noise
noun /nɔɪz/
/nɔɪz/
Idioms - [countable, uncountable] a sound, especially when it is loud, unpleasant or frightening
- There was a rattling noise coming from the back of the car.
- What's that noise?
- I heard a loud noise and turned around.
- Don't make a noise.
- They were making too much noise.
- I was woken by the noise of a car starting up.
- There was constant background noise from the motorway.
- Measures are needed to reduce noise levels.
- above the noise We had to shout above the noise of the traffic.
Which Word? noise / soundnoise / soundsee also white noise- Noise is usually loud and unpleasant. It can be countable or uncountable:
- Try not to make so much noise.
- What a terrible noise!
- Sound is a countable noun and means something that you hear:
- All she could hear was the sound of the waves.
Extra Examples- She was making a lot of noise.
- The deafening noise of the machine died away to a rumble.
- The slightest noise will wake him.
- There were strange noises coming from the kitchen.
- We could hear funny little sucking noises.
- Wood is used to deaden the noise.
- the noise created by aircraft
- the noise from the engine room
- Don't make so much noise.
- She uses the ambient noise of the water to keep the audience uneasy.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deafening
- loud
- awful
- …
- create
- emit
- generate
- …
- come from something
- become louder
- get louder
- …
- level
- pollution
- reduction
- …
- above the noise
- over the noise
- noise from
- …
- [uncountable] (specialist) extra electrical or electronic signals that are not part of the signal that is being broadcast or transmitted and which may damage it
- Place the devices as close as possible to the sensors to reduce noise in the signal.
- [uncountable] information that is not wanted and that can make it difficult for the important or useful information to be seen clearly
- There is some noise in the data which needs to be reduced.
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘quarrelling’): from Old French, from Latin nausea ‘seasickness’, from Greek nausia, from naus ‘ship’.
Idioms
a big noise/shot/name
- an important person
make a noise (about something)
- (informal) to complain loudly
- I will continue to make as much noise as I can to support the scheme.
make noises (about something) (informal)
- to talk in an indirect way about something that you think you might do
- The company has been making noises about closing several factories.
- to complain about something
make soothing, encouraging, reassuring, etc. noises
- to make remarks of the kind mentioned, even when that is not what you really think
- He made all the right noises at the meeting yesterday (= said what people wanted to hear).