Nose vs Noise - What's the difference?
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A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A snout, the nose of an animal.
The tip of an object.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
The power of smelling.
* Collier
Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
The skill in recognising bouquet.
(by extension) Skill at finding information.
To move cautiously.
To snoop.
To detect by smell or as if by smell.
* , Hamlet , act 4, sc. 3,
To push with one's nose.
* Tennyson
To nuzzle.
To win by a narrow margin.
To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
Various sounds, usually unwanted.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* {{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
* Spectator
(obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
To make a noise; to sound.
To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
In intransitive terms the difference between nose and noise
is that nose is to snoop while noise is to make a noise; to sound.In transitive terms the difference between nose and noise
is that nose is to utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang while noise is to spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.nose
English
(wikipedia nose)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.
- We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
- We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* aquiline nose * bignose * bloody nose * blow one's nose * bottlenose * button nose * cut off one's nose to spite one's face * e-nose * * get up someone's nose * hawknose * in front of one's nose * I've got your nose * keep one's nose clean * look down one's nose * nasal * no skin off one's nose * nose candy * nose cap * nose cone * nose count * nose flute * nose job * nose out of joint * nose pad * nose-pick * nose poke * nose ring * nose test * nose to tail * nose to the grindstone * nosebag * noseband * nosebleed * nosed * nosedive * noseful * noseguard * noseless * noselike * nosepiece * noseplug * nosering * noseshot * noseweight * nosewheel * on the nose * parson's nose * pay through the nose * pick one's nose * plain as the nose on one's face * pope's nose * powder one's nose * pug nose * Red Nose Day * Roman nose * runny nose * snub-nose * socked on the nose * stick one's nose into * the nose knows * thumb one's nose * turn up one's nose * under one's nose * wax-nose * white nose syndromeSee also
* rhino-Verb
(nos)- The ship nosed through the minefield.
- She was nosing around other people’s business.
- If you find him not within
- this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
- stairs into the lobby.
- lambs nosing the mother's udder
- to nose a prayer
- (Cowley)
Derived terms
* brown-nose * nosey * nose outAnagrams
* * * * * * * 1000 English basic words ----noise
English
Noun
(en noun)- The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived.
- What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!
- Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages.
- The king has his noise of gypsies.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* noises off * noiselessSynonyms
* (Various sounds) soundHyponyms
* (Various sounds) bang, boom, crash, thudReferences
(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)- (Milton)
- When this was noysed aboute, the multitude cam togedder and were astonyed, because that every man herde them speake in his awne tongue.