noise
pronunciation
How to pronounce noise in British English:
UK [nɔɪz]
How to pronounce noise in American English:
US [nɔɪz]
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- Noun:
- sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- a loud outcry of protest or complaint
- incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks
- the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
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- Verb:
- emit a noise
Word Origin
- noise
- noise: [13] Unlikely as it may seem, the ancestor of English noise meant ‘sickness’. It comes from Latin nausea, source also, of course, of English nausea. This was used colloquially for the sort of ‘hubbub’ or ‘confusion’ which is often coincident with someone being sick (and particularly seasick, which was what nausea originally implied), and Old French took it over, as noise, with roughly these senses. They later developed to ‘noisy dispute’, and modern French noise has retained the ‘dispute’ element of this, while English noise has gone for the ‘intrusive sound’.=> nausea, nautical, navy
- noise (n.)
- early 13c., "loud outcry, clamor, shouting," from Old French noise "din, disturbance, uproar, brawl" (11c., in modern French only in phrase chercher noise "to pick a quarrel"), also "rumor, report, news," apparently from Latin nausea "disgust, annoyance, discomfort," literally "seasickness" (see nausea). Another theory traces the Old French word to Latin noxia "hurting, injury, damage." OED considers that "the sense of the word is against both suggestions," but nausea could have developed a sense in Vulgar Latin of "unpleasant situation, noise, quarrel" (compare Old Provençal nauza "noise, quarrel"). Meaning "loud or unpleasant sound" is from c. 1300. Replaced native gedyn (see din).
- noise (v.)
- late 14c., "to praise; to talk loudly about," from noise (n.). Related: Noised; noising.
Antonym
Example
- 1. It has no compressor to break or make noise .
- 2. Noise cancelling headphones usually do away with low pitches .
- 3. Eg. I heard a rattling noise .
- 4. These sounds are usually considered just noise and are filtered out of the equation .
- 5. But I also saw the blood and noise of war .