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▪ I. noise
obs. form of nose.
▪ II. noise, n.|nɔɪz|
Forms: 3–7 noyse, 4–6 noys, 5–6 noyes, Sc. noyis, 6 noyse; 4 nois, 6 noiz, 3– noise. Also 4 nouse, nowse, 5 nose.
[a. F. noise (11th cent.; OF. also noyse, nose) = Prov. noysa, nosa, nausa, of uncertain origin: L. nausea and noxia have been proposed, but the sense of the word is against both suggestions.]
1. a. Loud outcry, clamour, or shouting; din or disturbance made by one or more persons.
In this and other senses freq. in the phrase to make (more rarely † keep) a noise: cf. sense 6.
a1225Ancren R. 66 Þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope, þen a riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8167 Of trompes & of tabors þe sarazins made þere So gret noyse þat cristinemen al destourbed were. a1300Cursor M. 6535 He hard þe gret nois was þare Abute þis calf. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11531 At þat word was noise & cry Of þe Bretons þat stoden ney. 1370Robt. Cicyle 174 (Horstm.), He gan crie and make nois, He swor þei schulde alle abye [etc.]. 1390Gower Conf. III. 321 With this noise and with this cry, Out of a barge faste by..Men sterten out. 1455Paston Lett. I. 351 They sette an hous on fyer.., and cryed and mad an noyse as though they had be sory for the fyer. 1481Caxton Godfrey v. 23 Of the noyse that sourded emonge the hethen men discordyng in theyr lawe. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lix. 207 They all made great ioy with suche a ioyfull noyse that the paynyms without dyd here it. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. iii. i. 61 Who is that at the doore yt keeps all this noise? 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 42 It did mightily vexe me,..that I could not call vnto them to keepe lesse noise. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Redemption 12 At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth Of theeves and murderers. 1702Rowe Tamerl. iv. i, Thou hast thy sexes Virtues, Their Affectation, Pride, Ill Nature, Noise. 1775tr. Scarron's Com. Rom. I. 286 Zounds, sir, don't keep such a noise about your boots, but rather take mine, so you will but let us sleep. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxv, I wish you'd hold your noise! 1850Browning Bp. Blougram's Apol. 19 When dinner's done, And body gets its sop and holds its noise And leaves soul free a little.
†b. without noise, in a quiet manner; without any display, privately. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. I. 100 Prively withoute noise He bringth this foule grete Coise To his Castell. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 114 b, She would be buried without any pompe or noyse. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 508 After this time Ezechia had rest, and spending without noyse that addition which God had made unto his life. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. 110 They were married on Shrove-Sunday..but without any noyse.
†c. Strife, contention, quarrelling. Obs.
1484Caxton Fables of æsop ii. xii. 48 Oftyme it happeth that of a fewe wordes euyll fette, cometh a grete noyse and daunger. 1491― Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. cxix. 141/1 Neuer to haue noyse with a nother it is angels lyfe. 1530Palsgr. 248/1 Noyse, frayeng, castille.
2.
†a. Common talk, rumour, report; also, evil report, slander, scandal. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6383 He let caste þis traitour in þe eueninge late At an fenestre in temese, noise vorto abate. c1400Rom. Rose 3971 To me it is gret hevinesse, That the noyse so fer is go, And the sclaundre of us two. 1426Paston Lett. I. 26 To declare aught of this matier in stoppyng of the noyse that renneth in this case. 1461Ibid. II. 50 Ther is gret noyse of this revell that was don in Suffolk be Yelverton and Jeney. c1478Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 38 The great rumor, slaunder, & full noyse of your tenants..att they shold be untrew peopell. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccliv. 571 The castell..the whiche the Gauntoyse hadde brente, as the noyse ranne. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 92 The noyse of the death of King James divulgat,..the hartes of men begane to be disclossed. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 179 All agree in the noise of more plotts. 1683Sir W. Temple Mem. Wks. 1720 I. 423 The Noise that ran of the magnificent Preparations..design'd by the Marquess. 1711Addison Spect. No. 164 ⁋1 The Noise of this intended Marriage soon reached Theodosius. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) VII. xvii. 223 The noise of this accident was immediately spread in all parts.
†b. Repute, reputation. Obs.
c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 224 Thou has an yll noys of stelyng of shepe. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. vii. 282 By cause of that noyse and fame that thou hast. 1549–62Sternhold & H. Ps. lxxxix. 16 Through thy righteousness have they a pleasant fame and noyce. 1556Aurelio & Isab. (1608) N vj, Myn ill noise makes me worthey that all the wordes ill saide againste them be unto me attributede.
