noisen.
/nɔɪz/, U.S. /nɔɪz/ I. Senses relating to sound or the disturbance caused by this.† 3.
1.
a. Sound; the aggregate of sounds occurring in a particular place or at a particular time; (also) disturbance caused by sounds, discordancy, (in early use) esp. disturbance made by voices; shouting, outcry; also in † to keep noise (obsolete).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > outcry or clamour
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun]
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 157 Þe bemere..makeð noise & lud drem.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 330 Hore meadlese nowse.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 29 Þe wreche peoddare, more noise [Corpus Cambr. nurð] he makeð to ȝeien is sope þen a riche mercer al his deorewurðe ware.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 81 Ȝunge childerne and wylde boyes..suede hire and scornede hire..mid noyse and cri.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8167 (MED) Of trompes & of tabors þe sarazins made þere So gret noyse þat cristinemen al destourbed were.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 3714 (MED) Many an other tente mo With gret noise..It threw to grounde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6535 He hard þe gret nois was þare Abute þis calf.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 11291 [A]t þat word was noyse & crie of þe Bretons þat stode nehi.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) v. 23 Of the noyse that sourded emonge the hethen men discordyng in theyr lawe.
a1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Adv.) (1843) 583 (MED) Cryying and yellyng and gowlyng y-fere, Tho noyse was wonder dredfull to here.
c1610–15 Life Holie Dympna in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 44 Ill brooking secular noise, and worldlie companie of the towne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 62 Who is that at the doore yt keeps all this noise ? View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. ii. 5 Obscured, and made weak; as the voyce of a man is in the noyse of the day.
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 286 In shady Privacy, free from the Noise And busles of the World.
1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane iv. i Thou hast thy sexes Virtues, Their Affectation, Pride, Ill Nature, Noise.
1730 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 173 Preferring quiet and solitude to the noise of a great town.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 379 A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it, wise.
1816 P. B. Shelley Dæmon of World in Alastor 83 Seek far from noise and day some western cave.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxv. 312 I wish you'd hold your noise!
1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ iv. 87 A..gust of babbling chatter came from forward, swept over the decks, and became faint, as if the unconscious ship..had left behind and for ever the foolish noise of turbulent mankind.
1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. xiv. 116 I was not frightened, but I made no noise. I did not wish to disturb him.
1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine (1959) 172 Come along, and please don't make so much noise. You'll disturb your mother.
1988 M. Spark Far Cry from Kensington i. 5 So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to the silence.
b. Any of various kinds of music characterized by use of dissonance or inharmonious noise, esp. loud distorted guitar, amplifier noise, feedback, etc. Frequently attributive. Cf. noise-rock n. at Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of
jazz-rock1915
rockabilly1956
rockaboogie1956
hard rock1959
folk-rock1963
soft rock1965
surf rock1965
acid rock1966
raga rock1966
progressive rock1968
Christian rock1969
cock rock1970
punk1970
punk rock1970
space rock1970
swamp rock1970
techno-rock1971
glitter rock1972
grunge1973
glam-rock1974
pub rock1974
alternative rock1975
dinosaur rock1975
prog rock1976
AOR1977
New Wave1977
pomp rock1978
prog1978
anarcho-punk1979
stadium rock1979
oi1981
alt-rock1982
noise1982
noise-rock1982
trash1983
mosh1985
emo-core1986
Goth1986
rawk1987
emo1988
grindcore1989
darkwave1990
queercore1991
lo-fi1993
dadrock1994
nu metal1995
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Feb. c20/1 The British rock producer Brian Eno recorded both bands for a seminal album of New York noise-band rock.
1989 Sound Choice Autumn 87/1 This LP packs a wallop..and keeps the noise/pigfuck crown firmly entrenched on Trench ‘N’ Go's mantle.
1999 Citizen (Gloucester) (Electronic ed.) 17 Dec. The Exit Club... Post-apocalyptic music for the disenfranchised generation, encompassing industrial, gabba, grebo, dark techno, noise and even '80s cheese.
2. As a count noun.
a. A sound that is characteristic of a person, animal, or thing. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 42 (MED) He..drow him toward þe den bi his dogges noyce.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 275 (MED) Þe hestes of schrewes and þe noyse of þe wombe beeþ in oon place.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 124 (MED) Take þe arme nye þe elbowe & meue it liȝtlye hider & þider to þat þu here þe soune oþer þe noise of þe bone.
c1450 Treat. Fishing in J. McDonald et al. Origins of Angling (1963) 143 Þe noyse of houndes & blastes of hornes.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxij That noise..whan a man doeth rattle or shake together a nomber of dead mens bones.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 1463 A crashe, the noise of a thing that is broken. Fragor.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 A buzzing noise of Bees their Ears alarms. View more context for this quotation
1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 31 One would think, that every Letter was wrote with a Tear, every Word was the Noise of a breaking Heart.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 315 A soft Noise of Water distilling by Drops into a Bason.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 28 The noise which the snail makes in moving the water.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott (rev. ed.) iv, in Poems (new ed.) I. 85 Thro' the noises of the night She floated down to Camelot.
1850 R. Browning Bishop Blougram 19 When dinner's done, And body gets its sop and holds its noise And leaves soul free a little.
1895 T. Hardy Jude vi. xi. 515 From a distance came voices; and an apparent noise of persons stamping.
1910 E. M. Forster Howards End i. 2 I heard the noise of croquet balls.
1988 M. Gee Grace vi. 86 Outside the window there are summer noises; birdsong, leaves scratching the grass.
b. A sound of any kind, esp. a loud, harsh, or unpleasant one.In this and other senses frequently in to make (more rarely †keep) a noise.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > sound
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?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 187 (MED) In þat vale heren men often tyme grete tempestes and thondres & grete murmures & noyses.
a1450 (?1409) St. Patrick's Purgatory (Royal) 59 (MED) Þe priour taught me to say this prayer..when y herd ony noyse þat y shuld be a fered of.
1455 J. Gresham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 126 They sette an hous on fyer..and cryed and mad an noyse as though they had be sory for þe fyer.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxiii. 68 The water..made suche a noyse that it myght be herde .x. leges of.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcv By the noyes of a spanyell there was on a night a man espied and taken.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 73 b The tackling.., with the great force of the winde, made such a terrible noyse, and was so fearefull to heare.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 196 We tooke some rest,..but with such feare, as wee were ready to flie upon the least noise.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 12 At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth Of theeves and murderers.
1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 124 By the noise of Trumpets and beating up of Drums.
1684 J. Harington Grove 19 in Grecian Story So us'd to th' bleating Noys, that Funeral-Knell.
1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxvi. 185 Gunpowder when it takes Fire in a Cannon..makes such a prodigious Noise.
a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. 286 Zounds, sir, don't keep such a noise about your boots, but rather take mine, so you will but let us sleep.
1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey ii. 23 A noise is heard like the coming of a thousand chariots.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxii. 338 A great party of us were on deck smoking and making a noise.
1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xxii. 258 The noise had brought Dejah Thoris to the door of her apartment.
