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Noise vs Quonk - What's the difference?

noise | quonk |

In lang=en terms the difference between noise and quonk

is that noise is to spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip while quonk is to honk.

As nouns the difference between noise and quonk

is that noise is various sounds, usually unwanted while quonk is unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.

As verbs the difference between noise and quonk

is that noise is to make a noise; to sound while quonk is to produce unwanted noise.

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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    quonk

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
  • Audience chatter which disturbs the performer.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce unwanted noise.
  • * 2004 , Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives
    • The microphone quonked , caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated
  • To honk.
  • * 1902 , Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor
    • As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.
  • * 1999 , Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey