Noun

(en-noun)

A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.

* 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,

And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.

* 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,

The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.

Noun

(en noun)

Various sounds, usually unwanted.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived.

* {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}

Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.

(label) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio )

(label) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.

Rumour or complaint.

* T. Baker

What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!

* Spectator

Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages.

(obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

The king has his noise of gypsies.

(Milton)