1990 D. Ackerman Nat. Hist. Senses iv. 188 The noises that irritate us are sounds loud or spiky enough to be potentially damaging to the ear.
c. colloquial. to make a noise like——: to pretend to be——.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > imitate the sound of
to make a noise like——1902
1902 E. W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden & Mr. Paul 274 ‘Climb a tree, and make a noise like a nut,’ I says.
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond v. 126 Make a noise like a sturgeon, and he'll think it's caviare.
1959 F. J. Sterling Wake of Wahoo 88 Why don't you make a noise like a depth charge and go off?
1996 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 16 Feb. 11 If you don't have many squirrels in your area there is an easy way to attract them. You just sit up in a tree and make a noise like a nut.
d. Theatre. noises off: sound effects produced offstage. Also in singular and in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > stage effect
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1924 H. 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.
1937 N. Marsh Vintage Murder xi. 122 ‘And what..is Scotland Yard's part in the proceedings?’ ‘Noises off, Mr Ackroyd,’ replied Alleyn good-humouredly.
1949 F. 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.
1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 161 We are simply noises off..down there in the villages.
a. A pleasant or melodious sound. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun]
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [noun] > a pleasant sound
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c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 131 (MED) Alle þe queristres in þat qwer..fast gon þei cri; Þe noyse was good.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 79 Than doth the nyghtyngale hir myght To make noyse and syngen blythe.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 367 (MED) What noyse is all this? the erthe and the eyer is ful of melodye.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 101 Nevir suetar noys wes hard with levand man Na maid this mirry gentill nychtingaill.
1532 Romaunt Rose in Wks. G. Chaucer f. cxxxv/2 The water in rennyng Gan make a noyse ful lykyng.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M4v There was an heauenly noise..Like as it had bene many an Angels voice, Singing.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 30 It ceas'd: 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. Also in extended use. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band
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1558 in J. Nichols Progress Queen Elizabeth I. 39 Nere unto Fanchurch was erected a scaffolde richely furnished, whereon stode a noyes of instrumentes.
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. iv. (song) Then I wish'd for a noyse Of crack-halter Boyes, On Those hempen strings to be twanging.
1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. B4v Oh that we had a noyse of musitions to play to this anticke as we goe.
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. iii, in Wks. I. 557 The smell of the venison, going through the street, will inuite one noyse of fidlers, or other. View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Dryden Secret-love iii. i. 31 I hear him coming, and a whole noise of Fiddles at his heels.
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. i I cou'd as soon suffer a whole Noise of Flatterers at a Great Man's Levee.
4. In plural. Conventional remarks or speech-like sounds made to express a particular emotion or quality. Chiefly in to make noises: to make remarks or comments (esp. of a specified kind). Occasionally in singular.
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)]
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1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. i. §4 142 ‘Thank you so much,’ she said... I fancy I made polite noises.
1956 N. Marsh Off with his Head (1957) v. 91 I suppose I ought to make a polite noise.
1971 Guardian 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.
1988 Trout & Salmon June 50/2 Noises have been made in Parliament and there is sterling work being done by the various conservation bodies to bring about sane levels of cropping.
5. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to make (some) noise: to applaud or cheer; to show loud appreciation for someone or something, esp. as part of a crowd at a concert, sporting event, etc. Usually in imperative, esp. as an exhortation by an announcer, host, master of ceremonies, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > applaud [verb (intransitive)]
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > rejoice or exult [verb (intransitive)] > make sounds of rejoicing or exultation > shout for joy or cheer
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1950 Indianapolis News 25 Sept. 16/7 If we score, make some noise. If the other team scores, get up and cheer our team.
1999 Rolling Stone (Electronic ed.) 13 May 30 With their synchronized headbanging..and stage patter (‘Make some noise, New York!’), they seemed to recall the hairmetal era.
2007 Global Broadcast Database (Nexis) 5 Oct. Let's make noise for America's new 5th grade super stars.
2014 Forward (Electronic ed.) 8 Aug. ‘Everybody make some noise for the bride and groom, Mi-chael and Mi-lana!’ Benjamin announces in English.
II. Extended uses.† 8. without noise: without display or ostentation; privately. Obsolete.
6. Strife, contention; a quarrel. Now English regional.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun]
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c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) 462 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 17 (MED) Josep preide Marie suete þat Jesus wolde is noise lete.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 (MED) Efter þet strif and þe cheaste, comþ þe noyse and þe cheaste.
c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2732 He that entremeteth hym of the noyse or stryf of another man is lyk to hym that taketh an hound by the erys.
1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 204/2 Considere the gret noyse that dayli goth uppon the Se by oure enemyes.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. cxix. f. cxli/1 Neuer to haue noyse with a nother it is angels lyfe.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 25 Þe devoute soule..wiþdrawiþ him fer fro seculer noyce.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 248/1 Noyse, frayeng, castille.
c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 248 Gif any..drink drunkin and mak noyese and stryfe.
1812 Murphy Delany's Feast 12 Hullo! what's all this noise about? To the watch-house you must go, sir.
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 73 ‘There was a great noise in the house’; ‘I shall get a noise for this.’
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 45/2 But if he can turn a poor gal off, as soon as he tires of her, he begins to have noises with her.
a1903 D. W. Lewin in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 290/2 [Kent] I saw there was goin' to be a noise.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 206/2 Owld Meg an' 'er fayther's evvin wun o' thir noises agin.
7. † a. Common talk, rumour, report. Also: slander. Obsolete.† b. Repute, reputation. Obsolete.† d. Distinction, note. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6383 He let caste þis traitour in þe eueninge late At an fenestre in temese, noise [v.r. nouse] vorto abate.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 287 (MED) By þe..cry sprang out tiþynges and noyse of þe kynges deþ.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 3971 To me it is gret hevynesse, That the noyse so fer is go, And the sclaundre.
1462 J. Gloys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 250 Þer is gret noyse of this revell þat was don in Suffolk be Yeluerton and Jeney.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 977 (MED) Þei shullen preche þe trinite, And the noise of hem shal wende In eche countre to þe worldes ende.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccliv. 571 The castell..the whiche the Gauntoyse hadde brente, as the noyse ranne.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 92 The noyse of the death of King James divulgat,..the hartes of men begane to be disclossed.
1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 179 All agree in the noise of more plotts.
1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1720) I. 423 The Noise that ran of the magnificent Preparations..design'd by the Marquess.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶1 The Noise of this intended Marriage soon reached Theodosius.
1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VII. 294 The noise of this accident was immediately propagated in all parts.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) There's a purty noise 'bout th'old Jack Hill's wive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun]
nameeOE
talec1175
fame?c1225
lose1297
creancec1330
stevenc1374
opinionc1384
credencec1390
recorda1393
renowna1400
reputationc1400
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noisea1470
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existimationa1538
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estimate1597
pass1601
reportage1612
vibration1666
suffrage1667
rep1677
face1834
odour1835
rap1966
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 381 Bycause of that noyse and fame that thou haste.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 123 (MED) Thou has an yll noys of stelyng of shepe.
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms lxxxix. 16 Through thy righteousness have they a pleasant fame and noyce.
