mental note
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- noun
- /ˈmɛn.təl noʊt/
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nota mental
- "T. made a mental note to see as much of the future as possible.
- make a mental note
When I got up there, I didn't make a mental note that this that part of the roof didn't exist.
- When I got up there, I didn't make a mental note that this that part of the roof didn't exist.
- Your Ras shifts in real time and your mind makes a mental note that this is important.
Examples
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If the answer is wrong, make a mental note of the correct answer and proceed to the next page.
Academic text (1997) -
I wondered how much longer it would take and made a mental note to call the phone company.
Fiction book (1991) -
Trying to make a mental note
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Maybe you could take, like, a mental note.
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Just taking a few mental notes.
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There is money in the God business, he told himself, making a mental note.
Fiction book (1999) -
I made a mental note to cash the check as soon as possible.
Fiction book (1994) -
Let's examine it on the screen for just a bit and make mental notes of the things in the picture that strike us.
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Ben Jakob made a mental note to have the file on Ryan updated.
Fiction book (1991) -
She decided to make a mental note to pick up groceries after work.
Synonyms
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1.0
Something that helps you remember things you must do or facts
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an act of deliberately remembering something' is directly derivable from 'mental' (relating to the mind) combined with 'note' (a record or act of noting) — i.e., a note made in the mind. This adj+noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase mental note comes from the image of writing a note in your mental 'notebook'. So when you make a mental note, you decide to 'remember' something without writing it down.