Term: surface noise: noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record
Candidate hypernym: background noise: extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal → 1
Candidate hypernym: kaffir boom: small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles → 0
Candidate hypernym: wall: a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) → 0
Candidate hypernym: firewall: (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust → 0
Candidate hypernym: smear: a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope → 0
Candidate hypernym: stipulation: (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record → 0
Candidate hypernym: bethel: a house of worship (especially one for sailors) → 0
Candidate hypernym: ophiodon: a genus of Ophiodontidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: space rocket: a rocket powerful enough to travel into outer space → 0
Candidate hypernym: bitter betch: European perennial toxic vetch → 0
Candidate hypernym: field-effect transistor: a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field → 0