To top. English Business. Sign up for free and get access to exclusive content:. Free word lists and quizzes from Cambridge. Tools to create your own word lists and quizzes. Word lists shared by our community of dictionary fans. Sign up now or Log in. Definitions Clear explanations of natural written and spoken English. Abbreviation for Nota Bene "Note Well".
NB: Trespassers will be shot on sight. Abbreviation of Niu Bi, a Chinese slang for saying if something is dope. Its literal meaning is cow niu pussy bi. This practice is not necessary in English;. The abbreviation n. Used to indicate a footnote at the end of a letter. Generally abbreviated PS or similar ps, p. The two are the antithesis of each other. The practical answer is, almost no native English speakers use "N.
I don't recall ever hearing of this abbreviation before reading this post. Originally it referred to an additional comment that someone added to a letter after signing it, and which he therefore wrote below, i. In the days before word processing, when you wrote a letter directly on paper barbaric idea, I know , if you completed a letter and signed it, and then something else occurred to you that you wanted to say, you wrote "P.
There was no way to add additional text above the signature and there was no easy way to cleanly erase a signature, so the only alternative would be to tear up the letter and start over. The term has come to mean an afterthought or tangential comment. Today it's common to write "P. Like people will write emails, make their main point, and then write "P.
For example, "We have scheduled a meeting for Monday to discuss the Miller account. Please be prepared to present your findings on the cost benefit analysis. Don't forget we have a staff meeting next Thursday. It is an unrelated comment. Perhaps there is some particular profession or academic area where "N. I'm not familiar with it. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Nowadays, with a few exceptions such as A. And so our advice regarding most Latin abbreviations including e. If you must use them say in footnotes , bibliographies , and technical lists , consider these guidelines on how to tell them apart and use them correctly. Nota bene is used, in the modern world at least, most frequently in legal writing to draw attention to something specific.
It also shows up in academia from time to time, although the simpler, English indicator "note" has largely replaced nota bene or n. In more recent writing, "n. Medieval texts have several different nota bene marks: "DM" which stands for dignum memoria, another Latin phrase that translates as "worth remembering" , various anagrams of the word "nota," or, most amusingly, tiny drawings of a hand formally called a "manicule" or "index" pointing at the section that needs specific attention.
Outside of legal and technical writing, n. You might still come across formal writing or directions that use it:.
In general, however, when modern writers want their readers to pay close attention to something or not miss an important piece of information, they will use a different phrase.
Popular substitutes include "please note" or "important," which still place emphasis on the necessarily information without use of a semi-archaic Latin abbreviation.
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