Word Finder - noise

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Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.

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

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Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.

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Unwanted part of a signal.

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(by extension) Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.

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

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Rumour or complaint.

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

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Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.

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A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.

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To make a noise; to sound.

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

What was all the noise last night?

Suddenly a great noise was heard outside.

The noise from the machine that circulated the oxygen frightened her.

There was a noise in the background.

It was the noise from the falling chair that woke me up.

Let's go make some noise.

What are you making such a noise about over there?

It was a few minutes before she realized the pounding noise was someone knocking at the door.

It was then they heard the first noise.

The creaky bed protested as she sat, and she tried hard not to make more noise and wake Toby.

The noise at the locked front door I heard when Edith was in my room wasn't Franny going out for a smoke as I'd assumed at the time.

It is the noise of my contemporaries.

He almost nodded off, but a noise outside alerted him.

Suddenly he thought he heard a strange noise through the door.

Maybe I'll get a room in a high rise hotel, away from street noise.

As if in celebration, the fireworks ended in a fury of light and muffled noise.

He'd been in the middle of deciding which of his collection of knives he was going to use to kill the goddess once and for all when the noise started.

Careful not to let the heels of his boots make noise in the hallway, he headed for the living room.

We can watch as long as we stay back a ways and don't make noise.

She waited breathlessly, straining to hear the least noise.

The noise from the surface was now quite deafening.

A minor noise irritation becomes a real effect on quality of life.

The noise would bounce off the glass lampshades wherever he was.

To protect nearby residents from any undue disturbance, proposals to install wind turbines are required to meet strict noise standards.

Dead bodies don't make much noise.

Near the mouth, where the lake narrows to a strait, are the rapids which Ossian called the Falls of Lora, the ebbing and flowing tides, as they rush over the rocky bar, creating a roaring noise audible at a considerable distance.

The upper fall is known as the Rumbling Bridge from the fact that the stream pours with a rumbling noise through a deep narrow gorge in which a huge fallen rock has become wedged, forming a rude bridge or arch.

J.K.A. Everard and C.D. Broomfield " Transposed flicker noise suppression in microwave oscillators using feedforward amplifiers.

The accompanying crowds and noise disturbs the serenity of the park.

These estimators function on the principle that the noise subspace eigenvectors should be orthogonal to the signal vectors.

The use of a variance component allows the effects of noise in bias subtraction to be properly monitored.

Like our own Mary Chain, the guitars create a symphony of noise which is tempered by wonderfully warm melodic moments.

About eight o'clock in the evening, a noise is heard, dis- tinct even above the raging of the hurricane.

We aim to produce single electron transistors for high speed, low noise applications.

The roasted turkey is making more noise than your guests.

The noise was so distracting that I missed my motorway turnoff, got lost and had to endure the whining for an extra hour!

The atmosphere was just as intense, the noise just as deafening and the action on the pitch equally uncompromising.

The barge docked with a rusty clanging noise that caused an undulation in the tarpaulin covering the deck.

They were just rising from the table when they heard a great noise in the street.

I was pleased with anything that made a noise and liked to feel the cat purr and the dog bark.

A tin ingot is distinctly crystalline; hence the characteristic crackling noise, or "cry" of tin, which a bar of tin gives out when being bent.

The noise of the ship's guns, as the company sails off, wakes the poet to the real pleasures of a May morning.

Receive antennas may differ in their noise rejection properties.

Strabo describes a river which he terms Catarractes as a large stream falling with a great noise over a lofty cliff.

The largest known species is the drummer of the West Indies (Blabera gigantea), so called from the tapping noise it makes on wood, sufficient, when joined in by several individuals, as usually happens, to break the slumbers of a household.

Sometimes, especially at early dawn, there is a musical noise in the desert, like the sound of distant drums, which is caused by the eddying of grains of sand in the heated atmosphere, on the crests of the medanos.

It was probably the noise of these sermons that caused the friar's temporary removal from Florence at the instance of Piero de' Medici.

By the common law of England freedom from noise is essential to the full enjoyment of a dwelling house, and acts which affect that enjoyment may be actionable as nuisances.

The noise must be exceptional and unreasonable.

In disposition they are quiet and gentle, and do not show much intelligence; they are also less noisy than the true lemurs, only when alarmed or angered making a noise which has been compared to the clucking of a fowl.