Thapa, Dhruba Koirala, Laya Sangraula, Sashita Phuyal, and Pavitra Adhikari.

Usage examples of "notebook".

Corsarius, and a personal notebook in the hand of Christopher Sim, are on display at the Center for Accadian Studies.

Pulling out his own notebook, wetting a thumb and leafing back the pages, he began to walk Angleton through his series of barium meals.

There was a bronze plaque screwed into a boulder announcing the start of the Appalachian Trail, and nearby on a post was a wooden box containing a Bic pen on a length of string and a standard spiral notebook, its pages curled from the damp air.

Everything he could think of that might help or amuse the Aucas, should they pay the men a visit, Jim put into the bag: harmonica, snakebite kit, flashlight, View-Master with picture reels, yo-yo, and, above all, the precious notebook of Auca language material, with the carefully arranged morphology file.

He gave up and got out the jaunty little calfbound notebook Claudia had given him instead.

From under a pile of papers she drew out two objects, a ward on a ribbon and a small, clothbound notebook.

It was littered with scraps of paper and he was busily scribbling in the battered clothbound notebook that accompanied him everywhere.

She slammed the notebook shut as though she had put Miss Elson in a box and slammed the lid.

Miss Elson and Miss Harris say that you do nothing whatever anymore but write in that notebook.

When no notebook was found, Miss Elson patted Harriet on the head like a good puppy and went back to her desk in the front.

Meg, going in with his coffee, saw that he was already deep in his post, with Miss Stan dish, enviably efficient, sitting close by, notebook and pencil at the ready.

The Twelve Monkeys have their own long table and are seated there in some very precise hierarchical order known only to them, each positioned exactly the same with his ankles crossed under his chair and a steno notebook and towering bottle of Evian at his left hand.

Klaus used the Quagmire notebooks to study for the comprehensive exams, and everything worked the way it should.

I could get the notebook and pencil out of my pocket The Kid would get a message that would land you in jail and hang Gato Mgungu into the bargain.

That was why I detected a heavyheartedness somewhere in the notebooks.