FromMiddle Englishnoyse,noise, fromOld Frenchnoise(“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, fromLatinnausia,nausea(“disgust, nausea”); according to others, fromLatinnoxia(“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.
noise (countable anduncountable,pluralnoises)
- (uncountable) Varioussounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all thenoise.
1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion withoutnoise to us perceived.
1959,Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, inThe Unknown Ajax:Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the leastnoise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
- Any sound.
The suddennoise made everyone jump.
She crept up behind him not making anoise.
- Sound or signal generated by randomfluctuations.
- (technology) Any part of asignal ordata that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- signal-to-noise ratio
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, inEnglish for Specific Purposes,→DOI, page11:On the technical side, the scanning and OCR of texts, in combination with the graphic design of high school text books, introduced a certain level ofnoise into the corpus which in turn led to a higher tagging error rate than usual and may affect count precision.
- (figurative, by extension) Unwantedfuss orbustle; uselessactivity.
2013, R. Douglas Williamson,Straight Talk on Leadership: Solving Canada's Business Crisis:In order to provide coherence and confidence, the leader must dramatically turn down thenoise level in the organization, eliminate any unnecessary distractions that inevitably get in the way of execution, and banish the fear of uncertainty.
- (genetics) The measured level of variation ingene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- Rumour orcomplaint.
The problems with the new computer system are causing a lot ofnoise at Head Office.
- 1709-1710,Thomas Baker,Reflections on Learning
- Whatnoise have we had for fome Years about Transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!
- October 13, 1711,Joseph Addison,The Spectator, No. 195
- He [Socrates] lived in Athens during the great plague, which has made so muchnoise through all ages.
- (informal) Speech that issuggestive of anattitude oropinion.
2012, Richard Oliver Collin, Pamela L. Martin,An Introduction to World Politics, page425:Despite encouragingnoises made by politicians from time to time, the two sides there have never been further from an agreement.
- (obsolete)Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
- (music) A genre ofrock music that usesstatic and other non-musical sounds, also influenced byart rock.
various sounds, usually unwanted
- Albanian:zhurmë (sq) f
- Arabic:ضَوْضَاء m(ḍawḍāʔ),ضَجِيج m(ḍajīj),ضَجَّة f(ḍajja)
- Egyptian Arabic:دوشة f(dawša)
- Moroccan Arabic:صّْداع(ṣdāʕ)
- North Levantine Arabic:صوت(ṣōt)
- South Levantine Arabic:دوشة(dawša, dawše),صوت(ṣōt)
- Tunisian Arabic:حِسّ(ḥess)
- Armenian:աղմուկ (hy)(aġmuk),աղաղակ (hy)(aġaġak)
- Assamese:হুলস্থূল(hulosthul),চিঞৰ-বাখৰ(sio͂ro-bakhor)
- Azerbaijani:səs-küy
- Basque:zarata
- Belarusian:шум m(šum)
- Bikol Central:ribok (bcl)
- Breton:trouz (br) m,trouzoù (br) pl
- Bulgarian:шум (bg) m(šum)
- Burmese:အသံ (my)(a.sam)
- Catalan:soroll (ca) m
- Chechen:гӏовгӏа(ğovğa)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:雜音 /杂音(zaap6 jam1),噪音(cou3 jam1)
- Mandarin:噪音 (zh)(zàoyīn),響聲 /响声 (zh)(xiǎngsheng)
- Chukchi:ӄуԓиԓьэт
- Czech:hluk (cs) m
- Danish:støj (da) c,larm (da) c,spektakel c,gny
- Dutch:lawaai (nl) n,herrie (nl) f,geluid (nl) n
- Esperanto:bruo
- Estonian:kära
- Finnish:melu (fi)
- French:bruit (fr) m,vacarme (fr) m,brouhaha (fr) m,boucan (fr) m,tintamarre (fr) m
- Friulian:romôr m
- Galician:barullo (gl) m
- Georgian:ხმაური(xmauri)
- German:Lärm (de) m,Geräusch (de) n,Krach (de) m(as inKrach machen: to make a lot of noise)
- Greek:θόρυβος (el) m(thóryvos)
