take notes

verb

take notes

verb
1

To make a record of what one hears or observes for future reference.

  • Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
Related terms
notebook, notetaking

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