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. O3 Myn ill noise makes [me] worthey that all the wordes ill saide againste them be vnto me attributede.
c. to make a noise in the world: to achieve general notoriety or renown.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > be or become eminent [verb (intransitive)]
shinec900
to get (also make) oneself a nameOE
blazea1387
flourisha1387
resound1562
to fame ita1625
to make a noise in the world1662
to make (familiarly to cut) a figure1691
to set the Thames on fire1720
star1815
lionize1834
to make a name for oneself1997
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines 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.
1685 Bp. G. Burnet Let. from Rome in Trav. (1687) ii. 42 Those publick scandals that make a noise in the World.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 438 Such persons as have made a noise in the world.
1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 191 The first of these, The Tale of a Tub, has made much noise in the world.
1825 J. H. Payne Mazeppa in America's Lost Plays (1940) V. 201 I want to make a noise in the world, to astonish 'em all. I want the whole castle to be in commotion.
1846 J. H. Ingraham Young Artist & Bold Insurgent v. 26 I wonder who this young American painter can be, who makes so much noise in the world.
1896 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing 115 Our views appear to be making a noise in the world. Everything is preparing for your volumes.
1969 B. Head When Rain Clouds Gather xii. 185 The Solomons made the most noise in the world, hopping from one international conference to another.
1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan (1992) vi. 105 It's..the ones whose careers still have some heat under them, who are currently making some noise in the world.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > worthy of notice
notablenessc1450
particularity1570
conspicuity1601
of remarka1618
remarkableness1623
conspicuousness1661
noise1670
figure1692
observableness1727
remarkability1838
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > [noun]
hereworda1100
famec1290
lose1297
renownc1330
namecouthhead1340
noblessec1350
namec1384
reputationc1390
emprisea1393
renomeea1393
celebrity?c1400
enpressc1400
notec1400
renowneec1430
flavourc1449
honestnessa1450
bruita1470
renome?1473
famosity1535
famousness1548
renownedness1596
celebration1631
rumour1638
notedness1661
noise1670
distinction1699
eminence1702
éclat1742
baya1764
kudos1831
lionhood1833
lionism1835
lionship1837
lionization1841
stardom1865
spotlight1875
réclame1883
stellardom1883
the big cheesea1910
big time1910
star billing1910
starring1913
megastardom1981
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 201 They were persons of no great noise [It. con pochissima brigata], but resolute, modest, courteous.
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the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adverb] > unobtrusively
without noisea1393
unobtrusively1788
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2142 (MED) He withoute noise or bost Al priveli..his swevene tolde.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 887 Tysbe ryst up withouten noyse or bost.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxiiijv She would be buried without any pompe or noyse.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxv. §3. 595 After this time Ezekia had rest, and spending without noyse that addition which God had made vnto his life.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 110 They were married on Shrove-Sunday..but without any noyse.
1735 A. Pope Epit. R. Digby in Wks. II. 9 Good without noise, without pretension great.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 225 There they lived on, those New England people,..on and on without noise, keeping up tradition.
9.
a. Scandal, controversy, fuss. Frequently with about. Cf. sense 7.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
teleeOE
folk-leasinga1000
tolec1000
wrayingc1000
missaw?c1225
slanderc1290
disclanderc1300
famationc1325
noisec1325
skander1338
missaying1340
misspeecha1375
slanderingc1380
biting1382
defaminga1400
filtha1400
missaya1400
obloquya1438
oblocution?a1439
juroryc1440
defamationa1450
defamea1450
forspeaking1483
depravinga1500
defamya1513
injury?1518
depravation1526
maledictiona1530
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
infamation1533
insectationa1535
calumning1541
calumniation?1549
abuse1559
calumnying1563
calumny1564
belying?1565
illingc1575
scandalizing1575
misparlance?1577
blot1587
libelling1587
scandal1596
traducement1597
injurying1604
deprave1610
vilifying1611
noisec1613
disfame1620
sycophancy1622
aspersion1633
disreport1640
medisance1648
bollocking1653
vilification1653
sugillation1654
blasphemya1656
traduction1656
calumniating1660
blaspheming1677
aspersing1702
blowing1710
infamizing1827
malignation1836
mud-slinging1858
mud-throwing1864
denigration1868
mud-flinging1876
dénigrement1883
malignment1885
injurious falsehood1907
mud-sling1919
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
trash-talking1974
c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 38 The great rumor, slaunder, & full noyse of your tenants..att they shold be untrew peopell.
1780 S. Johnson Let. 8 Apr. (1992) III. 231 Dr. Percy, notwithstanding all the noise of the newspapers, has had no literary loss.
1823 Ld. Byron Let. 29 Oct. (1981) XI. 66 Colonel Fitz Gibbon..has eloped from Ireland with the wife of a friend; the affair makes much noise.
1846 T. B. Macaulay Let. 7 Jan. (1977) IV. 284 The noise made by this letter will go down, as all noise goes down, in a short time. Any step on my part would keep up a sensation which had better be suffered to die.
1955 Times 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.?’
1992 E. Pearce Election Rides xv. 148 The Independent headline, down-paged by noise about Libya.
b. to make (also †keep) a noise: to cause a stir; to become the object of general notice and comment.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > have reputation [verb (intransitive)] > be much talked about
to make (also keep) a noise1645
to have one's name up1789
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove [verb (intransitive)] > express loud or public disapproval
to make (also keep) a noise1645
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. iii. 5 The News that keeps greatest noise here now, is the return of Sir Walter Raleigh.
1677 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. V. 36 Lord Burghley's chalange sent by Sir Scroope Howe makes a great deal of noyse.
1707 J. Addison Present State War in Wks. (1766) III. 258 Blenheim was followed by a summer that makes no noise in the war.
1788 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 275 The capture of a Privateer makes more noise taken in the Channel, than a Frigate..afar off.
1822 Mem. Wernerian Soc. Edinb. 4 343 The plant commonly known by the name of the fly-fungus (from its property of destroying flies when steeped in milk), has made some noise of late on the Continent.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. ii. 107 In 1596, David Black..delivered a sermon, which made much noise.
1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae vii. 214 He means the announcing of so important an event should make a louder noise, like a thunderclap.
c. to make a noise about: to make an outcry; to talk much or loudly about a thing.
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the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > protest against [verb (transitive)]
biremec1200
to cry against ——1382
to cry outc1385
reclaimc1449
reclaim1566
to exclaim at, on, upon1583
to exclaim against1594
to cry on ——1609
disentreat1611
tax1614
deprecatea1643
to make a noise about1668
protest1887
1668 W. Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington in Wks. (1720) II. 163 Many Persons in England..had made a Noise about the Marine Treaty.
c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 300 For all the great noise that is made about it, there is but little true faith in the world.
1753 Scots Mag. 15 67/1 The French made a great deal of noise about advantages they had gained.
1782 Let. conc. Ess. Compar. Anat. 9 in Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) Anatomists have made a noise about the different structures of the same part.
1822 C. P. Clinch Spy in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIV. 100 Aye, aye, captain, we've had noise enough made about that—let's say no more till the time comes.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xxii. 248 ‘Did I?’ he repeated, bitterly. ‘You can't say I made much noise about it.’
