Noise vs Nowise - What's the difference?

noise | nowise |

As a noun noise

is various sounds, usually unwanted.

As a verb noise

is to make a noise; to sound.

As an adverb nowise is

(In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not.

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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Anagrams

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nowise

English

Adverb

(-)

(In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not.

:* {{quote-book

, year=1850 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=(Thomas Carlyle) , title=(w) , chapter=The present time , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere. }}

:* {{quote-book

, year=1851 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Herman Melville , title=Moby Dick , chapter= , url= , genre=Fiction , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of he learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone. }}

:* {{quote-magazine

, date= , year=1996 , month=Summer , first= , last= , author=Raymond Jarvi , coauthors= , title=Hjalmar Soderberg on August Strindberg , volume=68 , issue=3 , page=343 , magazine=Scandinavian Studies , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns -- nowise a modest sum at that time -- despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter. }}

:* {{quote-magazine

, date= , year=2006 , month=Fall , first= , last= , author=Nate Haken , coauthors= , title=Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba , volume=47 , issue=3 , page=410 , magazine=The Massachusetts Review , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage= I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost. }}

Synonyms

* (in no way) nohow, not in any way