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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To put into notation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology and botany, marked with spots or lines; variegated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored.
  • verb To add notes to; to annotate
  • verb To create notation (i.e. music); to record/put down in the form of notation

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put into notation, as of music or choreography

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from notation.]

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