1989 Financial Weekly 9 16/3 Doctors are making a noise about having to be aware of the cost of drugs.
10. the (also a) big noise: a person who or thing which is the object of general notice or comment; a person of note. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important
persona1425
personagec1460
colossus1605
satrapon1650
bigwig1772
big man1789
butt-cut1806
tallboy1820
buzz-wig1854
great or high shot1861
celestial1874
pot1880
big stuff1883
importance1886
big wheel1893
mandarin1907
the (also a) big noise1909
hotty1910
big boy1918
biggie1926
hotshot1933
wheel1933
eminence1935
top hat1936
big or great white chief1937
Mr Big1940
big kahuna1966
1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock vii. 153 A lot of people are beginning to think that Teddy's a mere noise.]
1909 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 9 Oct. 14/2 The ‘Big noise’ is the ‘Mainspring’ of the ‘Whole works’, as you like.
1927 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Feb. (1938) 506 Drill Parades bi-weekly when a big noise draws near—Sir Sam.
1932 ‘Spindrift’ Yankee Slang 47 The Governor of a jail is officially the warden; to the crook he is the big shot, big stick, big noise.
1957 M. Kennedy Heroes of Clone i. v. 50 Say you don't want him. You're the big noise here.
1985 Audio Visual Feb. 27/1 Chiara Boeri..runs the computer graphics department at the big new noise in Parisian image production—Computer Video Film.
2002 Independent (Nexis) 7 Feb. (Sport section) 7 When the British were big noises round here, they persuaded 40 Maori chiefs to sign a treaty effectively surrendering their sovereignty.
11. North American slang. Nonsense, foolishness; a stupid or contemptible statement or idea.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1920 E. Haslett Luck on Wing v. 105 Where do you get the noise of firing at a friendly plane.
1963 T. I. Rubin Sweet Daddy What a bird brain—went in for this horoscope noise an' all.
1997 D. Carpenter Banjo Lessons ii. 156 Come on in, she says, all smiles. Hell with that noise, I says. I know the score.
12.
a. In scientific and technical use: random or irregular fluctuations or disturbances which are not part of a signal (whether the result is audible or not), or which interfere with or obscure a signal; oscillations with a randomly fluctuating amplitude over a usually continuous range of frequencies. Also (in extended use): distortions or additions which interfere with the transfer of information.ground, random, red, surface, thermal, white noise, etc.: see the first element; see also signal-to-noise ratio n. at signal n. Compounds 3.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > signal > noise or interference
interference1887
noise1923
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > signal > [noun] > unwanted part of signal
interference1887
noise1923
1923 Telegr. & Telephone Jrnl. 9 119/2 The variations in noise were plotted, and their effect at times was to reduce the intelligibility to 20 or 30 per cent.
1932 F. E. Terman Radio Engin. vi. 207 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.
1940 V. K. Zworykin & G. A. 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.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 262 In all electronic components and recording or transmission media the signal must compete with some degree of background noise.
1974 Nature 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.
1990 Brain 113 88 In order to remove high-frequency noise, the data from each camera were low-pass filtered with a modified Butterworth filter.
b. In non-technical contexts: irrelevant or superfluous information or activity, esp. that which distracts from what is important.
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1951 M. McLuhan Let. 22 June (1987) 227 Check on the stench from the collective ad noise.
1996 Internet World July 70/3 Unwanted commercial messages add ‘noise’ to mailboxes already overflowing with electronic correspondence.
2001 Independent 3 July (Tuesday Review section) 2/1 In my experience, Prozac does not create happiness. It can, however, reduce the ‘noise’ of anger, sorrow, fear, etc, to enable a steadier gaze at the root problems.
Compounds
C1.
a.
noise abatement n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > sound-proofing or conditioning > [noun] > control of noise
noise abatement1923
noise control1934
1923 Health 2 438 A real want, a very great want, and a very immediate want is a Noise-Abatement Society.
1994 Madison (New Jersey) Eagle 8 Sept. 3/1 The Harding Township Committee voted..to urge the DOT to install noise abatement walls for the three-mile stretch of I-287 that runs through Harding.
noise control n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > sound-proofing or conditioning > [noun] > control of noise
noise abatement1923
noise control1934
1934 Discovery Dec. 346 As soon as noise control became desired, it was necessary to measure noise according to some scale.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Property Suppl.) 4/6 Hacan is calling for stricter policing of night-flight restrictions and tougher noise controls.
noise level n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound > noise level
noise level1925
1925 Sci. 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.
1993 Arctic Circle Summer 28/2 He further suggests that the noise level may result in temporary or possible permanent hearing damage and in nausea induced by infra-sound.
noise measurement n.
ΚΠ
1932 Science 19 Feb. 210/2 It is believed that further progress in the science of noise measurement is necessary before effective standardization of this phase of the subject can be completed.
1957 Physical Rev. 108 1642/2 Noise measurements have been made on a three-level, 2800-Mc/sec solid state maser.
1988 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator 19 Apr. b1/3 Noise measurements taken last summer registered more than 100 decibels.
noise meter n.
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1931 Proc. IRE 19 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.
1963 Science 8 Nov. 9/1 (advt.) It consists of a Bias Supply and Noise Meter, Window Amplifier, Vacuum Chamber, and a Precision Pulse Generator.
1998 N.Y. Times 3 Dec. a30/1 Inspectors..bearing noise meters monitored a reading of the names of people who had died.
noise reduction n.
ΚΠ
1931 Proc. IRE 19 1763 The noise reduction advantage of the arrays..is some 15 decibels over that of a nondirectional antenna.
1991 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 19/1 The CT-900S is pretty good value even forgetting the inclusion of Dolby Labs' latest noise reduction circuitry.
b.
noise-free adj.
ΚΠ
1934 Discovery Dec. 348/1 Standard practice in noise-free construction is now available for architects.
1990 Outdoor Life Apr. 20/2 The obvious advantage of the..system is that it allows unlimited, inexpensive, noise-free practice with the same handgun that you use for plinking, target shooting and protection.
noise-measuring adj.
ΚΠ
1930 Science 14 Nov. 496/1 A portable noise-measuring instrument has been devised for preliminary work, and a number of measurements of air-screw noises have been made.
1969 Proc. Royal Soc. 311 527 Results so far..are providing data for areas of the world where there are no noise-measuring observatories.
2001 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 25 Sept. (Local section) 17 a Bill Holliday..played a tape of constant static-sounding noise on a portable player while holding a noise-measuring device.
C2.
noise and number index n. a quantity used in evaluating aircraft noise in terms of its intensity and frequency of occurrence; abbreviated NNI.
ΚΠ
1963 Final Rep. Comm. Probl. Noise 218 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2056) XXII. 657 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).
1971 Physics Bull. Nov. 660/3 An exposure index for aircraft noise has been developed from this survey, called the noise and number index.
1988 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 29/3 The term NNI is Noise and Number Index; 45 NNIs would interrupt a conversation, and 60 NNIs would wake the sleeping, but not the dead.
noise bar n. a narrow horizontal band of interference in a television or video picture.
ΚΠ
1984 What Video? Aug. 20/4 By pressing the Pause button a couple of times it is possible to move the offending noise bar to the top of the TV screen.
