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Nose: the sensory organ FromMiddle English nose Old English nosu Proto-West Germanic *nosu *nasō Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- *nh₂es- ( “ nose, nostril ” ) .
See alsoSaterland Frisian Noose West Frisian noas Dutch neus Swedish nos Norwegian nos ( “ snout ” ) ,Low German Nääs German Nase Swedish näsa Norwegian nese Danish næse ( “ nose ” ) ; alsoLatin nāris ( “ nostril ” ) ,nāsus ( “ nose ” ) ,Lithuanian nósis Russian нос ( nos ) ,Sanskrit नासा ( nā́sā ,“ nostrils ” ) .
nose (plural noses
Aprotuberance on theface housing thenostrils , which are used tobreathe orsmell .She had a smallnose between two sparkling blue eyes.
Asnout , the nose of an animal. Thetip of an object.thenose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs , “The Land That Time Forgot ”, inThe Blue Book Magazine →OCLC Hugo Gernsback , editor,Amazing Stories (please specify |part=I to III) , New York, N.Y.:Experimenter Publishing ,1927 ,→OCLC We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep hernose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
1932 Delos W. Lovelace ,King Kong 1965 , page 1:Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt oldnose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
Thebulge on the side of apiece of ajigsaw puzzle , that fits into thehole adjacent piece. ( horse racing ) length of ahorse’s nose, used to indicate thedistance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.Red Rum only won by anose .
( perfumery ) perfumer .2014 March 4, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, inThe Guardian [1] →ISSN Jacques Polge, Chanel's top “nose ” since 1978, made the decision when developers started trying to buy up land around Grasse, where the Muls cultivate three hectares of the precious plant.
The sense of smell.c. 1700 Jeremy Collier ,Of Envy :We are not offended with[ …] nose than his master.
( idiomatic ) Bouquet , the smell of something, especially wine.Theskill in recognising bouquet.It is essential that a winetaster develops a goodnose .
( by extension ) A successful reporter has anose for news.
( idiomatic , also followed byaround about ) tosnoop They had anose around the abandoned property.
( architecture ) downward projection from acornice .Synonym: drip ( slang ) informer .Synonym: nark 1846 The Mysteries of London , page60 :[ …] Nose that turned chirp on his pal;[ …]
aquiline nose Australasian pig-nose turtle banana-nose banana nose bignose bishop's nose blacknose bloodied nose blood nose bloody nose blow one's nose bluenose blue-nosed bluntnose bottlenose bottle-nose bottle-nose dolphin brownnose bullet-nose bullnose bull's nose button nose camel's nose cherry nose clown nose coke nose conenose copper nose cownose cut off one's nose to spite one's face dicknose dog-nose dog's nose Dudley nose ear, nose and throat empty nose syndrome e-nose flatnose follow one's nose fucknose get up someone's nose give someone a bloody nose hard-nose hard nose have someone's nose wide open hawknose hawk-nose hawk nose hognose hold one's nose hold one's nose up hooknose in front of one's nose I've got your nose Jewish nose Jew nose Jew's nose keep one's nose clean largenose lead by the nose longnose long-nose look beyond the end of one's nose look beyond the tip of one's nose look down one's nose look past the end of one's nose look past the tip of one's nose neb-nose needlenose needle-nose gar nigger nose nollie nose about nose ape nose around nose art nosebag nose-bag nose bag noseband nosebar nosebeard nose beer nose bit nosebleeder nosebleeding nosebleed nose bleed nose blindness nose-blind nose blind noseblood nose-bonk nose bonk nose bridge noseburn nose butter nosebutter nose-candy nose candy nose cap noseclip nose cone nose count nosed nose-dead nose-deaf nose deaf nosedive nose-dive nose-ender nose-first nose flute noseful nosegay nosegear nose gear nose glasses nosegrind nose grind noseguard nose guard nosehole nose in the air nose-ish nose-job nose job nose key nose kiss noseleaf nose leather nose-led noseless noselift noselike nose line nosely nose monkey noseness nose-nipper nose of wax nose out of joint nose pad nose peg nose-pick nose-picker nose-picking nosepiece nose piece nose piercing nosepin noseplug nose poke nose powder noseprint nose putty noser noseride nose-ringed nosering nose ring noseshot nose-shot noseslide nose slide nosesmart nose strip nose stud nose-suspended nose tackle nose test nose-to-nose nose to tail nose to the