Notebook

Quick meaning: Notebook is a noun meaning A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.

Meaning

A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.

More Meanings

1. (computing) Ellipsis of notebook computer (“laptop computer”).
2. (computing, sometimes attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: notepad, rough book, writing pad, logbook, journal

Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.

For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth.

Word Forms

• notebooks
• note book

Synonyms for notebook

Depending on context, synonyms include by-book, notepad, logbook, journal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scrapbook, booklet, binder, book, notepad, journal.

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