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Fracas vs Noise - What's the difference?

fracas | noise |

As nouns the difference between fracas and noise

is that fracas is failure while noise is various sounds, usually unwanted.

As a verb noise is

to make a noise; to sound.

fracas

English

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.

    Synonyms

    * brouhaha * kerfuffle * melee

    noise

    English

    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)

    Derived terms

    * noises off * noiseless

    Synonyms

    * (Various sounds) sound

    Hyponyms

    * (Various sounds) bang, boom, crash, thud

    References

    (Genetics meaning)'' " Noise in Gene Expression: Origins, Consequences, and Control." Jonathan M. Raser and Erin K. O'Shea (2005). ''Science . 309 (5743):2010-2013.

    Verb

    (nois)
  • To make a noise; to sound.
  • (Milton)
  • To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
  • When this was noysed aboute, the multitude cam togedder and were astonyed, because that every man herde them speake in his awne tongue.

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