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noise | American Dictionary

noise
noun[ C/U ]
us/nɔɪz/
(a) sound, esp. when it is unwanted, unpleasant, or loud:
[ U ]I heard background noise on the phone line.
[ C ]If the washing machine gets out of balance, it makes a horrible noise.

noisy

adjective[ -er/-est only ]us/ˈnɔɪ·zi/
The garbage truck is so noisy it wakes me up in the morning.

noise | Business English

noise
noun[ U ]
uk /nɔɪz/us
unnecessary information or activity:
The CEO was accused of making unnecessary noise to distract the board from the main issue.
a change in a signal, especially one produced by electronic equipment:
Using a single chip reduces the noise on the output signal by 90%.

Examples of noise

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Conversely, if food or drink is identified by lights or noises, rats learn little or nothing.
Because these noises are likely to be quite common in some classrooms, children may have a difficult time understanding a teacher's instructions.
I merely made encouraging noises and left quickly.
The implicature the people derive seems to be that, if they hear starling-like noises starlings must be there.
The story does have a protagonist, a person hearing the environmental noises as he or she commences the trip.
However, noises can be resistant to this operation.
Acoustic properties of the instruments are accentuated during the solo part, and natural noises of the recorder arise when amplified through a microphone.
Already he had an ear for noises, and was very sensitive to the musical qualities of natural noises.
In the latter case, pure sine waves and random noises were played within a narrow, purpose-built corridor.
Other common non-speech sounds, such as lip smacks, coughs or breath noises and door slams or beeps may also be included as distinct elementary units.
The play gives directions not for one or two but for numerous incalculable noises - tallying them up would produce a long catalogue.
However, the cases with small misalignment ratios are more sensitive to noises because the number of data points for matching is small.
However, this can be expanded to the moving camera environment, where the input data might suffer from higher noises and uncertainties.
He concluded that the noises probably had been thunder.
The record noises become abstract at one level but remain connected to the pathos of ageing technology.
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Collocations withnoise

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These are words often used in combination with noise.

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acoustic noise
The background acoustic noise is around 47 decibels, and the following measurements were made with a sound intensity about 85 decibels including background noise.
a lot of noise
And the misalignment between the mating parts was corrected successfully by using a pattern matching technique in spite of a lotofnoise.
ambient noise
This creates a spatially disembodied subsonic vibration that modulates the ambientnoise in the space.
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