jotting

noun

jot·​ting ˈjä-tiŋ How to pronounce jotting (audio)
: a brief note : memorandum

Examples of jotting in a Sentence

the judges reviewed their jottings one last time before selecting the pinot noir as the best wine of the tasting overall
Recent Examples on the Web But without leading characters, story or songs that are elevated, this love story remains not only leaden but as slight as jottings in journal. Frank Rizzo, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024 Some students sit on the edge of their seats, jotting notes on their laptops or in notebooks. C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024 Batalha’s whiteboard is filled with jottings, notes for a proposal to observe several exoplanets, including twin Neptunelike planets orbiting a star more than 160 light years away from our sun. Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024 The memoir aims for jottings that, like their subjects, are thin, breakable, and already sliding off the page. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024 Then, teams of handlers made laps with their charges in tow as the engineers raced after them, checking their calculations and jotting notes. Winnie Hu Emma Rose Milligan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023 In his jottings are the seeds of what would come—all the greatness and the failings of Facebook. Steven Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2020 The Harriot papers are a mishmash of calculations, marginal jottings, correspondence and even a shopping list (galls for ink, shoestrings, a ribbon for his dagger). Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 21 June 2019 The angels are in the details that fill the pages of his climbing journal, which might look, to a casual observer, like the dense jottings of a patient in a psychiatric hospital. Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1814, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of jotting was in 1814

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“Jotting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jotting. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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