What's The Definition Of Noise?
[n] the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
[n] sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"
[n] electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
[v] emit a noise
Synonyms | Synonyms for Noise: dissonance |
disturbance |
interference |
make noise |
racket |
resound
Related Terms | Find terms related to Noise: Aesopian language |
aimlessness |
ALGOL |
alphabetic data |
alphanumeric code |
amplitude |
angular data |
argot |
assembler |
atmospherics |
auditory effect |
auditory phenomenon |
babble |
Babel |
ballyhoo |
bawling |
be noisy |
bedlam |
Bedlam let loose |
binary digit |
binary scale |
binary system |
bit |
black spot |
blare |
blaring |
blast |
blasting |
blind spot |
bloom |
blooping |
bobbery |
brawl |
brouhaha |
bruit about |
bug |
byte |
cacophony |
cant |
channel |
charivari |
chirm |
cipher |
circulate |
clamor |
clangor |
clap |
clash |
clatter |
COBOL |
code |
command pulses |
commands |
commotion |
communication explosion |
communication theory |
compiler |
computer code |
computer language |
computer program |
confusion of tongues |
control signals |
controlled quantity |
correcting signals |
crash |
crawling |
creeping |
cryptogram |
data |
data retrieval |
data storage |
dead letter |
decoding |
definition |
din |
discord |
discordance |
dissonance |
disturbance |
donnybrook |
double Dutch |
drift |
drunken brawl |
dustup |
EDP |
electronic data processing |
emit a sound |
emptiness |
empty sound |
encoding |
entropy |
error |
error signals |
fade-out |
fading |
feedback pulses |
feedback signals |
film data |
flap |
flare |
FORTRAN |
fracas |
free-for-all |
fringe area |
futility |
garble |
ghost |
gibberish |
gift of tongues |
glossolalia |
gobbledygook |
granulation |
Greek |
grid |
hard shadow |
harshness |
hell |
hell broke loose |
hexadecimal system |
howl |
hubbub |
hue and cry |
hullabaloo |
image |
inanity |
information |
information explosion |
information theory |
input data |
input quantity |
insignificance |
instructions |
interference |
jangle |
jar |
jargon |
jumble |
loud noise |
loudness |
machine language |
maffick |
make a noise |
make a racket |
make a sound |
make an uproar |
meaninglessness |
mere noise |
message |
multiple image |
multiple messages |
noise and shouting |
nonsensicality |
nullity |
numeric data |
octal system |
oscillograph data |
outcry |
output data |
output quantity |
pandemonium |
phatic communion |
phone |
picture |
picture noise |
picture shifts |
play |
polar data |
punch-card data |
purposelessness |
racket |
rain |
raise a clamor |
raise Cain |
raise hell |
raise the devil |
raise the roof |
random data |
rattle |
reception |
rectangular data |
redundancy |
reference quantity |
resound |
rhubarb |
roar |
rolling |
row |
ruckus |
ruction |
ruly English |
rumble |
rumbling |
rumor |
rumpus |
scanning pattern |
scintillation |
scramble |
secret language |
senselessness |
shading |
shindy |
shivaree |
signal |
signals |
single messages |
slang |
snow |
snowstorm |
sonance |
sound |
sound intensity level |
sound propagation |
sound wave |
speak |
speech sound |
spread |
static |
thunder |
thunderclap |
thundering |
tintamarre |
tumult |
turmoil |
ultrasound |
unmeaningness |
unorganized data |
unsignificancy |
uproar |
visible-speech data |
whoop it up
See Also | atmospheric static |
atmospherics |
auditory sensation |
backfire |
background |
background signal |
bang |
banging |
bark |
blare |
blare |
blaring |
blast |
blast |
blowup |
boom |
brattle |
brouhaha |
cacophony |
chatter |
chattering |
chug |
clack |
clack |
clamor |
clang |
clangor |
clangoring |
clangour |
clank |
clap |
clash |
clatter |
clatter |
claxon |
clitter |
crack |
cracking |
crackle |
crackle |
crackling |
crash |
creak |
creak |
creaking |
crepitation |
crosstalk |
crunch |
crunch |
din |
ding-dong |
drown out |
eruption |
fadeout |
go |
grate |
grinding |
grumble |
grumbling |
grunt |
hiss |
hissing |
honk |
howl |
howl |
hubbub |
hum |
hum |
humming |
jangle |
jingle |
jinglejangle |
jitter |
katzenjammer |
loud noise |
pant |
plash |
plonk |
plop |
plump |
purl |
racket |
racket |
rale |
rattle |
rattling |
report |
rhonchus |
ring out |
roar |
roar |
roaring |
rumble |
rumbling |
rustle |
rustling |
scranch |
scrape |
scraping |
scratch |
scratching |
scraunch |
screak |
scream |
scream |
screaming |
screech |
screech |
screeching |
scrunch |
shriek |
shrieking |
shrilling |
sibilation |
sizzle |
skreak |
snore |
sound |
sound |
sound |
spatter |
spattering |
splash |
splatter |
splattering |
splutter |
sputter |
sputtering |
squawk |
squeak |
squeak |
static |
stridulate |
stridulation |
thunder |
trouble |
uproar |
whisper |
whispering |
white noise |
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Noise In Webster's Dictionary
\Noise\, n. [F. noise noisy strife, quarrel, brawl, fr. L.
nausea seasickness, sickness, disgust. See {Nausea}.]
1. Sound of any kind.
The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion
without noise to us perceived. --Bacon.
Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be
determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is
a confused mixture of many discordant sounds, like the
rolling of thunder or the noise of the waves.
Nevertheless, the difference between sound and noise is
by no means precise. --Ganot.
2. Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor;
din.
3. Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion;
rumor; report. ``The noise goes.'' --Shak.
What noise have we had about transplantation of
diseases and transfusion of blood! --T. Baker.
Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague
which has made so much noise in all ages.
--Spectator.
4. Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of
musicians; a band. [Obs.] --Milton.
The king has his noise of gypsies. --B. Jonson.
Syn: Cry; outcry; clamor; din; clatter; uproar.
\Noise\, v. i.
To sound; to make a noise. --Milton.
\Noise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noised}; p pr. & vb. n.
{Noising}.]
1. To spread by rumor or report.
All these sayings were noised abroad. --Luke i. 65.
2. To disturb with noise. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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