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Noise   /nɔɪz/   Listen
Noise

noun
1.
Sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).  "They heard indistinct noises of people talking" , "During the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
2.
The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.  Synonyms: dissonance, racket.
3.
Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication.  Synonyms: disturbance, interference.
4.
A loud outcry of protest or complaint.  "Whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"
5.
Incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks.
6.
The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan.  Synonyms: haphazardness, randomness, stochasticity.
verb
(past & past part. noised; pres. part. noising)
1.
Emit a noise.  Synonyms: make noise, resound.



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"Noise" Quotes from Famous Books



... imagination). He then, O king, (mentally) performed his ablutions. He conceived the water (he had imagined) to be clarified butter. He allotted to the celestials their respective shares (of those sacrificial offerings). Having next (mentally) drunk Soma, he began to utter a loud noise. Those sounds, O king, first uttered by the sacrificing Rishi, penetrated into heaven, and Trita completed that sacrifice after the manner laid down by utterers of Brahma. During the progress of that sacrifice of the high-souled Trita, the whole region of the celestials became agitated. ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown
... liues: If Lewis, by your assistance win the day. Commend me to one Hubert, with your King; The loue of him, and this respect besides (For that my Grandsire was an Englishman) Awakes my Conscience to confesse all this. In lieu whereof, I pray you beare me hence From forth the noise and rumour of the Field; Where I may thinke the remnant of my thoughts In peace: and part this bodie and my soule With contemplation, and ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... hideous feature of the system. {86} The fire-bell startles at night; but if it rings not the town may be burned; and wise men seldom vote him an incendiary who pulls the rope, and who could not give the alarm and avert the calamity unless he made a noise. The prophet's style was quaint and picturesque when he compared the great king to a sheep-stealer; but the object was not to insult the king, it was to make him think, to rouse him; to let him see ...
— The Tribune of Nova Scotia - A Chronicle of Joseph Howe • W. L. (William Lawson) Grant
... busy preparing his feast he was annoyed by a strange sound among the tree tops that rubbed together when the wind blew. Nanahboozhoo was very quick-tempered, and as the noise continued he determined to stop it. So he left his feast on the ground and climbed away up one of those trees to the spot where the other pressed against it. He was endeavoring to pull the two great trees apart when one ...
— Algonquin Indian Tales • Egerton R. Young
... my good man? What things people will imagine! And to do so would not be acting in form as you say, you don't know the business, my dear fellow.... And there's no escaping form, as you see," Porfiry muttered, listening at the door through which a noise could be heard. ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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