noise
1. sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) (Freq. 43)
- 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
• Hypernyms:
sound
• Hyponyms:
bang, clap, eruption, blast, bam,
banging, bark, blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor,
din, boom, roar, roaring, thunder, chatter,
chattering, chug, clack, clang, clangor, clangour,
clangoring, clank, clash, crash, clatter, crack,
cracking, snap, crackle, crackling, crepitation, creak,
creaking, crunch, ding-dong, explosion, grate, grinding,
grunt, oink, hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle,
sibilation, howl, hubbub, uproar, brouhaha, katzenjammer,
hum, humming, pant, plonk, plop, plump,
racket, rattle, rattling, rale, report, rhonchus,
rumble, rumbling, grumble, grumbling, rustle, rustling,
whisper, whispering, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching,
screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming,
scrunch, shrilling, sizzle, slam, snore, spatter,
spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering,
splash, plash, squawk, squeak, squish, stridulation,
swoosh, whoosh
2. the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience (Freq. 1)
- modern music is just noise to me
• Syn:
dissonance, racket
• Derivationally related forms:
dissonant (for: dissonance), dissonate (for: dissonance)
• Hypernyms:
sound, auditory sensation
3. electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
• Syn:
interference, disturbance
• Hypernyms:
trouble
• Hyponyms:
clutter, background, background signal, crosstalk, XT,
fadeout, jitter, static, atmospherics, atmospheric static, white noise
4. 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
• Derivationally related forms:
noisy
• Hypernyms:
cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation
5. 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
• Hypernyms:
incomprehensibility
6. the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
• Syn:
randomness, haphazardness, stochasticity
• Derivationally related forms:
haphazard (for: haphazardness), random (for: randomness)
• Hypernyms:
irregularity, unregularity
• Hyponyms:
ergodicity
emit a noise
• Syn:
make noise, resound
• Derivationally related forms:
resonant (for: resound)
• Hypernyms:
sound, go
• Hyponyms:
sizzle, roar, howl, sough, purl,
honk, claxon, hum, crunch, scranch, scraunch,
crackle, whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak,
skreak, racket, clatter, clack, brattle, stridulate,
clitter, drown out, jingle, jingle-jangle, jangle, scream,
backfire, ring out, blast, blare
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
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