noy1
/nɔɪ/Now archaic and rare (Scottish and English regional (northern ) in later use)
noun
Annoyance, trouble; suffering, distress, sadness.
Origin
Middle English; earliest use found in Arthour and Merlin. Partly aphetic from annoy, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman nui, nouy, nuye.
noy2
/nɔɪ/Physics
noun
A unit of perceived noisiness.
- One noy is equal to the noisiness of a sound of specified bandwidth and intensity..
Origin
1950s. Shortened from noise.
- lift music
- lift off
- lift (or raise) someone's spirits
- lift pump
- lift shaft
- lig
- ligament
- ligamental
- ligamentary
- ligamentous
- ligand
- ligase
- ligate
- ligation
- ligature
- liger
- Ligeti, György Sándor
- ligger
- light
- light a fire under
- light a fire under someone
- light air
- light ale
- light and shade
- light at the end of the tunnel