- Ancient:θόρυβος m(thórubos)
- Hebrew:רעש (he) m(ra'ash)
- Hindi:शोर (hi)(śor),रव (hi)(rav),आहट (hi)(āhaṭ)
- Hungarian:zaj (hu),zörej (hu)
- Icelandic:hávaði (is)
- Ido:bruiso (io)
- Indonesian:kebisingan (id),berisik (id)
- Ingrian:šumu
- Irish:torann (ga) m,callán m,fothram m
- Italian:rumore (it) m,strepito (it)
- Japanese:雑音 (ja)(ざつおん, zatsuon),騒音 (ja)(そうおん, sōon),ノイズ (ja)(noizu)
- Kabuverdianu:barudju
- Khmer:សូរ (km)(soo)
- Kongo:makelele
- Korean:소음 (ko)(so'eum)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish:دەنگەدەگ(dengedeg)
- Ladin:fuera f
- Lao:ສຽງ (lo)(sīang)
- Latgalian:trūksnis,žvyuksts
- Latin:strepitus m,clangor m
- Latvian:troksnis
- Lingala:makelele
- Lithuanian:triukšmas m
- Macedonian:шум m(šum)
- Malay:bunyi (ms),bising (ms)
- Maori:matioke,tawē,haunene,ngē
- Middle English:noyse
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:støy m,larm m
- Nynorsk:støy m,larm m
- Occitan:bruch (oc) m
- Old English:ġehlȳd n
- Ottoman Turkish:گورلدی(gürüldü),سس(ses),چاو(çav)
- Persian:صدا (fa)(sedâ),نوفه (fa)(nufe)
- Polish:hałas (pl) m,szum (pl) m
- Portuguese:barulho (pt) m,ruído (pt) m,estrépido m
- Romanian:gălăgie (ro) f,larmă (ro) f,vacarm (ro) n,,zgomot (ro) n
- Russian:шум (ru) m(šum)
- Samoan:pisa
- Sango:makelele
- Sanskrit:घोष (sa) m(ghoṣa)
- Scottish Gaelic:fuaim m,faram m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:шум m,бука f
- Roman:šum (sh) m,buka (sh) f
- Slovak:hluk (sk) m
- Slovene:hrup (sl) m
- Spanish:ruido (es) m,estrépito (es) m,barullo (es) m
- Svan:გულ(gul)
- Swahili:kelele (sw),makelele
- Swedish:oljud (sv) n,buller (sv) n
- Tagalog:ingay
- Tetum:tarutu
- Thai:เสียง (th)(sǐiang)
- Tibetan:སྐད་ཅོར(skad cor)
- Tocharian B:klene
- Tok Pisin:nois
- Tongan:longoaʻa
- Turkish:gürültü (tr)
- Ukrainian:шум (uk) m(šum)
- Vietnamese:tiếng ồn (vi)
- Walloon:brut (wa) m,araedje (wa) f
- Yakut:тыас(tıas)
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sound or signal generated by random fluctuations
technical: unwanted part of a signal
level of variation in gene expression
genre of rock music using non-musical sounds
Translations to be checked
(Genetics meaning) "Noise in Gene Expression: Origins, Consequences, and Control." Jonathan M. Raser and Erin K. O'Shea (2005).Science.309(5743):2010-2013.
noise (third-person singular simple presentnoises,present participlenoising,simple past and past participlenoised)
- (intransitive) To make a noise; tosound.
1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:Those terrours, which thou speak'st of, did me none ;
I never fear'd they could, thoughnoising loud
And threatening nigh
- (transitive) Tospread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.
1678,John Bunyan,The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […],→OCLC; reprinted inThe Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London:Elliot Stock […],1875,→OCLC,page17:This man then meeting with Chriſtian, and having ſome inckling of him, for Chriſtians ſetting forth from the City ofDeſtruction was muchnoiſed abroad, not only in the Town, where he dwelt, but alſo it began to be theTown-talk in ſome other places.
- “noise”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “noise”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “noise”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Inherited fromOld Frenchnoise, possibly fromLatinnausia,nausea, or alternativelynoxia.
noise f (pluralnoises)
- (archaic or literary)quarrel,argument
noise
- Alternative form ofnoyse
noise
- Alternative form ofnoysen
Old Frenchnoise.
noise f (pluralnoises)
- noise
Uncertain; according to some, fromLatinnausia,nausea(“disgust, nausea”), compareOld Occitannauza(“noise, quarrel”); according to others, fromLatinnoxia(“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.
noiseoblique singular, f (oblique pluralnoises,nominative singularnoise,nominative pluralnoises)
- dispute,argument
- noise,sound