Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1. 
 put into notation, as of music or choreography; 
- Example: "Nowadays, you can notate an entire ballet in the old days, the steps had to be memorized"; 
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Notate \No"tate\, a. [L. notatus marked, p. p. of notare to
   mark. See 5th Note.] (Bot.)
   Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored.
   --Henslow.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
notate
    v 1: put into notation, as of music or choreography; "Nowadays,
         you can notate an entire ballet; in the old days, the steps
         had to be memorized"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "notate":
   catch a likeness, character, characterize, chart, delineate,
   depict, diagram, draw, hit off, limn, map, paint, picture,
   picturize, portray, print, register, render, represent, rub,
   schematize, symbolize, take a rubbing, trace, trace out,
   trace over, write