notebook

• note book

From note +‎ book.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊtˌbʊk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/

notebook (plural notebooks)

1. A book in which notes or memoranda are written.

   Synonyms: notepad, by-book, rough book, writing pad

   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 125, column 1:

     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.

   • 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69:

     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.

2. (computing, sometimes attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.
   • 2016, David Ming, David Glasser, Diane Hildebrandt, Attainable Region Theory, page 317:

     We have found the use of Jupyter notebooks to be a convenient way of sharing work and code in a compact and reproducible manner. Jupyter notebooks are easy to update and adapt over time compared to a static CD-ROM.

3. (computing) Ellipsis of notebook computer. A laptop.
   • 2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

     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.

• → Czech: notebook
• → Portuguese: notebook
• → Spanish: notebook

• notebook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• 碌卜

Borrowed from English notebook.

notebook (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. laptop; notebook computer (Classifier: 部 c)
2. notebook (Classifier: 本 c)

• (laptop):

• (notebook): 筆記本／笔记本 (bǐjìběn)

Borrowed from English notebook.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnou̯dbuk]

notebook m inan

1. laptop, notebook (laptop computer)

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔd.buk/, /ˈnɔw.dbuk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔdbuk, -ɔwdbuk
• Syllabification: note‧book

notebook m inan or m animal (related adjective notebookowy)

1. (computing) notebook, notebook computer (class of laptop computer that is around the size of a spiral-bound notebook with A4 or letter-sized pages)

   Hypernym: laptop

   Coordinate term: netbook

• notebook in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• notebook in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• notebook in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

notebook m (plural notebooks)

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

   Synonym: laptop

   • 2003, Info exame, volume 18, Editora Abril, page 29:

     À primeira vista, o computador da Toshiba parece um notebook comum, com teclado, tela de 12 polegadas e touch pad.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2010, Luiz Artur Ferrareto, Luciano Klöckner, E o rádio? : novos horizontes midiáticos, EDIPUCRS, →ISBN, page 130:

     Os equipamentos utilizados (notebook, mesa de som, aparelho mini system - caixa de retorno, microfones e gravadores) eram escassos e insuficientes pois muito material licitado pela Instituição ainda não havia chegado. Somente no segundo semestre de 2008 pode se contar com um computador exclusivo para as aulas de rádio, no qual foram instalados software de programas de captação e edição de áudio.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2012, Vanessa de Oliveira, Psicopatas do coração, Matrix Editora, →ISBN, page 110:

     Liguei meu notebook para ver as mensagens do dia. Aos poucos eu estava voltando a responder os e-mails de meus leitores.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Unadapted borrowing from English notebook.

• IPA^(key): /nodˈbuk/ [noð̞ˈβ̞uk]
• Rhymes: -uk

notebook m (plural notebooks)

1. notebook computer (small, portable computer)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.