†c. Distinction, note. Obs. rare—1.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. iii. 201 They were persons of no great noise, but resolute, modest, courteous.
d. An utterance, usu. in phr. to make noises: to express (something) vocally; freq. with defining adj. prefixed.
1951N. Marsh Opening Night vii. 152 Dr. Curtis said: ‘I'd better go and make professional noises at him.’ 1955Times 21 July 8/6 If this is so, ‘why then the noise about the 12 German divisions in W.E.U. and N.A.T.O.?’ 1956N. Marsh Off with his Head (1957) v. 91, I suppose I ought to make a polite noise. 1965N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 42 Leftwing Liberals have made neutralist noises in the past. 1967New Scientist 22 June 718 General Electric and Alcoa, for example, are making noises about getting into city building. 1969S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret iii. 232, I made the right kind of encouraging noises. 1971Guardian 14 May 24/2 There is a temptation to see the hand of Tate and Lyle and Mr Cube in any political noises from the sugar trade. 1971P. Worsthorne Socialist Myth iii. 32 The Labour Party cannot make the classical patriotic noises as convincingly as the Tories. 1973Times 8 Jan. 3/3 Although the city council is, as they see it, making more friendly noises, its policies on development and road building..set it on a collision course.
3. a. A loud or harsh sound of any kind; a din.
c1290St. Barnabas 51 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 28 Al þat on half daschte a-doun..of þis temple with gret noyse and soun. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 849 Þe god man glyfte with þat glam & gloped for noyse. 1390Gower Conf. III. 216 Many an other tente mo With gret noise, as me thoghte tho, It threw to grounde. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxi. 138 Þer es herd noyse as it ware of trumppes. a1450Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 5 Þe noyse of houndes & blastes of hornes. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxiii. 68 The water..made suche a noyse that it myght be herde .x. leges of. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 95 By the noyes of a spanyell was on a night a man espied and taken. 1582Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. 73 b, The tackling.., with the great force of the winde, made such a terrible noyse, and was so fearefull to heare. 1624Quarles Job xvii 54 Who ever heard the voyce Of th' angry heavens, unfrighted at the noyse? 1653tr. Carmeni's Nissena 124 By the noise of Trumpets and beating up of Drums. 1710J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Nat. Philos. (1729) I. 185 Gunpowder when it takes Fire in a Cannon..makes such a prodigious Noise. a1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 160 This motion continued the remaining part of the day..; nor did the noise cease during the whole time. 1848L. Hunt Jar of Honey ii. 23 A noise is heard like the coming of a thousand chariots. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. iv, I never heard any one make such a noise on a piano.
b. The aggregate of loud sounds arising in a busy community.
c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xx. 25 Þat he wiþdrawiþ him fer fro seculer noyce. c1610Women Saints (1880) 44 Ill brooking secular noise, and worldlie companie of the towne. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. ii. 5 Obscured and made weak; as the voyce of a man is in the noyse of the day. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 286 In shady Privacy, free from the Noise And busles of the World. 1730Berkeley Lett. Wks. 1871 IV. 173 Preferring quiet and solitude to the noise of a great town. 1784Cowper Task iii. 379 A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it, wise. 1816Shelley Dæmon i. 28 Seek far from noise and day some western cave.
c. noises off: sound effects, usu. loud or confused, produced off the stage but to be heard by the audience at the performance of a play. Also transf.
1924H. A. Vachell Quinney's Adventures 46 As he did so, he heard what is called in stageland a ‘noise off’. ‘Put them in your pocket,’ commanded madame, in a hurried whisper. 1932Wodehouse Hot Water ii. 66 He's got a job with the British Broadcasting Company... He does the noises off. 1934B.B.C. Year-bk. 44 Plays, for example, need their effects, which in their turn call for the studio and staff allocated specially for producing ‘noises off’. 1937N. Marsh Vintage Murder xi. 122 ‘And what..is Scotland Yard's part in the proceedings?’ ‘Noises off, Mr Ackroyd,’ replied Alleyn good-humouredly. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 38 The aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie exist in his books chiefly as a kind of ‘noises off’, a haw-hawing chorus somewhere in the wings. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches iii. v. 359 After some time had elapsed, there were ‘noises off’ from which those of us who remained concluded that the attention of the enemy was fully engaged elsewhere. 1958Times 7 July 9/4 There are ‘noises-off’, however, that add to the harmony. 1972Daily Tel. 31 May 10/4 In fact the rustlings of the wind-blown trees were perfect noises-off for Shakespeare's uninhabited island.
d. noise and number index: a quantity used in evaluating aircraft noise in terms of its intensity and duration.
