nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nōz
ipa: [nəʊ̯z]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [nəwz]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [noːz]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [noʊ̯z]
ipa: [nəʊ̯z]
enpr: nōz
ipa: [noʊ̯z]
homophone: knows
homophone: noes
homophone: nos
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: noses
Etymology: From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).
Senses: examples: text: She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
glosses: A snout, the nose of an animal.
examples: text: the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
text: We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:
glosses: The tip of an object.
glosses: The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
examples: text: Red Rum only won by a nose.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
examples: text: Jacques Polge, Chanel's top “nose” since 1978, made the decision when developers started trying to buy up land around Grasse, where the Muls cultivate three hectares of the precious plant.
ref: 2014 March 4, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: A perfumer.
examples: text: We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master.
ref: c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy:
glosses: The sense of smell.
glosses: Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
examples: text: It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
glosses: The skill in recognising bouquet.
examples: text: A successful reporter has a nose for news.
glosses: Skill at finding information.
examples: text: They had a nose around the abandoned property.
glosses: The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop
raw_tags: followed by around or about
topics: architecture
synonyms: drip
glosses: A downward projection from a cornice.
examples: text: […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]
ref: 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
synonyms: nark
glosses: An informer.
Synonyms: sense: the bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle
word: tab
word: nose
word: beak
word: beezer
word: boko
word: conk
word: honker
word: hooter
word: neb
word: pecker
word: proboscis
word: schnozz
word: schnozzle
word: schnozzola
word: schnoz
word: smeller
word: sneck
word: sniffer
word: snitch
word: snoot
word: snotbox
word: snout
word: trunk
Hyponyms: word: aquiline nose
word: button nose
word: hooknose
word: pug nose
word: Roman nose
word: snub nose
Meronyms: word: bridge
word: columella
word: greater alar cartilage
word: naris
word: nasal bone
word: nasal cavity
word: nasal septum
word: nose bridge
word: nosewing
word: nostril
word: septum
Derived terms: aquiline nose
Australasian pig-nose turtle
banana-nose
banana nose
bignose
bishop's nose
blacknose
bloodied nose
blood nose
bloody nose
blow one's nose
bluenose
bluntnose
bottlenose
bottle-nose
bottle-nose dolphin
brownnose
bullet-nose
bullnose
bull's nose
button nose
camel's nose
cherry nose
clown nose
coke nose
conenose
copper nose
cownose
cut off one's nose to spite one's face
dicknose
dog-nose
dog's nose
Dudley nose
ear, nose and throat
empty nose syndrome
e-nose
flatnose
follow one's nose
fucknose
get up someone's nose
give someone a bloody nose
hard-nose
hard nose
have someone's nose wide open
hawknose
hawk-nose
hawk nose
hognose
hold one's nose
hold one's nose up
hooknose
in front of one's nose
I've got your nose
Jewish nose
Jew nose
Jew's nose
keep one's nose clean
largenose
lead by the nose
longnose
long-nose
look beyond the end of one's nose
look beyond the tip of one's nose
look down one's nose
look past the end of one's nose
look past the tip of one's nose
neb-nose
needlenose
needle-nose gar
nigger nose
nollie
nose about
nose ape
nose around
nose art
nosebag
nose-bag
nose bag
noseband
nosebar
nosebeard
nose beer
nose bit
nosebleeder
nosebleeding
nosebleed
nose bleed
nose blindness
nose-blind
nose blind
noseblood
nose-bonk
nose bonk
nose bridge
noseburn
nose butter
nosebutter
nose-candy
nose candy
nose cap
noseclip
nose cone
nose count
nosed
nose-dead
nose-deaf
nose deaf
nosedive
nose-dive
nose-ender
nose-first
nose flute
noseful
nosegay
nosegear
nose gear
nose glasses
nosegrind
nose grind
noseguard
nose guard
nosehole
nose in the air
nose-ish
nose-job
nose job
nose key
noseleaf
nose leather
nose-led
noseless
noselift
noselike
nose line
nosely
nose monkey
noseness
nose-nipper
nose of wax
nose out of joint
nose pad
nose peg
nose-pick
nose-picker
nose-picking
nosepiece
nose piece
nose piercing
nosepin
noseplug
nose poke
nose powder
noseprint
nose putty
noser
noseride
nose-ringed
nosering
nose ring
noseshot
nose-shot
noseslide
nose slide
nosesmart
nose strip
nose stud
nose-suspended
nose tackle
nose test
nose-to-nose
nose to tail
nose to the grindstone
nose trimmer
noseward
nosewards
noseweight
nosewheel
nose whistle
nosewing
nosewise
nosewitness
noseworthy
nosie
no skin off one's nose
nostril
nosy
nouse
nozzle
nussy
on the nose
parson's nose
pay through the nose
pick one's nose
pig-nose turtle
pin a rose on your nose
pinch-nose glasses
plain as the nose on one's face
poke one's nose into
pope's nose
powder one's nose
prodnose
pug nose
Red Nose Day
red-nose tetra
ring in one's nose
Roman nose
rub someone's nose in
rummy nose
rummy-nose tetra
runny nose
saddlenose
saddle nose
beyond the end of one's nose
beyond the tip of one's nose
past the end of one's nose
past the tip of one's nose
shortnose
shovelnose
ski-jump nose
ski jump nose
ski-nose
ski nose
ski-ramp nose
ski ramp nose
ski-slope nose
ski slope nose
snotnose
snot-nose
snub-nose
snub nose
socked on the nose
softnose
soft-nose
soft nose
starnose
stick one's nose in
stick one's nose into
stumpnose
sultan's nose
talk through one's nose
the nose knows
thrust one's nose in
thumb one's nose
toffee-nose
tubenose
turn one's nose up
turn up one's nose
undernose
under one's nose
under one's very nose
under someone's nose
up your nose with a rubber hose
whipnose
whitenose
white nose syndrome
win by a nose
wipe someone's nose
Related terms: word: rhino-
word: brownnose
word: cut off one's nose to spite one's face
word: get up someone's nose
word: hard-nosed
word: in front of one's nose
word: I've got your nose
word: keep one's nose clean
word: keep one's pecker up
word: look down one's nose
word: the nose knows
word: nose out of joint
word: nose to the grindstone
word: no skin off one's nose
word: on the nose
word: pay through the nose
word: plain as the nose on one's face
word: poke one's nose into
word: powder one's nose
word: see past the end of one's nose
word: stick one's nose in
word: stick one's nose into
word: toffee-nosed
word: under one's nose
word: win by a nose