1990 Video Maker July 35/1 It's a two head design, so it gives a fair number of noise bars when in the visible search and still frame modes.
noise barrier n. a wall or other barrier designed to dampen sound; esp. (in later use) one at the side of a road.
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1954 H. J. Otto Elem.-school Organization & Admin. (ed. 3) xv. 626 Some type of noise barrier should be provided to prevent the use of outdoor classroom areas from disturbing nearby classes.
1994 Madison (New Jersey) Eagle 8 Sept. 3/3 DOT officials said they scheduled Wednesday's meeting to discuss..the proposed locations of noise barriers along I-287.
noise cancellation n. the reduction or elimination of noise (chiefly in senses 1a and 12a); spec. (more fully active noise cancellation) the cancellation of unwanted sound using generated sound waves that are exactly out of phase with the sound waves to be cancelled.
ΚΠ
1968 Brit. Patent 1,124,861 1/2 It is..an object of the present invention to provide a data store arrangement..which achieves the noise cancellation advantages of a two element per bit organization, while using only one element per bit for data storage.
1993 World & I Mar. 187/1 They fitted noise cancellation (antinoise) devices to their loading equipment.
2000 Pop. Sci. Dec. 27/3 Honda's Japan-only Accord station wagon is the first to use active noise cancellation instead of body reinforcements to quiet low-frequency noise.
noise-cancelling adj. (of a device, instrument, software, etc.) designed to reduce or eliminate extraneous or unwanted noise, now esp. through the generation of cancelling sound waves (cf. noise cancellation n.); esp. in noise-cancelling earphones, noise-cancelling headphones, etc.
ΚΠ
1943 N.Y. Times 12 Dec. e9/5 Tiny washers..have helped the United States Signal Corp solve one of the many problems involved in developing a new, noise-canceling lip microphone for the Marine Corps.
1967 H. J. Jones in L. S. Ettre & A. Zlatkis Pract. Gas Chromatogr. vi. 356 The noise cancelling signal is, in effect, subtracted from the analytical signal so that the effects of tape speed variation during recording and playback are minimized.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 216 The airline..passes out noise-canceling headphones on some flights to enhance the movie experience.
2021 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Feelgood section) 15 If you're listening through earphones often, it's worth investing in a pair of custom-fitted and noise-cancelling earphones.
noise check n. a check that the noise produced by a rally car does not exceed a certain level.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > race testing car quality, skill, etc. > test or stage
noise check1960
special stage1961
1960 S. Turner Rallying vi. 68 One other sort of check which you must treat with respect is a noise check.
2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 13 Oct. (Features section) 65 It [sc. a car] passed all our audible noise checks with flying colours.
noise contour n. a line or surface (imaginary or on a graph, etc.) joining points where the noise level is the same.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound > noise contour
noise contour1968
1968 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 263 350 Directionality patterns of a drawtwist machine are shown as octave band noise contours in figures 5 and 6.
1998 Chartered Surveyor Monthly May 36 (caption) Noise contours of Manchester airport show that residents in the flight path suffer most.
noise factor n. Electronics a quantity representing the additional noise introduced by a signal-processing device such as an amplifier.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > signal > [noun] > unwanted part of signal > types of > quantity introduced by processor
noise factor1936
noise figure1944
1936 Sci. Monthly Nov. 473/1 Even in these circuits, however, the noise factor still sets limits of attenuation and amplification.
1952 Wireless World June 224/1 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.
1995 Instruments & Exper. Techniques 38 354/1 The one-octave microwave planar detector has the following parameters in the 4.2–8.4 GHz band: a noise factor of 1.25 ± 0.25 dB; a gain of 43.5 ± 1.5 dB [etc.].
noise figure n. Electronics = noise factor n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > signal > [noun] > unwanted part of signal > types of > quantity introduced by processor
noise factor1936
noise figure1944
1944 Proc. IRE 32 420/2 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.
1990 OnSat 3 June 6/1 One thing..which has pretty much surmounted most dish efficiency problems, is the development of HEMT Ku-band LNBs with noise figures of 2.3 dB and below.
noise filter n. Electronics a filter for selectively reducing noise.
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band-pass filter1922
slope filter1937
comb filter1941
state variable1942
noise filter1960
notch filter1962
1960 McGraw-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.
1967 E. 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.
1991 Unix World Jan. 155/1 The Smart-UPS 400 features sinewave output, surge suppression, noise filters to protect data, [etc.].
noise footprint n. the ground area beneath a flying aircraft over which the noise exceeds a specified level.
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1971 Aeronaut. Jrnl. 75 596/1 The noise footprint on the ground is restricted to a small area beneath the aircraft.
1986 Aviation Week 20 Jan. 41/1 The aircraft is expected to have basically the same noise footprint as the passenger version.
noise gate n. Electronics a device which sends an electrical signal to halt the passage of another signal when it falls below some threshold value, used esp. in sound recording to mute all noise below a certain volume.
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1983 Broadcasting (Nexis) 4 Apr. 47 Expander/noise gate/keyer, limiter/compressor/voice-over, parametric equalizer, quad low and high impedance mic preamp [etc.].
1999 Personal Computer World Dec. 102/2 Logic Gold now comes with 26 audio effects... These include a noise gate, compressor, expander, overdrive, reverb and tape delay.
noise gating n. Electronics the process of, or facility for, functioning in the manner of a noise gate.
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1976 Gramophone Aug. 353/2 The engineer has made a note of the frequency correction, artificial reverberation, compression, noise-gating, stereo panning etc. he wanted to apply to each track.
1987 Making Music July 4 Most interesting seems to be the REX50 digital multi-FX... So what can you do with it? Well, there are reverbs, gated reverbs, noise gating, [etc.].
noise generation n. the generation of noise, esp. deliberately for use in various acoustic and electronic applications.
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1937 Discovery Dec. 392/2 Noise generation, transmission, and suppression.
1986 Keyboard Player Apr. 16/1 JVC has included noise generation to imitate the sound of the breath attack.
1995 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 449 177 The scattering of harmonic gusts..is a model problem which is relevant to the prediction of noise generation by rotating turbomachinery.
noise generator n. something that generates noise (chiefly in sense 12a); spec. a device or circuit that generates synthetic noise for use in various acoustic and electronic applications.
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1948 Science 30 Jan. 123/2 (caption) A is the basic noise-generating circuit... Three of these noise generators are used.
1980 Sci. Amer. Oct. 74/1 Each phoneme is generated by a particular setting of various tone generators, noise generators and acoustic filters.
1996 C. Jenkins in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 55/1 Noise generators create an apparently random hissing which can be filtered into different types such as white, red or pink.
noise limiter n. Electronics a circuit or device for selectively reducing certain types of noise, esp. by momentarily reducing the output or the gain during peaks of amplitude greater than the desired signal.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > device for reducing noise
noise limiter1939
1939 Wireless World 5 Jan. 15 (heading) Noise limiters suppressing interference in the receiver.
1995 RV Times Sept. 66/2 The radio has other performance features, such as..automatic noise limiter.
noise margin n. Electronics the maximum noise signal that can be accepted by a logic gate without triggering an unwanted change of state at the gate output.
