noise
US: /ˈnɔɪz/
UK: /nˈɔɪz/
UK: /nˈɔɪz/
English Vietnamese dictionary
noise /nɔiz/
- danh từ
- tiếng; tiếng ồn ào, tiếng om sòm, tiếng huyên náo
- to make a noise: làm ồn
- to make a noise in the world: nổi tiếng trên thế giới, được thiên hạ nói đến nhiều
- tiếng; tiếng ồn ào, tiếng om sòm, tiếng huyên náo
- ngoại động từ
- loan (tin), đồn
- it was noised abroad that: có tin đồn rằng
- loan (tin), đồn
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C, U] a sound, especially when it is loud, unpleasant or disturbing: a rattling noise + What's that noise? + Don't make so much noise. + I was woken by the noise of a car starting up. + We had to shout above the noise of the traffic. + to monitor / reduce noise levels
2 [U] (technical) extra electrical or electronic signals that are not part of the signal that is being broadcast or TRANSMITTED and which may damage it
Idioms: make a noise (about sth) (informal) to complain loudly
make noises (about sth) (informal)
1 to talk in an indirect way about sth that you think you might do: The company has been making noises about closing several factories.
2 to complain about sth
make soothing, encouraging, reassuring, etc. noises to make remarks of the kind mentioned, even when that is not what you really think: He made all the right noises at the meeting yesterday (= said what people wanted to hear).
more at BIG adj.
WHICH WORD?
noise / sound
Sound is a general word for anything you hear: strange sounds and smells + She could hear the sound of children laughing. Do not use words like much or a lot of with sound.
Noise is usually loud and unpleasant: What a terrible noise! It can be uncountable:
Try not to make so much noise.
Racket and din (especially BrE) are informal words for a loud unpleasant noise that continues for a time: Who's making all that racket? + What a terrible din!
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 sound, clamour, crash, clap, clash, clangour, din, thunder, thundering, rumble, rumbling, outcry, hubbub, uproar, hullabaloo, racket, charivari or US and Canadian also shivaree, rattle, caterwauling, rumpus, blare, blast, blasting, bawling, babel; commotion, bedlam, fracas, tumult, pandemonium, turmoil; discordance, dissonance, cacophony; Archaic alarms or alarums and excursions, Colloq ruckus, ruction, ballyhoo:
I couldn't sleep because of the unbearable noise from the party next door. You may call acid rock music, but she calls it noise
2 sound, disturbance:
Did you just hear that strange noise? It's only the noise of the crickets.
v.
3 Often, noise about or around. circulate, spread, rumour, bruit (about):
It is being noised about that John and Marsha are getting a divorce.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
deafening, loud | awful, horrible, terrible | low, slight
The slightest noise will wake him.
| sudden | funny, strange | background
There was constant background noise from the motorway.
| constant, incessant | banging, buzzing, clattering, etc. | aircraft, engine, traffic | rude
One of the children made a rude noise.
VERB + NOISE
create, generate, make
the noise created by aircraft She was making a lot of noise.
| hear, listen to
We could hear funny little sucking noises.
| deaden, reduce
Wood is used to deaden the noise.
NOISE + VERB
come from sth
There were strange noises coming from the sitting room.
| become/get/grow louder, grow, increase, rise | abate, die away/down, drop, fade away, fall
The deafening noise of the machine dropped to a rumble, then stopped.
NOISE + NOUN
level | pollution
PREP.
above/over the ~
We had to shout over the noise of the traffic.
| ~ from
the noise from the engine room
Concise English dictionary
noises|noised|noisingnɔɪz
noun
+sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
+the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
+electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
+a loud outcry of protest or complaint
+incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks
+the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
verb
+emit a noise
