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A scrap of memory you hand the future before your brain deletes it
means A short written record or message meant to capture information, remind, or communicate something briefly; also a single musical tone or a remark of observation.
from From Latin 'nota,' meaning a mark, sign, or token — the kind of scratch you'd make to flag something worth remembering. It passed through Old French 'note' into English, carrying its family of relatives along: 'notable' (worth marking), 'notice' (the marking), and 'notation' (the act of it). The musical sense and the written-reminder sense both grow from that same root idea — a mark that stands in for a thing, so the thing isn't lost.
- musical pitch
- A is tuned to 440 vibrations per second
- ransom roots
- Cut-out letters became cinema's favorite anonymous handwriting
- sticky origin
- Post-its came from a failed superglue experiment
- diplomatic weapon
- Nations declare positions through formal written notes
- currency word
- Banknotes were once literal promises to pay