(of unpleasant noise)
1noise — 1 /nOIz/ noun 1 SOUND (C, U) sound, especially a loud or unpleasant sound: the noise of the traffic | a loud cracking noise | make (a) noise: Try not to make a noise when you go upstairs. | Stop making so much noise. 2 make polite/encouraging etc …
2noise pollution — noun annoying and potentially harmful environmental noise • Syn: ↑sound pollution • Hypernyms: ↑pollution * * * noun [noncount] : loud or unpleasant noise that is caused by automobiles, airplanes, etc., and that is harmful or annoying to the… …
3Noise (music) — Noise music Stylistic origins Modernism 20th century classical music Electronic art music Musique concrète Electroacoustic music Performance art Free improvisation Cultural origins Early 1910s Europe Typical instruments …
4noise — [ nɔız ] noun *** uncount a loud or unpleasant sound: The noise from the machines is deafening. make a noise: Please will you stop making so much noise! too much noise: The neighbors said that we were making too much noise. a. count a sound: The… …
5noise — I noun ado, blare, blatancy, cacophony, charivari, clamor, clamorousness, clangor, clatter, cry, detonation, din, discord, fanfare, fracas, harsh sound, hubbub, hullabaloo, jangle, loudness, outcry, pandemonium, racket, ruckus, ruction, sonitus,… …
6noise pollution — noise pol.lution n [U] very loud or continuous noise which is considered unpleasant and harmful to people …
7noise — ► NOUN 1) a sound, especially one that is loud, unpleasant, or disturbing. 2) continuous or repeated loud, confused sounds. 3) (noises) conventional remarks expressing some emotion or purpose. 4) technical irregular fluctuations accompanying and… …
8unpleasant sound — index noise Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
9noise — {{11}}noise (n.) early 13c., loud outcry, clamor, shouting, from O.Fr. noise din, disturbance, uproar, brawl (11c., in modern French only in phrase chercher noise to pick a quarrel ), also rumor, report, news, apparently from L. nausea disgust,… …
10noise — noise1 W2S2 [nɔız] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: quarreling, noise , from Latin nausea; NAUSEA] 1.) [U and C] a sound, especially one that is loud, unpleasant, or frightening = ↑sound ▪ What s that noise? noise of …