1963Final Rep. Comm. Probl. Noise 218 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2056) XXII. 657 During the Social Survey made in 1961 in the vicinity of London (Heathrow) Airport, measurement of noise levels and studies of the numbers of aircraft likely to be heard were made... The results have been combined..to form a Noise and Number Index (NNI). 1971Physics Bull. Nov. 660/3 An exposure index for aircraft noise has been developed from this survey, called the noise and number index. This index is a combination of the average noise level measured at a point on the ground and the number of times a person is exposed to aircraft noise during a given period of time.
4. A sound which is not remarkably loud.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvi. (Nicholas) 121 Þane of þe noys of his fet he waknyt þane. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 275 Democritus was woned to seie þat þe hestes of schrewes and þe noyse of þe wombe beeþ in oon place. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 232 b, That noise..whan a man doeth rattle or shake together a nomber of dead mens bones. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 196 We tooke some rest,..but with such feare, as wee were ready to flie upon the least noise. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xii. 36 Some report of sheep, that when they runne they are afraid of the noise of their own feet. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 801 A buzzing noise of Bees his Ears alarms. 1732Arbuthnot Rules Diet in Aliments, etc. 315 A soft Noise of Water distilling by Drops into a Bason. a1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 28 The noise which the snail makes in moving the water. 1833Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv. iii, Thro' the noises of the night She floated down to Camelot. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 364 The noises which attend the acts of coughing.
fig.1660South Serm. (1727) IV. 31 One would think, that every Letter was wrote with a Tear, every Word was the Noise of a breaking Heart.
5. a. An agreeable or melodious sound. Now rare.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 79 Than doth the nyghtyngale hir myght To make noyse and syngen blythe. Ibid. 1416 The water, in renning, Gan make a noyse ful lyking. c1403Lydg. Temple Glas 1362 Þe noise and heuenli melodie Which þat þei made in her armonye. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlvi. 25 Nevir suetar noys wes hard with levand man, Na maid this merry gentill nychtingaill. 1535Coverd. Ps. xlvi. 5 God is gone vp with a mery noyse. a1553Udall Royster D. i. iv. 20 Up wyth some mery noyse, Sirs, to bring home the bride! 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. ix. 84 Diuers cymbals..made a very plesant and delectable noyce. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. 368–9 It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook.
†b. A company or band of musicians. Obs.
1558in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. I. 39 Nere unto Fanchurch was erected a scaffolde richely furnished, whereon stode a noyes of instrumentes. 1594Lyly Moth. Bomb. iii. iv, Then I wish'd for a noyse Of crack-halter Boyes, On those hempen strings to be twanging. 1598Chapman Blinde Beg. Alexandria Plays 1873 I. 17 Oh that we had a noyse of musitions to play to this anticke as we goe. 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iii. iii, The smell of the venison, going through the street, will inuite one noyse of fidlers, or other. 1636R. Griffin in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 52 A Virgin-crew of matchlesse choyce,..attended with a noyse Of musique sweet. 1668Dryden Maiden Queen iii. i, I hear him coming, and a whole noise of fiddles at his heels.
transf.1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer i. i, I cou'd as soon suffer a whole Noise of Flatterers at a Great Man's Levee.
6. to make (or † keep) a noise (in other than literal senses):
a. To make an outcry, to talk much or loudly, about a thing.
1668Sir W. Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington Wks. 1720 II. 163 Many Persons in England..had made a Noise about the Marine Treaty. c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 300 For all the great noise that is made about it, there is but little true faith in the world. 1753Scots Mag. XV. 67/1 The French made a great deal of noise about advantages they had gained. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) Introd. 9 Anatomists have made a noise about the different structures of the same part.
b. To be much talked of; to be the object of general notice and comment. Also (without preceding make or keep) used of a person, esp. in phr. the (or a) big noise: a person of great importance (orig. U.S.).
1618Howell Lett. (1650) I. 5 The news that keeps greatest noise here now, is the return of Sir Walter Rawleigh. 1677Hist. MSS. Comm., 12th Rep. App. V. 36 Lord Burghley's chalange sent by Sir Scroope Howe makes a great deal of noyse. 1707Addison Pres. St. War Wks. 1766 III. 258 Blenheim was followed by a summer that makes no noise in the war. 1788Nelson in Nicolas Disp. & Lett. (1845) I. 275 The capture of a Privateer makes more noise taken in the Channel, than a Frigate..afar off. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. ii. 107 In 1596, David Black..delivered a sermon, which made much noise. 1908G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock vii. 153 A lot of people are beginning to think that Teddy's a mere noise. 1911R. W. Chambers Common Law vi. 169 Well, sister, take it from muh, she thinks she's the big noise in the Great White Alley. 1927T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Feb. (1938) 506 Drill Parades bi-weekly when a big noise draws near—Sir Sam. 1931Galsworthy Maid in Waiting vi. 42 Saxenden is a big noise behind the scenes in military matters. 1939C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune iii. iii. 296 Elderton was the big noise in the Home Office. 1942J. B. Priestley Black-out in Gretley iii. 32 He's rather a big noise here. Landed man really, but has a seat on our Board, and a local J.P. 1957M. Kennedy Heroes of Clone i. v. 50 Say you don't want him. You're the big noise here.
c. to make a noise in the world, to attain to general notoriety or renown.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. ii. §6 Their Hieroglyphical and mystical Learning hath made the greatest noise in the world, and hath the least of substance in it. 1685Burnet Let. in Trav. (1687) ii. 42 Those publick scandals that make a noise in the World. 1702Addison Dial. Medals Misc. Wks. 1736 III. 14 Such persons as have made a noise in the world. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 191 The first of these, The Tale of a Tub, has made much noise in the world.
d. Joc. phr. to make a noise like, to pretend to be.
1920‘Sapper’ Bull-Dog Drummond v. 126 Make a noise like a sturgeon, and he'll think it's caviare. 1928D. L. Sayers Lord Peter views Body 87, I s'pose I'd better make a noise like a hoop and roll away. Night, night, everybody. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang. Suppl. 1199/1 Noise like a—, make a..dates from ca. 1908. Baden Powell, in his Scouting for Boys, instructed scouts in danger of detection to take cover and make a noise like a (say) thrush.
7. In scientific use, a collective term (used without the indef. article) for: fluctuations or disturbances (usu. irregular) which are not part of a wanted signal or which interfere with its intelligibility or usefulness.
1923Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. IX. 119/2 The variations in noise were plotted, and their effect at times was to reduce the intelligibility to 20 or 30 per cent. 1930Proc. IRE XVIII. 253 Circuit for measuring noise on the plate side of a vacuum tube. Ibid. 259 The ratio of signal to noise in the input circuit. 1932F. E. Terman Radio Engin. vi. 207 The output currents obtained..in the absence of a signal voltage produce what is commonly referred to as ‘noise’ when flowing through a..loudspeaker, and it is also common practice to apply the term ‘noise’ to the corresponding radio-frequency currents obtained in the output of a radio-frequency amplifier, although these lie above the range of audible frequencies. 1940Zworykin & Morton Television vi. 194 If the noise is appreciable compared with the picture signal, it appears in the reproduction as a myriad of constantly changing bright specks. 1953J. B. Carroll Study of Language vii. 201 It is..necessary to study the effect of the signal-to-noise ratio on the efficiency of communication, noise being defined as that part of a received transmission which is extraneous to the original message. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 262 In all electronic components and recording or transmission media the signal must compete with some degree of background noise. 1966New Scientist 16 June 714/3 In this way a radar echo which may otherwise be hidden by ‘noise’ is rendered visible. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoretical Linguistics ii. 88 The distortions produced in one's handwriting in a moving train can be attributed to ‘noise’. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing i. 21 Information theory deals largely with what happens when a random interference (‘noise’) is superimposed on the desired signal. 1973Computers & Humanities VII. 160 Knisbacher uses a generalized (context-free) grammar in his algorithm [for machine translation] but avoids the ‘noise’ of too many resultant analyses for each sentence by simulating context sensitivity within that context-free framework. 1974Nature 10 May 192/1 As normally viewed, displays of video noise (‘snow’) have the appearance of fields of small speckles which seem to dart about at random.
