compare notes
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To exchange information and ideas about related experiences.
Example Sentences
- "Two minutes are allowed "Condor" at Carlisle, and those involved had no time to compare notes on the state of the nation, the management, the unions or the racing calendar."
- "Priscilla's only problem in the first trimester was fatigue. She said, "It helped to compare notes with women who had many more discomforts than I did.""
- "They cultivate rootlessness and cynicism, shout ironic encouragement from the sidelines of football fields, compare notes on the boring ineffectuality of adults, compare notes on ventures in piss-taking, indolently lay sardonic plans for the future."
- "It follows, of course, that when people from different countries with different moneys compare notes they find that their ideas are in conflict."