jot (down)

verb

Definition of jot (down)next
as in to record
to make a written note of I'll jot down the message

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jot (down)
  1. record
  2. log
  3. write down
  4. report
  5. set down
  6. transcribe
  7. note
Verb
  • In April, Wicked star Cynthia Erivo halted her performance of Dracula at the Noël Coward Theatre after spotting an audience member recording the show.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Musically, the album showed the band evolving beyond the Southern-rockisms of Opera, drawing upon contemporary influences like Centromatic and Steve Earle as well as heroes who recorded in their hometown.
    — Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of record
Verb
  • Every consequential action should be logged and reconstructable.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Downtown Los Angeles has logged four straight October days at 100 degrees or higher, while cities across the region have shattered daily heat records.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of log
Verb
  • Other inventive scenes include Duong’s father reading from his memoir in Vietnamese, as his relatives do not speak or read English, and so will not have heard his story as written down.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026
  • For another, a cookbook of family recipes nobody had written down.
    — Jamie Farmer, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of write down
Verb
  • Crash reported on eastbound I-670 There is a crash on I-670 between Broadway Boulevard/Central Street/Exit 2R-2South and I-70 (East)/US-40/US-71/Exit 2M-2North.
    — Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, for example, spends his evenings watching YouTube on his television, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of report
Verb
  • The column began with Google’s Sundar Pichai, who set down a fluid stroke, embellished with two horizontal lines, two dots and a dash.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The crew member eventually persuaded Saudi authorities to allow the plane to set down at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Airport in the city of Tabuk.
    — Sam Metz, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of set down
Verb
  • The conversations are already recorded and transcribed, so the more durable approach is to read the record instead of relying on memory.
    — Snehal Nimje, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Liberated from the genome, the sequence in the RNA copy is then reverse-transcribed into DNA at a different location.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of transcribe
Verb
  • That’s a playwright’s wrestling match that, as my colleague Sara Holdren noted recently, doesn’t need an audience.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Donald noted that the Rams had pass-rushing success in the last few years without him or Garrett.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of note
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“Jot (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jot%20%28down%29. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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