nose
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
architecture
aviation
business
engineering
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
natural-sciences
nautical
pets
physical-sciences
racing
sports
transport
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: noses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
pos: noun
examples: She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
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.[…].
gloss: A snout, the nose of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: The tip of an object.
pos: noun
examples: the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
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.
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.
gloss: The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Red Rum only won by a nose.
gloss: A perfumer.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The sense of smell.
pos: noun
examples: We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master.
gloss: Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
gloss: The skill in recognising bouquet.
pos: noun
examples: It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
gloss: Skill at finding information.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: A successful tabloid reporter has a nose for gossip.
I got to know one or two other girls who wrote, and they told me that my sort of stuff would be all right when I got into the peerage or became a leading lady, but if I wanted to live meanwhile it was absolutely necessary to cultivate a "news-nose".
gloss: The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop
pos: noun
tags: also
idiomatic
examples: They had a nose around the abandoned property.
gloss: A downward projection from a cornice.
pos: noun
gloss: An informer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]
gloss: To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The ship nosed through the minefield.
Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.
gloss: To snoop.
pos: verb
tags: also
ambitransitive
idiomatic
intransitive
examples: She was nosing around other people’s business.
gloss: To detect by smell or as if by smell.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.
Dogs hurried out to nose Edmund[.]
Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.
gloss: To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]
gloss: To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to nose a prayer
It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.
gloss: To furnish with a nose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to nose a stair tread
gloss: To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The plane is nosing up!
We have to get it nosing down.
Synonyms: nose
beak
beezer
boko
conk
honker
hooter
neb
pecker
proboscis
schnozz
schnozzle
schnozzola
schnoz
smeller
sneck
sniffer
snitch
snoot
snotbox
snout
trunk
Related words: rhino-
brownnose
cut off one's nose to spite one's face
get up someone's nose
hard-nosed
in front of one's nose
I've got your nose
keep one's nose clean
keep one's pecker up
look down one's nose
the nose knows
nose out of joint
nose to the grindstone
no skin off one's nose
on the nose
pay through the nose
plain as the nose on one's face
poke one's nose into
powder one's nose
see past the end of one's nose
stick one's nose in
stick one's nose into
toffee-nosed
under one's nose
win by a nose
Derived words: 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
blue-nosed
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
Jolly Nose
keep one's nose clean
largenose
lead around by the nose
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 ape
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
nose goes
nosegrind
nose grind
noseguard
nose guard
nose hair
nosehole
nose in the air
nose-ish
nose-job
nose job
nose key
nose kiss
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 paint
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 wheelie
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
nose about
nose around
brown-nose
nosey
nose out
nose over
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