8. Comb., as noise abatement, noise control, noise level, noise-maker, noise-making, noise measurement, noise meter, noise pollution, noise reduction, noise suppression; noise-free, noise-measuring adjs.; noise check Motor Rallying, the use of a decibel metre to ensure that cars do not make too much noise; noise contour, an imaginary line or surface joining points where the noise level is the same; noise factor or figure Electronics, a quantity representing the additional noise introduced by a signal-processing device such as an amplifier (see quots.); noise filter Electronics, a filter for selectively reducing noise; noise limiter Electronics, a circuit or device for selectively reducing certain types of noise, esp. by momentarily reducing the output or the gain during peaks of greater amplitude than the desired signal; noise-money (see quot. 1883); noise storm Astr., a radio emission from the sun consisting of a succession of short bursts or pips in the megahertz range that lasts for a period of hours or days and is associated with sunspots.
1923Health II. 438 A real want, a very great want, and a very immediate want is a Noise-Abatement Society. 1973Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/3 It would be very hard to sustain a reasonable argument against them on noise abatement grounds.
1960S. Turner Rallying vi. 68 One other sort of check which you must treat with respect is a noise check. 1963[see dust-raising adj. (dust n.1 8 b)]. 1963P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 37, I was remarkably unimpressed by the secrecy displayed by noise-check marshals on one big rally.
1971Physics Bull. Nov. 656/1 During design studies of rotorcraft the noise of various designs is assessed by predicting an appropriate noise contour (usually 90 PN dB) and comparing it with the design noise target. 1973Times 25 Apr. 19/6 If there were a prospect of drastically curtailing operations from Heathrow and Gatwick..before the time when the noise contours will start contracting through the increasing use of quieter aircraft, then there would be some point..in building Maplin.
1960McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. IX. 120/1 The first step in noise control is an analysis of the nature and extent of the problem.
1937A. G. Tynan in Radio Engin. July 21/2 Such a factor is very easily arrived at by multiplying the noise-signal ratio..by the sensitivity of the receiver in microvolts. This may be conveniently christened the noise factor. 1952Wireless World June 224/1 There are various slightly different definitions of noise factor (in America, ‘noise figure’). Ibid., The noise factor is 3. It means that the result of amplifier noise is to make the noise 3 times as bad as in the ideal case where the signal source is the sole noise generator. Ibid., In an ideal amplifier or receiver the noise factor..would be 1. 1962Rep. Comm. Broadcasting 1960 333 in Parl. Papers 1961–2 (Cmnd. 1753) IX. 259 The Band V tests have also shown that the noise factor of receivers in this Band is at present relatively high.
1944Proc. IRE XXXII. 420/2 The noise figure F of the network is defined as the ratio of the available signal-to-noise ratio at the signal-to-generator terminals to the available signal-to-noise ratio at its output terminals. 1952Noise figure [see noise factor above]. 1968Wireless World Dec. 455/2 Noise figure = Total noise output power/Noise output power due to sources only. Ibid. 457/2 Negative feedback..has no effect whatever on the noise figure of an amplifier at any given frequency. Ibid. 458/2 A noise figure at 1,000 Hz of 0·02 dB.
1960McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. IX. 130/1 The tone control of a radio or record player can act as a noise filter, as when high-frequencies are cut down to reduce record noise. 1967E. L. Gruenberg Handbk. Telemetry & Remote Control ix. 15 The characteristics of the noise filter are determined by the sampling rate, the overall system accuracy, and the allowable crosstalk between successive samples.
1934Discovery Dec. 348/1 Standard practice in noise-free construction is now available for architects. 1966D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. 162 Careful design of the collection system for backscattered electrons yields practically noise-free images.
1925Sci. Amer. June 422/3 The limit of radio..is the static—what the radio engineers call the ‘noise level’ of the disturbances in the ether. 1932V. O. Knudsen Archit. Acoustics ix. 257 The average street noise level in New York varies from about 47 to 80 db. 1959Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 20/7 It must be shown that helicopter operations can be carried out at a noise level tolerable to the public. 1972R. Adams Watership Down xix. 111 Nowadays, among fields and woods, the noise level by day is..too high for some kinds of animal to tolerate.
1939Wireless World 5 Jan. 15 (heading) Noise limiters suppressing interference in the receiver. 1954E. Molloy Radio & Television Engineers' Ref. Bk. xxxiii. 8 Noise limiters tend to be less efficient when used in receivers possessing extremely high selectivity.
