A small sheet of paper from a padded stack. Each sheet of the pad has a strip of weak easy-release non-permanent adhesive on the reverse for temporary attachment to a document or to other materials.

(UK) A note from a doctor certifying the patient is ill, and therefore unable to go to work, school etc. / (UK, idiomatic) Someone who dodges work because of (feigned) illness.

(idiomatic) Having only one opinion, outlook, tone, etc., especially as expressed repetitively; without variety or range.

(music, voice) A note extremely high in the register, but not falsetto.

In diplomacy, an unsigned memorandum calling attention to a neglected, though perhaps not urgent, matter.

The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote, the tonic.

A notation used in music that increases the duration of the basic note by half of its original value.

(UK) A note issued by a doctor, indicating whether the patient is fit to work and under what conditions.

(diplomacy) A formal piece of diplomatic correspondence signed by the representatives of several governments addressed to one or more other governments.

(music) The highest and usually climactic note of a song or composition, especially one that is difficult to reach. / (figuratively) A climax or best achievement.