notated

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Notated is the past tense of notate, meaning to write something down in a specialized system of symbols or marks.

The word appears most often in music: The composer notated the melody for piano.

It also applies to dance choreography, mathematical expressions, or any field using formal notation systems.

sensename

transcribed

Converted to text

documented · recorded · charted · tabulated · inscribed · penned · drafted · outlined · sketched · copied

musical

scored

Earned points in competition

harmonized · transposed · sight-read · tablature · staff · clef · tempo · dynamics · articulation · phrasing

symbolic

encoded

Converted to cipher

formalized · schematized · diagrammed · graphed · mapped · formulaic · algebraic · mathematical · scientific · shorthand

annotated

footnoted

Given explanatory citations

cited · cross-referenced · marginalia · editorial · scholarly · marked up · indexed · highlighted · flagged · tagged

Opposites
documentation method

notatedunwritten

Not set down formally

unscored · untranscribed · oral · unrecorded · undocumented

compositional approach

notatedimprovised

Created without prior planning

extemporized · ad-libbed · unscripted · improvisatory · spontaneous

Phrases
Family

notation, connotation, annotation, annotate, denotation, annotating, annotated, annotator, annotations

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Rated G