jottings
short, hand-written notes
TRANSLATION
jottings = die Notizen jottings = kurze, stichwortartige schriftliche Aufzeichnung --- GOOGLE INDEX jottings: approximately 500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Creativity started with the notebooks’ sketches and JOTTINGS, and only later resulted in a pure, powerful idea.
(Time magazine)
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He filled his notebooks but did not have to convert his JOTTINGS into an article under a tight deadline.
(New York Times)
(Time magazine)
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He filled his notebooks but did not have to convert his JOTTINGS into an article under a tight deadline.
(New York Times)
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jottings
noun
- quickly written short notes
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Jottings (often used in the plural), is the noun form of the verb "jot" which means to write a small note for oneself on a piece of paper. The verb is frequently used with "down," such as "Let me jot down your telephone number so I won't forget it."
Although jottings is the noun form of the verb "to jot," the word jot is a noun in and of itself, but it has little to do with brief, hand-written notes. Jot means "the least amount, a little bit" and was borrowed from the Latin "jota," a variant spelling of the Greek "iota" or the letter "I."
An iota is the smallest (and ninth) letter in the Greek alphabet. It's used in a figurative sense to note something very small and is commonly found in the expression "one iota" or "not one iota" (I don't care one iota about football). The phrase "not one iota" was first recorded in the Bible in Matthew 18:
"For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."
The Latin jota and Greek iota eventually stem from the Hebrew "yod" (also spelled yud, jod, jodh), the 10th letter in many of the Semitic alphabets.
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SYNONYMS
memo, note, notation, notice, record, reminder, tickler
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noun
- quickly written short notes
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Jottings (often used in the plural), is the noun form of the verb "jot" which means to write a small note for oneself on a piece of paper. The verb is frequently used with "down," such as "Let me jot down your telephone number so I won't forget it."
Although jottings is the noun form of the verb "to jot," the word jot is a noun in and of itself, but it has little to do with brief, hand-written notes. Jot means "the least amount, a little bit" and was borrowed from the Latin "jota," a variant spelling of the Greek "iota" or the letter "I."
An iota is the smallest (and ninth) letter in the Greek alphabet. It's used in a figurative sense to note something very small and is commonly found in the expression "one iota" or "not one iota" (I don't care one iota about football). The phrase "not one iota" was first recorded in the Bible in Matthew 18:
"For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."
The Latin jota and Greek iota eventually stem from the Hebrew "yod" (also spelled yud, jod, jodh), the 10th letter in many of the Semitic alphabets.
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SYNONYMS
memo, note, notation, notice, record, reminder, tickler
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Someone forgot these jottings in the meeting room. Do you recognize the handwriting?"
