Definition of noise

"noise" in the noun sense

1. noise

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, racket

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, disturbance

electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

4. noise

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. noise

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, noise

the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

"noise" in the verb sense

1. make noise, resound, noise

emit a noise

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Quotations for noise

Splitting the air with noise. [ William Shakespeare ]

The noise is greater than the nuts. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Proud peacocks, all noise and shew. [ Proverb ]

Calumny is only the noise of madmen. [ Diogenes ]

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail,
When honor and affection fail. [ Lloyd ]

A poor man's debt makes a great noise. [ Proverb ]

They that govern most make least noise. [ John Selden ]

Sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light;
A rosy garland, and a weary head. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy. [ Milton ]

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue;
A string which hath no discord. [ Barry Cornwall ]

My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]

A blow with a reed makes a noise, but hurts not. [ Proverb ]

He that has the worst cause makes the most noise. [ Proverb ]

Millers need no noise, yet cannot grind without it. [ Proverb ]

Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows; but without that noise. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! [ Cowley ]

If you love not the noise of the bells, why do you pull the ropes? [ Proverb ]

The mill makes the most noise when there is no grist in the hopper. [ Jean Paul ]

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. [ Lord Halifax ]

Choose not a house near an inn (viz., for noise) or in a corner (for filth). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak. [ Montaigne ]

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. [ Beecher ]

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. [ Crabbe ]

Twenty ages sunk in eternal night. They are without movement, without light, and without noise. [ Lemoine ]

Like the smith's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers, and wakes at the crashing of teeth. [ Proverb ]

Coolness, and absence of heat and haste, indicate fine qualities. A gentleman makes no noise, a lady is serene. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Look forward a little further to the period when all the noise and tumult and business of this world shall have closed forever. [ J. G. Pike ]

What has become of those personages who made so much noise in the world? Time has made one step, and the face of the earth is renewed. [ Chateaubriand ]

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. [ Pope ]

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. [ Addison ]

Our minds are like certain vehicles, - when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly. [ Elihu Burritt ]

Such a noise arose as the shroud? make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. [ Leighton ]

Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph. [ Fuller ]

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys. [ Pascal ]

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. [ Burritt ]

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. [ Burke ]

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]

noise in Scrabble®

The word noise is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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noise in Words With Friends™

The word noise is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words containing the sequence noise

Words with noise in them (5 words)

Words that end with noise (4 words)

Word Growth involving noise

Shorter words in noise

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Longer words containing noise

antinoise

brunoise

denoise denoised

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denoise denoises

noised denoised

noiseless noiselessly

noiseless noiselessness

noiselevel noiselevels

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