Definition of nose

"nose" in the noun sense

1. nose, olfactory organ

the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals

"he has a cold in the nose"

2. nose

a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft

"the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry"

3. nose

the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon

"he ducked under the nose of the gun"

4. nose

a small distance

"my horse lost the race by a nose"

5. nose

a symbol of inquisitiveness

"keep your nose out of it"

6. nose

the sense of smell (especially in animals

"the hound has a good nose"

7. nose

a natural skill

"he has a nose for good deals"

8. nozzle, nose

a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged

"nose" in the verb sense

1. intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke

search or inquire in a meddlesome way

"This guy is always nosing around the office"

2. nose

advance the forward part of with caution

"She nosed the car into the left lane"

3. scent, nose, wind

catch the scent of get wind of

"The dog nosed out the drugs"

4. nose

push or move with the nose

5. nuzzle, nose

rub noses

6. nose

defeat by a narrow margin

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Quotations for nose

To slit one's nose. [ Proverb ]

Justice has a nose of wax. [ German Proverb ]

He takes pepper in his nose. [ Proverb ]

To make a bridge of one's nose. [ Proverb ]

Those who in quarrels interpose.
Must often wipe a bloody nose. [ Gay ]

Plain as a nose in a man's face. [ Rabelais ]

An inch in a man's nose is much. [ Proverb ]

Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. [ Longfellow ]

You were bred in brazen-nose college. [ Proverb ]

To hold one's nose to the grindstone. [ Proverb ]

I have a dog of Blenheim birth.
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running over the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again
Like lightning on he goes! [ Ruskin ]

I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. [ Ben Jonson ]

But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every man's nose will not make a shooing-horn. [ Proverb ]

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One may know by his nose what porridge he loves. [ Proverb ]

Your mamma's milk is scarce out of your nose yet. [ Proverb ]

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose. [ Max Muller ]

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. [ Burton ]

He that wipes the child's nose kisseth the mother's cheek. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. [ Proverb ]

He that has a great nose thinks every body is speaking of it. [ Proverb ]

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applied to those that have a blow). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed. [ Pascal ]

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. [ Cervantes ]

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]

Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

nose in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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nose in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words containing the sequence nose

Word Growth involving nose

Shorter words in nose

no nos

os nos

Longer words containing nose

acuminose

anginose

arabinose arabinoses

biocenose biocenoses

biocoenose biocoenoses

bottlenose

brownnose brownnosed

brownnose brownnoser brownnosers

brownnose brownnoses

bullnose bullnosed

bullnose bullnoses

bunoselenodont bunoselenodonts

cyanose cyanosed

cyanose cyanoses

diagnose diagnoseable

diagnose diagnosed misdiagnosed

diagnose diagnosed selfdiagnosed

diagnose diagnosed underdiagnosed

diagnose diagnosed undiagnosed

diagnose diagnoses electrodiagnoses

diagnose diagnoses immunodiagnoses

diagnose diagnoses iridodiagnoses

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diagnose diagnoses xenodiagnoses

diagnose misdiagnose misdiagnosed

diagnose misdiagnose misdiagnoses

diagnose overdiagnose

diagnose selfdiagnose selfdiagnosed

diagnose selfdiagnose selfdiagnoser selfdiagnosers

furanose furanoses

gnoseologic gnoseological gnoseologically

gnoseologies

gnoseologist gnoseologists

gnoseology

hardnose hardnosed

hardnose hardnoses

longnose

mechanosense mechanosensed

mechanosense mechanosenses

mechanosensing

mechanosensory

monoseme monosemes

monosemic

monosemies

monosemous

monosemy

monosexual monosexualities

monosexual monosexuality

monosexual monosexually

monosexual monosexuals

nanosecond nanoseconds

nanosensor nanosensors

needlenose needlenoses

nosean noseans

nosebag nosebags

noseband nosebands

nosebleed nosebleeds

noseclip noseclips

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nosed diagnosed selfdiagnosed

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nosed hardnosed

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noses glycogenoses

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noses gnoses diagnoses immunodiagnoses

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noses gnoses diagnoses misdiagnoses

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noses gnoses diagnoses radiodiagnoses

noses gnoses diagnoses xenodiagnoses

noses gnoses prognoses

noses hardnoses

noses hooknoses

noses hypervitaminoses

noses hypnoses autohypnoses

noses lipofuscinoses

noses lymphadenoses

noses molybdenoses

noses needlenoses

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noses saddlenoses

noses stenoses esophagostenoses oesophagostenoses

noses toxinoses

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nosewear

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pornosexual nonpornosexual

pornosexual pornosexualities

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pruinose epruinose

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