modality vs note

modality

noun
  • The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes. 

  • The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory). 

  • Any of the senses (such as sight or taste) 

  • The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations. 

  • The quality of being limited by a condition. 

  • A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre. 

  • The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode. 

  • The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood 

  • The fact of being modal. 

  • A method of diagnosis or therapy. 

note

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

  • 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. 

  • Observation; notice; heed. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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