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1964 Proc. IEEE 52 1566/1 Noise margin will be defined then as the amplitude of extraneous signal that can be added to an existing input level before the output level breaks the boundary of either max zero or min one set for the system.
1987 J. Millman & A. Grabel Microelectronics (ed. 2) vi. 223 The quantities NMH and NML correspond to the noise margins for V(1) and V(0), respectively... The significance of the noise margin is that an unwanted signal of amplitude less than NM will not alter the logic state.
1997 Electronic Engin. Times 30 June 10/5 He was confident that noise margins of 6 dB could be preserved.
noise money n. now historical a special payment made to persons involved in sounding fog signals.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > extra payments > for specific working conditions
noise money1883
dirty money1897
hazard pay1935
danger money1942
dirt money1949
1883 Chambers's 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.
1999 National Trust Mag. Autumn 57 Souter's ear-shattering fog horns were so powerful that the lighthouse keepers were paid twopence an hour extra as ‘noise money’.
noise music n. a form of music originating among members of the Futurist movement, utilizing non-musical or dissonant sounds (often made on specially made instruments) and rejecting traditional notions of harmony and structure.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > discordant music
barber's music1660
noise music1946
1946 M. Graf Mod. Music xi. 203 Even the grotesque scions of the futuristic movement have some import..as protest against romantic sentiment... Noise music is the anti-pole of romantic music.
1984 C. Burdick et al. Contemp. Germany x. 261 Special forms of entertainment at the Cabaret Voltaire were the production of ‘noise-music’, with all varieties of instruments and simultaneous poetry in which sentences, sounds, and words from different texts and in different languages were simultaneously declaimed.
1997 Bloomington (Indiana) Voice 10 Apr. 19/2 The music..careens from edgy ballads to what approaches noise music.
noise pollution n. harmful or annoying noise in the environment.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise > as pollution
noise pollution1970
polluter1975
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > [noun] > other types of pollution
acid rain1845
air pollution1874
fallout1946
rainout1954
radiation1958
thermal pollution1965
light pollution1969
radioactivity1969
noise pollution1970
wash-off1979
1970 Britannica 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.
1970 Sci. 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).
2000 N.Y. Times 24 Nov. a12/2 He wanted it known that the air, water and noise pollution the factories produce is a curse on the neighbourhood.
noise-pop n. a type of popular music characterized by loud, distorted, or fuzzy guitar, but retaining a strong emphasis on melody; cf. sense 1b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music
a cappella1905
soundclash1925
marabi1933
doo-wop1958
filk1959
folk-rock1963
Liverpool sound1963
Mersey beat1963
Mersey sound1963
surf music1963
malombo1964
mbaqanga1964
easy listening1965
disco music1966
Motown1966
boogaloo1967
power pop1967
psychedelia1967
yé-yé1967
agitpop1968
bubblegum1968
Tamla Motown1968
Tex-Mex1968
downtempo1969
taarab1969
thrash1969
world music1969
funk1970
MOR1970
tropicalism1970
Afrobeat1971
electro-pop1971
post-rock1971
techno-pop1971
Tropicalia1971
tropicalismo1971
disco1972
Krautrock1972
schlager1973
Afropop1974
punk funk1974
disco funk1975
Europop1976
mgqashiyo1976
P-funk1976
funkadelia1977
karaoke music1977
alternative music1978
hardcore1978
psychobilly1978
punkabilly1978
R&B1978
cowpunk1979
dangdut1979
hip-hop1979
Northern Soul1979
rap1979
rapping1979
jit1980
trance1980
benga1981
New Romanticism1981
post-punk1981
rap music1981
scratch1982
scratch-music1982
synth-pop1982
electro1983
garage1983
Latin1983
Philly1983
New Age1984
New Age music1985
ambient1986
Britpop1986
gangster rap1986
house1986
house music1986
mbalax1986
rai1986
trot1986
zouk1986
bhangra1987
garage1987
hip-house1987
new school1987
old school1987
thrashcore1987
acid1988
acid house1988
acid jazz1988
ambience1988
Cantopop1988
dance1988
deep house1988
industrial1988
swingbeat1988
techno1988
dream pop1989
gangsta rap1989
multiculti1989
new jack swing1989
noise-pop1989
rave1989
Tejano1989
breakbeat1990
chill-out music1990
indie1990
new jack1990
new jill swing1990
noisecore1990
baggy1991
drum and bass1991
gangsta1991
handbag house1991
hip-pop1991
loungecore1991
psychedelic trance1991
shoegazing1991
slowcore1991
techno-house1991
gabba1992
jungle1992
sadcore1992
UK garage1992
darkcore1993
dark side1993
electronica1993
G-funk1993
sampladelia1994
trip hop1994
break1996
psy-trance1996
nu skool1997
folktronica1999
dubstep2002
Bongo Flava2003
grime2003
Bongo2004
singeli2015
1986 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 18 Apr. 5 Selections range from ‘industrial noise’ pop to classical and jazz and also include pop ‘underground classics’ such as Hawkwind.]
1989 Phoenix New Times (Nexis) 30 Aug. 90 The band's Geffen Records debut noise-pop epic Appetite for Destruction is platinum eight times over.
2001 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 19 Jan. There may always have been a folk element to The Delgados' boy/girl noisepop action.
noise-rock n. a type of rock music characterized by the use of dissonance or inharmonious noise, esp. loud distorted guitar, amplifier noise, feedback, etc. (cf. sense 1b).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of
jazz-rock1915
rockabilly1956
rockaboogie1956
hard rock1959
folk-rock1963
soft rock1965
surf rock1965
acid rock1966
raga rock1966
progressive rock1968
Christian rock1969
cock rock1970
punk1970
punk rock1970
space rock1970
swamp rock1970
techno-rock1971
glitter rock1972
grunge1973
glam-rock1974
pub rock1974
alternative rock1975
dinosaur rock1975
prog rock1976
AOR1977
New Wave1977
pomp rock1978
prog1978
anarcho-punk1979
stadium rock1979
oi1981
alt-rock1982
noise1982
noise-rock1982
trash1983
mosh1985
emo-core1986
Goth1986
rawk1987
emo1988
grindcore1989
darkwave1990
queercore1991
lo-fi1993
dadrock1994
nu metal1995
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. c20/6 Mr. Gordon's musical idiom ranges from a German-Expressionist march..to percussively articulated drones to frenzied noise-rock climaxes.
1999 Student Times (Dundee Univ. Students' Assoc.) 12 Mar. 11/2 Sebadoh's seventh album marks no radical departure for the band—they still do the lo-fi noise rock, loud guitar pop and lilting acoustic ballads they always did.
noise-shaping n. Electronics any of various processes which alter the frequency distribution of the noise associated with a signal; spec. a noise-reduction technique used in the quantization of analogue signals.
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1967 IEEE Trans. Automatic Control 12 596/1 Correlated noise was represented by passing 100 more Gaussian independent pseudorandom numbers through the noise shaping filter C(ẕ)/ D(ẕ) = 1/ [1 - 0.95ẕ−1.
