How to Use notate in a Sentence

notate

verb
Definition of notatenext
  • One of David’s songs was notated on the back of my dress.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 4 July 2019
  • Williams said the payments notated in that system are not part of the city's accounting or payment process.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Unlike music, it isn’t written down (though dance steps can be notated after the fact).
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The performance artist Glenda Léon notates music and dance scores with images of raindrops.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • For something free, check out Musescore, which has tons of free sheet music for various instruments and can even be used to notate and print your own music.
    — Parker Hall, Wired, 17 June 2020
  • There were some short-answer sections, and a section about notating music, for which Kevin consulted an app from the online course provider Apex on his iPhone.
    — Stephen Smiley, Slate Magazine, 23 May 2017
  • That’s because choreography is carefully notated as part of the Broadway process and rarely is redone for tours.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The Jazz and Blues Art Box comes thoroughly notated, with separate liner notes devoted to each performer.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Williams, too, draws with pencil and paper, composing at the piano in his living room and notating every instrument in the orchestra.
    — Tim Greiving, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Average math and reading scores are notated as compared to the district average.
    — Kristi Nix, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2019
  • The story is that the overture was notated from memory by Alexander Glazunov after hearing Borodin play the work on a piano at a gathering not long before Borodin, the great composer/chemist, died.
    — Jeffrey Johnson, courant.com, 13 May 2017
  • The Athenian Treasury, also discovered in 1893, featured a truly noteworthy find: stone blocks inscribed with the words and notated music of the Hymn to Apollo.
    — National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Dances that are completely choreographed, designed, notated in many, many ways in different media.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 19 Dec. 2019
  • There is a precision and care taken by this uncredited map maker to exactly notate where the invasion was happening while also putting it in context with England and the rest of France.
    — Todd Stewart, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 June 2018
  • The shade distribution offers 20 options within five shade families — light, medium, tan, dark, and deep — with options for golden (G), pink (P), and neutral (N) undertones, and depth of shade notated by a number from one to seven.
    — Karina Hoshikawa, Allure, 15 Apr. 2019
  • Narloch will perform the 1981 masterpiece Triadic Memories, a meditative excursion that’s meticulously notated but centered on the way its chords and note patterns hang in the air and decay.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
  • Things were different in 1971 when Hans Haacke made two elaborate photo-and-text grids that notated the holdings and shell companies of two Manhattan real-estate developers.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Even more beguiling is Harris’s use of enharmonic tones — exploiting how the same pitch can be notated as, say, G-flat or F-sharp, with different harmonic implications for each.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • Yacht took its entire back-catalog - which is 82 songs and 17 years of music - and notated it in MIDI, later running it through a machine learning model called a latent space interpolation model.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Sound recording transformed the evanescent into the permanent, capturing fleeting improvisations and aural qualities of jazz that cannot be notated.
    — John Edward Hasse, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • What's more, because crypto is decentralized and uses a public ledger to notate payments, there is an opportunity for a level of transparency government assistance programs do not provide.
    — Catherine Coley, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2020

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