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How to pronounce noise in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dissonance, racket
Type of sound, auditory sensation


modern music is just noise to me.
Type Words
Synonyms disturbance, interference
Type of trouble
Has types crosstalk, clutter, background signal, jitter, fadeout, white noise, atmospherics, xt, background, static, atmospheric static
Type Words
Synonyms haphazardness, randomness, stochasticity
Type of unregularity, irregularity
Has types ergodicity
Type Words
Synonyms make noise, resound
Type of sound, go
Has types skreak, whine, squeak, stridulate, sough, backfire, blare, blast, brattle, clack, clatter, claxon, clitter, crackle, creak, crunch, drown out, screech, sizzle, honk, howl, hum, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, purl, racket, ring out, roar, scranch, scraunch, screak, scream
Type Words
Type of yell, call, outcry, cry, vociferation, shout
Derivation noisy


the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise.
whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could.
Type Words
Type of incomprehensibility


all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say.
Type Words
Type of sound
Has types pant, plash, plonk, plop, plump, racket, rale, rattle, rattling, report, rhonchus, roar, roaring, rumble, rumbling, rustling, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scream, screaming, screech, screeching, scrunch, shriek, shrieking, shrilling, sibilation, sizzle, slam, snap, snore, spatter, spattering, splash, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering, squawk, squeak, squish, stridulation, swoosh, thunder, uproar, whisper, whispering, whoosh, rustle, bam, bang, banging, bark, blare, blaring, blast, boom, brouhaha, cacophony, chatter, chattering, chug, clack, clamor, clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clap, clash, clatter, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crash, creak, creaking, crepitation, crunch, din, ding-dong, eruption, explosion, fizzle, grate, grinding, grumble, grumbling, grunt, hiss, hissing, howl, hubbub, hum, humming, hushing, katzenjammer, oink


he enjoyed the street noises.
they heard indistinct noises of people talking.
during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels.

Examples of noise

noise
It's a weird sound, almost like the noise a smoke detector makes before it dies.
From the sacbee.com
The battery in his headset had died and its noise reduction had stopped working.
From the theatlantic.com
After a certain number of years together, husbands and wives become white noise.
From the suntimes.com
The explanation for the paradoxical effects of background noise remains unclear.
From the abcnews.go.com
Clausen compared the noise level to what he faced with Notre Dame at Penn State.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The engine drones at high r.p.m. Road noise becomes bothersome at highway speed.
From the freep.com
Asphalt is used to make pliable mats placed inside doors to muffle street noise.
From the sacbee.com
Chances are, the disparity between the two reports was mostly statistical noise.
From the time.com
That not only doesn't improve image quality, but actually increases image noise.
From the forbes.com
More examples
  • Make noise: emit a noise
  • Sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
  • The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
  • Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
  • A loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"
  • Incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
  • In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is an unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the audible noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission. ...
  • Noise is an acclaimed 2007 Australian film written and directed by director Matthew Saville and produced by Trevor Blainey. The film stars Brendan Cowell, Luke Elliot, Katie Wall, Maia Thomas and Nicholas Bell. ...
  • Noise is a comedy drama film written and directed by Henry Bean. It stars Tim Robbins and Bridget Moynahan. ...