1986 N. S. Jayant in T. C. Bartree Digital Communications viii. 325 One class of such high-quality coders is a DPCM system that includes pitch prediction and quantization error feedback for noise-shaping.
1993 New Scientist 13 Feb. 21/3 Gambit Audio of Uster, Switzerland, has developed a technique called advanced noise-shaping redither, a combination of dithering and noise-shaping.
noise spectrum n. the frequency spectrum of noise (in sense 12a), or of a component of an oscillation considered to be noise; (also) a frequency spectrum that is characteristic of noise, typically having a randomly fluctuating amplitude over a continuous range of frequencies.
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1941 Electronic Engin. 14 537/3 Signal-to-noise ratio is greater [for phase modulation] than for amplitude modulation..though it is less than for frequency modulation since the triangular noise spectrum effect is absent because noise itself phase modulates the carrier.
1990 Compact Disc 7 Aug. 37/3 A full-range noise-spectrum analysis showed that the noise energy (in approximately one-third-octave bands) was at a constant −130 d b up to 500 hz, rising slowly to −118 d b at 20,000 hz.
noise storm n. Astronomy 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.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar activity > [noun] > solar radiation
outburst1859
noise storm1947
solar wind1958
solar plasma1962
wind1966
1947 C. W. Allen in Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 107 391 All solar noise storms..in Figs. 2 and 3 coincide with near meridian passage of spots.
1995 Solar Physics Conf. 160 162 Since the onset of the noise storm is missed in these observations, an already disappeared source at 1446 MHz cannot be excluded.
noise suppression n. the suppression of noise, esp. in order to improve the quality of audio signals by selectively reducing noise in one or more frequency bands.
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1933 Pract. Wireless 2 37/2 (heading) Noise suppression on the short waves.
1991 Motorboat & Yachting June 99/3 The advantages are light weight, no corrosion, and good noise suppression—all at a price far less than that of stainless steel.
noise suppressor n. a device or circuit that attenuates or cuts off noise (sense 12a); spec. one designed to improve the quality of audio signals by selectively reducing noise in one or more frequency bands; cf. noise limiter n., squelch n. 4.
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1933 F. Preston in Newnes Compl. Wireless IV. 1377/2 Circuits incorporating ‘noise suppressor’ or ‘quiet automatic volume control’ (Q.A.V.C.) devices are being widely experimented with.
1995 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 29 June (Business & Finance section) 8 AvAero of Safety Harbor and Air France Industries have signed an agreement to market the AvAero Boeing 737 Hushkit, a jet engine noise suppressor.
noise temperature n. Physics a measure of the power per unit bandwidth of a source of white noise, defined as the temperature (in kelvins) at which the source would generate thermal noise at the same power per unit bandwidth.
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1948 R. V. Pound Microwave Mixers ii. 105 Noise-temperature test equipment resembles a complete supheterodyne receiver.
1990 OnSat 8 July 5/1 Footprint maps and system parameters such as LNB [= low noise block] noise temperature and antenna diameter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2022).
noisev.
/nɔɪz/, U.S. /nɔɪz/ 1. † b. to noise it: to clamour, cry out. Obsolete. rare.† c. transitive. To drive (a person or animal) out of a place by shouting or outcry. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. To make a noise or outcry. Now poetic and British regional.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > outcry or clamour
galstrec1230
huea1250
galec1386
noisea1393
clamourc1400
brawl1447
yammer1513
to noise it1663
hue-and-crya1734
beclamour1832
chi-hike1874
hullabaloo1936
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 3004 (MED) Ther is no cok to crowe day, Ne beste non which noise may.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 14v Clango, to noyse as trompes.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4744 (MED) He noys as a nowte, as a nox quen he lawes.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 166 Quhen thir tydingis..came abrode and noyssed throw the countrie.
c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. lx The said misdoers followed..noising & crying, ‘Sley the Archbishop Carles!’
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 485 I never fear'd they could, though noising loud And threatning nigh. View more context for this quotation
1814 Forgery i. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre I. 435 Thou hast noised as much as if thou wert Sir Robert.
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. ix. 110 What's the bird noising yonder, brother?
1879 Arch. 8 171 Don't keep noising about here.
1885 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1889) 374 I doan't like Drewry's Raw an' th' Skreeds, ther's alus sich an a many bairns noisin' aboot.
1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. II. 84 The cow was noisin' after her calf.
1983 R. Kelly Under Words 127 A sheen of light on the surface of the coffee..the plip plip of the filter still noising on the stove.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > outcry or clamour
galstrec1230
huea1250
galec1386
noisea1393
clamourc1400
brawl1447
yammer1513
to noise it1663
hue-and-crya1734
beclamour1832
chi-hike1874
hullabaloo1936
1663 E. Hickeringill Apol. Distressed Innocence in Wks. (1709) I. 291 Thus did they furiously noise it against our Saviour..Crucifie him, Crucifie him.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > outcry or clamour > drive with
clamour1646
noise1742
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 154 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.
1859 H. Green Knutsford iii. 51 The two bys [i.e. boys]..were in the kern, nyzing the brids away.
2. transitive. To spread as a report; to report, rumour. Also (in weakened use): to say, maintain. Frequently with about, abroad.
a. With anticipatory it and that-clause as complement, as it is noised that, etc.
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a1419 Let. in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1927) 22 75 (MED) It is so notory & so y noysed in all þis lordship þat þe seyde Jon Hullemore and Margarete beth þe nexte lawfull heires.
1465 R. Calle in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 311 It is noyced here þat my lord of Norfolk hathe taken partye in thes mater.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 270 Hit is noysed that ye love quene Gwenyvere.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1173 Hit was noiset anon þat a noumbur hoge Of Grekes were gedret.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxvi The Frenche kyng..caused it to be noysed that he would besege the toune of Valencyen.
1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 786 Tis noysd at London, that a marchant's slain.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 220 It was noised abroad that Mr. Valiant-for-truth was taken with a Summons.
1712 Sir R. Sutton Despatches 26 Dec. in A. N. Kurat Despatches of Sir Robert Sutton (1953) 153 It being noised abroad that my Imperial Mandates were sent to several parts of Asia and Europe.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 506 It was noised abroad that he had more real power to help and hurt than many nobles.
1862 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 27 Dec. 213/3 He had evidently made a good impression on the de Rondets, and it was soon noised about that Mademoiselle Marie had an especial predilection for Chevalier Bayard.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxviii. 423 When it became noised abroad in Avonlea that Anne Shirley had given up the idea of going to college and intended to stay home and teach there was a good deal of discussion over it.