1574Howse in Hist. Fam. Fortescue (1869) II. 231 They found nobody there, for the noise-makers were gone back. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. i. 47 You whoreson insolent Noyse⁓maker. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 533 Of so much more Concernment is one suffering Saint, than all the Noise⁓makers in the World. 1815Moore Mem. (1853) II. 78 Among chatterers, drinkers, and all sorts of noise-makers.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 187 Thou shalte lagh wythout grynnynge, speke wyth-out cry or noyse-makynge.
1934Discovery Dec. 345 Efforts..are being made to provide standards of noise-measurement.
Ibid. 347/1 The expert with his noise-measuring gear. 1964R. F. Ficchi Electr. Interference vii. 120 About twenty years ago, a new approach to the problem of measurement was taken when it was stated that the most practical type of noise-measuring instrument is, essentially, a radio receiver with an indicating means.
1931Proc. IRE XIX. 1953 This instrument, which has been called a ‘circuit noise meter’, consists of an amplifier, a frequency weighting network, a rectifier, and an indicating meter. 1950Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LIV. 699/1 The microphone..has been calibrated by the makers in conjunction with the noise meter.
1883Chamb. Jrnl. 8 Dec. 770/2 So disagreeable is this fog⁓signalling duty..that..the whole crew receive what they call ‘Noise-money’,..for the time the signal is actually in operation.
1970Britannica Bk. of Year 1969 798/3 Noise pollution, pollution consisting of annoying noise (noise pollution caused by automobile traffic, a jet airplane, or a vacuum cleaner); called also sound pollution. 1970Sci. Jrnl. Mar. 5 The greatly improved noise pollution characteristics of VTOL compared not only with conventional aircraft (CTOL) but with short take off and landing craft (STOL). 1972J. Maddox Doomsday Syndrome iv. 98 ‘Noise pollution’ is a phrase in everyday use.
1931Proc. IRE XIX. 1763 The noise reduction advantage of the arrays..is some 15 decibels over that of a nondirectional antenna. 1959W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 114/2 In photographic recording and reproducing, noise reduction is a process whereby the average transmission of the sound track of the print..is decreased for signals of low level and increased for signals of high level.
1947C. W. Allen in Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. CVII. 391 All solar noise storms..in Figs. 2 and 3 coincide with near meridian passage of spots. 1974G. L. Verschuur Invisible Universe iii. 36 Sunspots also produce characteristic radio bursts, called storm bursts or bursts of type I. These are very short-lived intense pips of radio emission, each lasting only a fraction of a second, although thousands of these might be emitted every hour and the noise storm (a string of bursts) may last for days.
1933Practical Wireless II. 37/2 (heading) Noise suppression on the short waves. 1968IEEE Jrnl. Quantum Electronics IV. 644 (heading) Noise suppression in the Argon FM Laser.
▪ III. noise, v.|nɔɪz|
Also 5–7 noyse, 5 noyce, 6 noyz.
[f. noise n., or ad. OF. noisier, noiser, to make a noise, to quarrel, wrangle.]
1. trans. To report, rumour, spread (abroad). Now somewhat rare.
a. In phr. it is noised that, etc.
c1400Destr. Troy 1173 Hit was noiset anon þat a noumbur hoge Of Grekes were gedret. 1465Paston Lett. II. 206 It is noyced here that my Lord of Norffolk hathe taken partye in thes mater. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. x. 197 Hit is noysed that ye loue quene Gueneuer. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 126 The Frenche kyng..caused it to be noysed that he would besege the toune of Valencyen. 1599Warn. Faire Wom. ii. 786 Tis noysd at London, that a marchant's slain. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 201 It was noised abroad that Mr. Valiant-for-truth was taken with a Summons. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 506 It was noised abroad that he had more real power to help and hurt than many nobles.
b. In ordinary passive use.
c1400Destr. Troy 12271 The noy of þat noble was noyset thurgh the ost. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. ii. v. 99 He made wordes to be noysed about. 1535Coverdale 1 Chron. xiv. 17 And Dauids name was noysed out in all londes. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 228 Rumour was noysed abrode, that Themperour shoulde secretly mynde warre. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. 62 That of the battell against the Tarquinians..was presently noised at Rome. 1665Manley Grotius Low-C. Wars 431 These things, as soon as they were noysed through Brabant [etc.]. 1744Ozell Brantome's Sp. Rhodom. 78 Our other Man retir'd, for the Thing began to be nois'd abroad. 1779in Hist. Pelham, Mass. (1898) 138, I think its Noised by some as if it was not Desired. 1879Butcher & Lang Odyssey 74 My true lord whose fame is noised abroad from Hellas to mid Argos.
c. In active use.
