Note and Telling

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Note noun - A usually brief written reminder.

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Telling and note are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telling" instead a noun "Note".

Nearby Words: noted, notation, noting, Noteholder

Telling noun - Informing by words.

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Note and telling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Note" instead a noun "Telling".

Nearby Words: tell, teller, telly

When she was a teen, Lorelai went into labor and went to the hospital by herself, leaving a note for her parents instead of telling them where she was.

Source: Series / Gilmore Girls
Instead of laces, her shoe came with a note from Hiram telling her he'd keep them.

Source: Every Man Has His Price
In a Calvin and Hobbes strip, Susie asks Calvin to pass a note to a classmate, telling him not to read it because it's a secret note.

Source: The Tape Knew You Would Say That

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