1954 R. Davies Enthusiasms (1991) 46 It was noised about that he was their author.
1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 1 Dec. a21/1 It's not noised about, but this now-celebrated revolt against the Syrians might have been more of a civil war.
b. In passive.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)]
sowc888
blowc1275
dispeple1297
to do abroadc1300
fame1303
publyc1350
defamea1382
publisha1382
open?1387
proclaima1393
slandera1400
spreada1400
abroachc1400
throwc1400
to give outa1425
promote?a1425
noisec1425
publicc1430
noisec1440
divulgea1464
to put outc1475
skail1487
to come out witha1500
bruit1525
bruita1529
to bear out1530
divulgate1530
promulgate1530
propale?1530
ventilate1530
provulgate1535
sparple1536
sparse1536
promulge1539
disperse1548
publicate1548
forthtell1549
hurly-burly?1550
propagate1554
to set abroada1555
utter1561
to set forth1567
blaze1570
evulgate1570
scatter1576
rear?1577
to carry about1585
pervulgate1586
celebrate?1596
propalate1598
vent1602
evulge1611
to give forth1611
impublic1628
ventilate1637
disseminate1643
expose1644
emit1650
to put about1664
to send abroad1681
to get abroad1688
to take out1697
advertise1710
forward1713
to set abouta1715
circulate1780
broadcast1829
vent1832
vulgate1851
debit1879
float1883
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 3333 (MED) Sche..Dide a synne..Whiche noised was & kouþe þoruȝ þe heuene.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. v. 99 He made wordes to be noysed about.
a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 70 (MED) This thyng noised bi the Citee, she was outcast as advowteres.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xv. C And Dauids name was noysed out in all londes.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 12271 The noy of þat noble was noyset thurgh the ost.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxviij Rumour was noysed abrode, that Themperour shoulde secretly mynde warre.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §10. 74 That of the battaile against the Tarquinians..presently noised at Rome.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 431 These things, as soon as they were noysed through Brabant [etc.].
1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 78 Our other Man retir'd, for the Thing began to be nois'd abroad.
1779 in Hist. Pelham, Mass. (1898) 138 I think its Noised by some as if it was not Desired.
1817 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 166 This fanatical prediction being noised abroad, found many believers among the ignorant and credulous.
1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 74 My true lord whose fame is noised abroad from Hellas to mid Argos.
1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. v. 457 How the secrets of the committee have been noised about, I cannot understand.
1975 J. Gould in Oxf. Bk. Amer. Lit. Anecd. (1981) 162 This bit of shipboard gossip was noised around the floating community.
1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep ii. xviii. 139 You've tripped onto something that should not be noised about.
c. In active use with simple object, with direct speech, or with clause as object. Also intransitive: †to imply, mention in passing (obsolete).
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)]
sowc888
blowc1275
dispeple1297
to do abroadc1300
fame1303
publyc1350
defamea1382
publisha1382
open?1387
proclaima1393
slandera1400
spreada1400
abroachc1400
throwc1400
to give outa1425
promote?a1425
noisec1425
publicc1430
noisec1440
divulgea1464
to put outc1475
skail1487
to come out witha1500
bruit1525
bruita1529
to bear out1530
divulgate1530
promulgate1530
propale?1530
ventilate1530
provulgate1535
sparple1536
sparse1536
promulge1539
disperse1548
publicate1548
forthtell1549
hurly-burly?1550
propagate1554
to set abroada1555
utter1561
to set forth1567
blaze1570
evulgate1570
scatter1576
rear?1577
to carry about1585
pervulgate1586
celebrate?1596
propalate1598
vent1602
evulge1611
to give forth1611
impublic1628
ventilate1637
disseminate1643
expose1644
emit1650
to put about1664
to send abroad1681
to get abroad1688
to take out1697
advertise1710
forward1713
to set abouta1715
circulate1780
broadcast1829
vent1832
vulgate1851
debit1879
float1883
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 44 Therfore the wise man seith: I noyse nat..God al-oonly to be serued be wordes but be good deedis.
a1449 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 132 The seyde Bysshop Dean and Chapiter have noysed by their writynge not pleynly declared of divers thingis.
a1450 Complaint J. Brome in Warwickshire Antiquarian Mag. (1869) 4 186 (MED) Thay hau done..all the dispite that thay couth or myght..saing and noysing that the said John Brome is ayenst my lord.
1463 T. Playter in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 292 He noyseth and seyth..ye haue caused a mad woman to take apell a-yens hym.
1555 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlvi. 142 And they have noyzed and bruted abrode most shamefull sklaunders.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 22 All telling fame Doth noyse abroad Nauar hath made a Vow. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 24 Noise it till ye be hoarse; that a rabble of Sects will come in.
1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation vi. 37 They so highly advance the Credit of a milk Diet, by noising it to be the sole grand sweetner of the Blood.
1864 ‘Don P. Quærendo Reminisco’ Life in Union Army xviii. 128 For some were there who knew the facts, and noised them all around.
1896 N.Y. Weekly Witness 30 Dec. 13/2 The welcome cooled when we noised-about the object of our visit.
1988 J. Heller Picture This xiii. 127 Saskia that year filed suit for libel against those relatives of hers noising it about that she was living extravagantly.
2001 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 22 June 22 ‘OK,’ I noised, ‘if you can make it on your own, you can stay.’
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter > with strong feeling
noise?a1425
rave1716
gnatter1826
gush1864
to shout the odds1894
rant1908
steamroller1969
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. met. vi. 10 Thanne comen alle mortal folk of noble seed. Why noysen ye or bosten of your eldres?
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 83 Þei noise them-silf of þe goodnesse þat þei haue.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 78 Justiniane..in exile..noysed himself openly þat he schuld be emperour ageyn.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 220 Thy selfe to be sene and in suche fame, By þi name þus anoisyt & for noble holden.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. ii. iii. 113 A plan, much noised of in those days,..has been devised.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. v. 590 Much noised-of in the..Prussian Books.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak shame of, on, byc950
teleeOE
sayOE
to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000
belie?c1225
betell?c1225
missayc1225
skandera1300
disclanderc1300
wrenchc1300
bewrayc1330
bite1330
gothele1340
slanderc1340
deprave1362
hinderc1375
backbite1382
blasphemec1386
afamec1390
fame1393
to blow up?a1400
defamea1400
noise1425
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
malignc1450
to speak villainy of1470
infame1483
injury1484
painta1522
malicea1526
denigrate1526
disfamea1533
misreporta1535
sugill?1539
dishonest?c1550
calumniate1554
scandalize1566
ill1577
blaze1579
traduce1581
misspeak1582
blot1583
abuse1592
wronga1596
infamonize1598
vilify1598
injure?a1600
forspeak1601
libel1602
infamize1605
belibel1606
calumnize1606
besquirt1611
colly1615
scandala1616
bedirt1622
soil1641
disfigurea1643
sycophant1642
spatter1645
sugillate1647
bespattera1652
bedung1655
asperse1656
mischieve1656
opprobriatea1657
reflect1661
dehonestate1663
carbonify1792
defamate1810
mouth1810
foul-mouth1822
lynch1836
rot1890
calumny1895
ding1903
bad-talk1938
norate1938
bad-mouth1941
monster1967
1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 298/2 I am noysed howe yat I shuld have stired ye..Prince to have take ye gouvernance of yis Reume.
1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 11 The seyd Walter..in diuers other maneres hath noysed and skaundered þe seyd William.
a1449 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 87 To noyse and disslaundre the said citee.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 664 Corsabryne moysed [read noysed] her and named her that she was oute of her mynde.
1524 R. Fox Let. 19 July (1929) 140 He hath..noysed me to owe hym sex thousande marckis.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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