jottings's Usage Examples:

He left a large collection of personal jottings and memorabilia, most of which remain unpublished.

The system of Forbes was reconstructed after his death from notebook jottings, and neither Garrod nor Forbes have left any permanent mark on.

On examination our notebooks turn up the usual collection of unhelpful random jottings, too many of which go in for botany.

There are some fillers here, notebook jottings that might chiefly interest somebody like myself with a professional interest in Sinclair's work.

stitched fascicle of 16 bifolios ( 32 folios ); this also includes jottings on arithmetical and geometrical topics.

He sat behind a low desk, with a few jottings on slips of paper, or textbooks marked on the margin, before him, and delivered an extemporaneous address, opening up the subject by partial glimpses, and with many anecdotes or familiar illustrations, till a complete idea of it was presented.

Soon men began to assist memory by making notes, and pupils sought to take written jottings of what they had heard from their teachers.

Some pages contain just a few jottings with page 17 containing one line: " She'll get over it.

The next step was to actually explore the site, making quick on-the-spot jottings, which we shared afterward by reading aloud.

" What was reduced to writing does not give us a work carried out after a preconcerted plan, but rather represents a series of jottings answering to the needs of the various individual writers, and largely intended to strengthen the memory " (Schechter).

Synonyms:

note, jot,

Antonyms:

low status, ignore,