"take notes" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes notes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking notes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took notes",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken notes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> notes"
      },
      "expansion": "take notes (third-person singular simple present takes notes, present participle taking notes, simple past took notes, past participle taken notes)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409",
          "text": "Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a record of what one hears or observes for future reference."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_notes-en-verb-GO5VoBwq",
      "links": [
        [
          "record",
          "record"
        ],
        [
          "hear",
          "hear"
        ],
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ],
        [
          "reference",
          "reference"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "notebook"
        },
        {
          "word": "notetaking"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
          "word": "做筆記"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zuò bǐjì",
          "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
          "word": "做笔记"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
          "word": "noti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
          "word": "tehdä muistiinpanoja"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
          "word": "jegyzetel"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take notes"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes notes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking notes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took notes",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken notes",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> notes"
      },
      "expansion": "take notes (third-person singular simple present takes notes, present participle taking notes, simple past took notes, past participle taken notes)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "notebook"
    },
    {
      "word": "notetaking"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409",
          "text": "Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a record of what one hears or observes for future reference."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "record",
          "record"
        ],
        [
          "hear",
          "hear"
        ],
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ],
        [
          "reference",
          "reference"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
      "word": "做筆記"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zuò bǐjì",
      "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
      "word": "做笔记"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
      "word": "noti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
      "word": "tehdä muistiinpanoja"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "make a record of what one hears or observes",
      "word": "jegyzetel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take notes"
}