grindstone nose trimmer noseward nosewards noseweight nosewheel nose whistle nosewing nosewise nosewitness noseworthy nosie no skin off one's nose nostril nosy nouse nozzle nussy on the nose parson's nose pay through the nose pick one's nose pig-nose turtle pin a rose on your nose pinch-nose glasses plain as the nose on one's face poke one's nose into pope's nose powder one's nose prodnose pug nose Red Nose Day red-nose tetra ring in one's nose Roman nose rub someone's nose in rummy nose rummy-nose tetra runny nose saddlenose saddle nose see beyond the end of one's nose see beyond the tip of one's nose see past the end of one's nose see past the tip of one's nose shortnose shovelnose ski-jump nose ski jump nose ski-nose ski nose ski-ramp nose ski ramp nose ski-slope nose ski slope nose snotnose snot-nose snub-nose snub nose socked on the nose softnose soft-nose soft nose starnose stick one's nose in stick one's nose into stumpnose sultan's nose talk through one's nose the nose knows thrust one's nose in thumb one's nose toffee-nose tubenose turn one's nose up turn up one's nose undernose under one's nose under one's very nose under someone's nose up your nose with a rubber hose whipnose whitenose white nose syndrome win by a nose wipe someone's nose nose (third-person singular simple present noses present participle nosing simple past and past participle nosed
( intransitive ) move cautiously by advancing its front end.The shipnosed through the minefield.
2025 November 12, Tony Streeter, “All around the world”, inRAIL , number1048 , page42 :Promontory 's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives thatnose up to each other just as the originals did.( intransitive , idiomatic , also followed byaround about , ambitransitive ) snoop .She wasnosing around other people’s business.
( transitive ) detect bysmell oras if by smell.c. 1599–1602 William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act IV, scene iii] ,page273 :[ …] noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.
2002 October 20, Bob Morris, “Connoisseurship Runneth Over”, inThe New York Times [2] →ISSN Real connoisseurs know that tonose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.
( transitive ) push with one's nose; tonuzzle .1868 Alfred Tennyson , “Lucretius”, inThe Holy Grail and Other Poems , London:Strahan and Co. , [ … ] 1870 ,→OCLC page211 :[L]ambs are glad /Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers:[ …]
( transitive ) defeat (as in arace or othercontest ) by anarrow margin ; sometimes without .( transitive ) nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasaltwang .tonose a prayer
c. 1635 William Cartwright ,The Ordinary :It makes far better musick when younose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.
( transitive ) tonose a stair tread
( transitive ) confront ; be closely face to face or opposite to.( intransitive , aviation ) dive down in a steep angle; tonosedive ( intransitive , aviation , nautical ) The plane isnosing up !
We have to get itnosing down .
to win by a narrow margin
Translations to be checked
“nose ”, inOneLook Dictionary Search . ENSO Enos NEOs Neso SONE Sone eons neos noes one's ones sone nose
vocative / locative singular ofnos nose
masculine singular present transgressive ofnosit nose
Rōmaji transcription ofのせ nose
nominative / accusative plural ofnos FromOld English nosu Proto-West Germanic *nosu
IPA (key ) : /ˈnɔːz(ə)/ ,/ˈnɔs(ə)/ nose plural noses or nosen
nose ( protrusion of the human face ) a. 1394 Geoffrey Chaucer , “General Prologue ”, inThe Canterbury Tales [3] 151–152 :Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was / Hirnose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas[ …] Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Hernose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass [ …] beak , nose-shapedprotrusion Probably fromOld French nous nos nou no ( “ knot ” ) .
nose plural noses
( rare , Late Middle English ) noose FromProto-Bantu *njíkɪ̀
nose
bee nosa ( a- and split infinitives ) nose (present tense nosar past tense nosa past participle nosa passive infinitive nosast present participle nosande imperative nose /nos
( transitive ) sniff ,nose “nose” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .nose
inflection ofnosu accusative / genitive / dative singular nominative / accusative plural nose f
nose nose (Cyrillic spelling носе
third-person plural present ofnositi nose
locative singular ofnos nose
( text messaging , colloquial ) short forno sé ( “ IDK ” ) 
