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MENTAL NOTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental note mean? 

MENTAL NOTE (noun)
  The noun MENTAL NOTE has 1 sense:

1. special attention with intent to rememberplay

  Familiarity information: MENTAL NOTE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MENTAL NOTE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Special attention with intent to remember

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

he made a mental note to send her flowers

Hypernyms ("mental note" is a kind of...):

attention (the faculty or power of mental concentration)


 Context examples 


He did not know what "English" meant, but he made a mental note of that item of ignorance and passed on.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A red-faced man, slamming the cabin door behind him and stumping out on the deck, interrupted my reflections, though I made a mental note of the topic for use in a projected essay which I had thought of calling The Necessity for Freedom: A Plea for the Artist.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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