noise
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
noise/nɔɪz/
▶noun
- 1 a sound, especially one that is loud, unpleasant, or disturbing.
■ continuous or repeated loud, confused sounds.
- 2 (noises) conventional remarks expressing some emotion or purpose: the government made tough noises about defending sterling.
- 3 technical irregular fluctuations accompanying and tending to obscure an electrical signal or other significant phenomenon.
- 1 (usu. be noised about) talk about or make known publicly.
- 2 make much noise.
– phrases
make a noise speak or act in a way designed to attract attention.
noises off sounds made offstage to be heard by the audience of a play.
make a noise speak or act in a way designed to attract attention.
noises off sounds made offstage to be heard by the audience of a play.
'noise' also found in these Oxford entries:
acoustic shock
- babel
- background
- bang
- beat
- bicker
- big shot
- blast
- blat
- boing
- borborygmus
- bother
- bruit
- bullroarer
- burble
- buzzer
- caterwaul
- cicada
- clamour
- clique
- compander
- cough
- crack
- cracker
- crash
- crunchy
- deaden
- din
- Dolby
- double glazing
- drum
- dunderhead
- earmuffs
- earplug
- fire alarm
- footprint
- gaggle
- gobo
- graunch
- grunt
- howl
- hubbub
- hum
- knackwurst
- knock
- LNB
- loud
- lull
- maroon
- mew
