noise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense. Potentially a reduced form of Old French enoiier (“to bother, to disturb”), from Latin inodio (“to make repulsive”) - which would make it a doublet of English annoy (“to bother, to irritate”) and English ennui (“boredom, jadedness, depression”). Compare Piedmontese nojé (“to bother, to annoy”), though this fails to explain the final /z/.
Inflected forms:
form: noises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: noising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: noised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: noised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all the noise.
The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived.
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
gloss: Any sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The sudden noise made everyone jump.
She crept up behind him not making a noise.
gloss: Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: signal-to-noise ratio
On the technical side, the scanning and OCR of texts, in combination with the graphic design of high school text books, introduced a certain level of noise into the corpus which in turn led to a higher tagging error rate than usual and may affect count precision.
gloss: Variation or deviation generated by random fluctuations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: In order to provide coherence and confidence, the leader must dramatically turn down the noise level in the organization, eliminate any unnecessary distractions that inevitably get in the way of execution, and banish the fear of uncertainty.
gloss: The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Rumour or complaint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The problems with the new computer system are causing a lot of noise at Head Office.
1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
What noise have we had for fome Years about Transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!
He [Socrates] lived in Athens during the great plague, which has made so much noise through all ages.
gloss: Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Despite encouraging noises made by politicians from time to time, the two sides there have never been further from an agreement.
gloss: Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The king has his noise of gypsies.
That we on earth, with undiscording voice, / May rightly answer that melodious noise
gloss: A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To make a noise; to sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Those terrours, which thou speak'st of, did me none ;
I never fear'd they could, though noising loud
And threatening nigh
gloss: To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When this was noysed aboute, the multitude cam togedder and were astonyed, because that every man herde them speake in his awne tongue.
This man then meeting with Chriſtian, and having ſome inckling of him, for Chriſtians ſetting forth from the City of Deſtruction was much noiſed abroad, not only in the Town, where he dwelt, but alſo it began to be the Town-talk in ſome other places.
Synonyms: cacophony
clamour
clash
commotion
din
disquiet
exclamation
hullabaloo
outcry
racket
tintamarre
tumult
uproar
vociferation
Antonyms: calm
quiet
silence
Derived words: 1/f noise
active noise cancellation
active noise control
antinoise
anti-noise
azure noise
background noise
big noise
bistable noise
black noise
blue noise
Brownian noise
Brown noise
burst noise
cat activation noise
comfort noise
counternoise
denoise
empty barrels make the most noise
empty cans make the most noise
empty vessels make the most noise
flicker noise
food noise
fuck that noise
gray noise
grey noise
harsh noise
harsh noise wall
impulse noise
Japanoise
Johnson noise
Johnson-Nyquist noise
line noise
low-noise block downconverter
make a noise in the world
make noise
make some noise
noise barrier
noise-cancel
noise cancellation
noisecore
noisefest
noise footprint
noise footprintx
noise-free
noiseful
noise gate
noiseless
noiselessly
noiselessness
noiselet
noiselike
noisemaker
noisemaking
noisemonger
noisenik
noise pollution
noise pop
noise power
noiseproof
noise reduction
noise rock
noisescape
noise-shy
noises off
noise stick
noise trader
noise word
noisy
noisily
Nyquist noise
outnoise
overnoise
Perlin noise
pink noise
Poisson noise
popcorn noise
power noise
purple noise
random telegraph noise
red noise
self-noise
shot noise
signal-noise ratio
signal-to-noise
surface noise
thermal noise
tonal noise
velvet noise
violet noise
white noise
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