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noise
[ noiz ]
noun
- sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
deafening noises.
- a sound of any kind:
to hear a noise at the door.
- loud shouting, outcry, or clamor.
- a nonharmonious or discordant group of sounds.
- an electric disturbance in a communications system that interferes with or prevents reception of a signal or of information, as the buzz on a telephone or snow on a television screen.
- Informal. extraneous, irrelevant, or meaningless facts, information, statistics, etc.:
The noise in the report obscured its useful information.
- Informal. rumor or gossip, especially slander.
- Usually noises. Informal. a statement or utterance that hints at or expresses a feeling or intention, especially without action being taken: We’re hearing sympathetic noises from many countries, but haven't received any concrete offers of assistance.
There’s been some angry noise about the new curriculum. He’s making noises to the press about running for mayor.
We’re hearing sympathetic noises from many countries, but haven't received any concrete offers of assistance.
verb (used with object)
- to spread, as a report or rumor; disseminate (usually followed by about or abroad ):
A new scandal is being noised about.
verb (used without object)
- to talk much or publicly.
- to make a noise, outcry, or clamor.
noise
/ nɔɪz /
noun
- a sound, esp one that is loud or disturbing
- loud shouting; clamour; din
- any undesired electrical disturbance in a circuit, degrading the useful information in a signal See also signal-to-noise ratio
- undesired or irrelevant elements in a visual image
removing noise from pictures
- talk or interest
noise about strikes
- plural conventional comments or sounds conveying a reaction, attitude, feeling, etc
she made sympathetic noises
- make a noiseto talk a great deal or complain
- make noises about informal.to give indications of one's intentions
the government is making noises about new social security arrangements
- noises offtheatre sounds made offstage intended for the ears of the audience: used as a stage direction
verb
- tr; usually foll by abroad or about to spread (news, gossip, etc)
- rare.intr to talk loudly or at length
- rare.intr to make a din or outcry; be noisy
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Example Sentences
While Google has kept relatively quiet since then, IBM is making more noise about its business plans.
Nick Perham, at the Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK, has researched background noise and office sounds.
He was surprised they’d even heard him because of all the noise.
First, the mass deployment of language models like GPT-3 has the potential to flood the Internet, including online interactions on social media, with noise.
Bricker said the company may be paying bills without questioning them because it doesn’t “want to create any noise” by saying no at a time its own earnings are so high, Bricker said.
The sound of birds, quail, even doe, make a wild grid of noise.
The “rooty toot toot” is simply the noise the horns make, while “rummy tum tum” is the drums.
That is a lot of air pollution, noise, and yet more kicking up of dust.
For aesthetic reasons, ski resort operators try to limit the noise and infrastructure associated with producing power.
Equipped with sensors, the benches will be able to provide data on weather conditions, noise, and air quality.
The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.
Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.
The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
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