What does noise mean?

Definitions for noise
nɔɪznoise

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. noisenoun

    sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

    "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"

  2. noise, dissonance, racketnoun

    the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

    "modern music is just noise to me"

  3. noise, interference, disturbancenoun

    electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

  4. noisenoun

    a loud outcry of protest or complaint

    "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "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. noisenoun

    incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks

    "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"

  6. randomness, haphazardness, stochasticity, noiseverb

    the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

  7. make noise, resound, noiseverb

    emit a noise

Wiktionary

  1. noisenoun

    Various sounds, usually unwanted.

    He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all the noise.

  2. noisenoun

    Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations

  3. noisenoun

    Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio)

  4. noisenoun

    The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population

  5. noisenoun

    rumour or complaint

    The problems with the new computer system are causing a lot of noise at Head Office.

  6. noiseverb

    To make noise.

  7. noiseverb

    To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. NOISEnoun

    Etymology: noise, French.

    Noises, as of waters falling down, sounded about them, and sad visions appeared unto them. Wisd. xvii. 4.

    Whether it were a whistling sound, or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, these things made them swoon. Wisd. xvii. 18.

    Great motions in nature pass without sound or noise. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion, without noise to us perceived; though in some dreams they have been said to make an excellent musick. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Fear
    Shakes your hearts, while thro’ the isle they hear
    A lasting noise, as horrid and as loud
    As thunder makes, before it breaks the cloud. Edmund Waller.

    What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases, and transfusion of blood. Thomas Baker, on Learning.

    Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague, which has made so much noise through all ages, and never caught the least infection. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 195.

  2. To Noiseverb

    To spread by rumour, or report.

    All these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country. Luke i. 65.

    I shall not need to relate the affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain, after the voice of our prince’s being there had been quickly noised. Henry Wotton.

    They might buz and whisper it one to another; and tacitly withdrawing from the presence of the apostle, they then lift up their voices and noised it about the city. Richard Bentley.

  3. To Noiseverb

    To sound loud.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Harm
    Those terrors, which thou speak’st of, did me none;
    Tho’ noising loud and threatning nigh. John Milton, P. Reg.

Wikipedia

  1. Noise

    Noise is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in March 2016 as the first single from his 2016 album Cosmic Hallelujah. Chesney wrote this song with Ross Copperman, Shane McAnally, and Jon Nite.

ChatGPT

  1. noise

    Noise is an unwanted or unpleasant sound that is typically characterized by its disruptive, chaotic, or unpredictable nature. It refers to any sound that interferes with the normal communication or enjoyment of a desired sound or environment. Noise can vary in intensity, frequency, duration, and source, and its effects can range from annoyance or discomfort to potential health hazards or impairment of cognitive function.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Noisenoun

    sound of any kind

  2. Noisenoun

    especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din

  3. Noisenoun

    loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report

  4. Noisenoun

    music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band

  5. Noiseverb

    to sound; to make a noise

  6. Noiseverb

    to spread by rumor or report

  7. Noiseverb

    to disturb with noise

Wikidata

  1. Noise

    In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In physics and analog electronics, noise is a mostly unwanted random addition to a signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise. Signal noise is heard as acoustic noise if the signal is converted into sound; it manifests as "snow" on a television or video image. High noise levels can block, distort, change or interfere with the meaning of a message in human, animal and electronic communication. In signal processing or computing noise can be considered random unwanted data without meaning; that is, data that is not being used to transmit a signal, but is simply produced as an unwanted by-product of other activities. "Signal-to-noise ratio" is sometimes used to refer to the ratio of useful to irrelevant information in an exchange. In biology, many different forms of cellular noise exist, where a measurement displays substantial variance around its mean: for example, transcriptional noise describes the variability in gene activity between cells in a population. In many cases, the special case of thermal noise arises, which sets a fundamental lower limit to what can be measured or signaled and is related to basic physical processes described by thermodynamics, some of which are expressible by simple formulae.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Noise

    noiz, n. sound of any kind: any over-loud or excessive sound, din: frequent or public talk: (Shak.) report: a musical band.—v.t. to spread by rumour.—v.i. to sound loud.—adjs. Noise′ful, noisy; Noise′less, without noise: silent.—adv. Noise′lessly.—n. Noise′lessness.—Make a noise in the world, to attract great notoriety. [Fr. noise, quarrel; prob. from L. nausea, disgust; but possibly from L. noxa, hurt—nocēre, to hurt.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Noise

    Any sound which is unwanted or interferes with HEARING other sounds.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'noise' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2339

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'noise' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1596

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'noise' in Nouns Frequency: #839

Anagrams for noise »

  1. eosin

  2. NESOI

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of noise in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of noise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of noise in a Sentence

  1. Ron DeSantis:

    I think what you learn is all of that is just noise, and really what matters is are you leading, are you getting in front of issues, are you delivering results for people, and are you standing up for folks, at the end of the day I would just tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night.

  2. Todd Moores:

    I could tell by looking at it. You can see the heart beating right there, it even makes a noise because there's fluid around it, so it makes a sloshing noise.

  3. Ben Crump:

    The truth has finally cut through the noise, i have full faith that this truth will prevail to punish this coldblooded killer who angrily created the altercation that led to Markeis' needless death.

  4. Jerry Coleman:

    That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

  5. Nicholas Snowdon:

    Nickel has a strong fundamental story and I think the view of investors was that after a near $2,000 pull-back, it was approaching territory that, irrespective of that macro noise, was an attractive entry point, this was in particular for the Chinese investor base, where many are hard-core nickel bulls.

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