1463Paston Lett. II. 134 He noyseth and seyth,..ye have caused a mad woman to take apell a yens hym. 1470–85Malory Arthur xxi. i. 840 Where ye noyse [that] my lord Arthur is slayne & that is not so. 1555in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. xlvi. 142 And they have noyzed and bruted abrode most shamefull sklaunders. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 22 All-telling fame Doth noyse abroad Nauar hath made a vow. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. vi. Wks. 1851 III. 126 Noise it till ye be hoarse, that a rabble of Sects will come in. 1689G. Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. vi. 37 They so highly advance the Credit of a milk Diet, by noising it to be the sole grand sweetner of the Blood. 1896New York Weekly Witness 30 Dec. 13/2 The welcome cooled when we noised-about the object of our visit.
†2. To spread rumours or a report concerning (a person, etc.); esp. to defame, speak ill of. Obs.
1424Paston Lett. I. 17 The seyd Walter..in divers other maneres hath noysed and sklaundered the seyd William. 1447–8J. Shillingford Lett. (Camden) 87 To noyse and disslaundre the said citee. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. xlvi. 488 Euer this Corsabryn noysed her and named her that she was oute of her mynde. 1530Palsgr. 644/2, I noyse one, I gyve hym a name or brute, good or badde, je donne le bruit. He is noysed to be an yvell lyver.
†3.
a. With it: To clamour, cry out. Obs. rare.
1662Hickeringill Distr. Innoc. Wks. 1716 I. 291 Thus did they furiously noise it against our Saviour.., Crucifie him.
†b. To force out of by clamour. Obs. rare.
a1734North Lives, Ld. Kpr. North (1826) I. 322 He was not a little concerned to see men noised out of their lives, as the twelve priests were, and that nothing could resist the fury of the people, that, like a hurricane, pursued them.
4. intr.
a. To talk loudly or much of a thing.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. met. vi. (1868) 7 Thanne comen alle mortal folk of noble sede; why noisen ye or bosten of youre eldres? c1475Partenay 1556 The peple merily ioyng As off the good rule noysed of thaim to. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. ii. ii. iii. 290 A plan, much noised of in those days,..has been devised. 1858― Fredk. Gt. v. v. (1872) II. 101 Much noised of in the..Prussian Books.
b. To make a noise or outcry.
a1400–50Alexander 4744 Vmquile he noys[is] as a nowte, as a nox quen he lawes. 1441Plumpton Corr. (Camden) p. lx, Upon whom the said misdoers followed,..noising & crying, Sley the Archbishop' Carles! a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 166 Quhen thir tydingis..came abrode and noyssed throw the countrie. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 488, I never fear'd they could, though noising loud And threatning nigh. a1814Forgery i. i. in New Brit. Theatre I. 435 Thou hast noised as much as if thou wert Sir Robert. 1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 4 Rook, crow, and jackdaw—noising loud, Fly to and fro to dreary fen. 1857Borrow Rom. Rye (1858) I. 110 What's the bird noising yonder, brother?
Hence noised ppl. a.; ˈnoising vbl. n. and ppl. a.; † ˈnoisingly adv.
1425Rolls of Parlt. IV. 298/2 Thourgh which langage and noysyng, I fele my name..emblemysshed. 1426Paston Lett. I. 26, I am foule and noysyngly vexed with hem, to my gret unease. 1453in Epist. Acad. Oxon. (1898) I. 320 The first publisheris of the seide sclandirful noysyng. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 521 He declareth you a true man to hym,..the sayde dislaunder and noysing notwithstanding. 1641Quarles Enchyrid. i. c, A victory whose noys'd renowne may fill the world with your eternall glory. 1656Burton's Diary (1828) I. 103 But the great noising argument is, That we are under Gospel dispensation. 1681H. More in Glanvill's Sadducismus i. Postscr. (1726) 1 Therefore he expected the Issue of that noised Story of the Spectre at Exeter. 1828Sporting Mag. XXI. 227 Hot-headed, hot-horsed, noising, coffee-housing friends. 1864Good Wds. 790/2 The latest books only, the noised books of the season. 1871Meredith H. Richmond xxxvi, Making the low noising of the leaves an intolerable whisper of secrecy. |