interest vs note

interest

noun
  • Attention that is given to or received from someone or something. 

  • A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. 

  • An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor. 

  • The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. 

  • Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance. 

  • Any excess over and above an exact equivalent 

  • The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively. 

  • Something or someone one is interested in. 

verb
  • To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing. 

note

noun
  • Observation; notice; heed. 

  • A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. 

  • Reputation; distinction. 

  • A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. 

  • A short informal letter; a billet. 

  • A piece of paper money; a banknote. 

  • A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. 

  • A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment 

  • A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes. 

  • A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. 

  • 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. 

  • A diplomatic missive or written communication. 

  • A call or song of a bird. 

  • A critical comment. 

  • 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 key of the piano or organ. 

  • A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. 

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

  • An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse. 

verb
  • To denote; to designate. 

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

  • To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. 

  • To annotate. 

  • To set down in musical characters. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words interest and note occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )