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{
"term": "noise",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a sound, especially when it is loud, unpleasant or frightening",
"sensetop": "above the noise",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "There was a rattling noise coming from the back of the car."
},
{
"text": "What's that noise?"
},
{
"text": "I heard a loud noise and turned around."
},
{
"text": "Don't **make a noise**."
},
{
"text": "They were making too much noise."
},
{
"text": "I was woken by the noise of a car starting up."
},
{
"text": "There was constant **background noise** from the motorway."
},
{
"text": "Measures are needed to reduce **noise levels**."
},
{
"text": "We had to shout above the noise of the traffic.",
"contextForm": "above the noise"
},
{
"text": "She was making a lot of noise."
},
{
"text": "The deafening noise of the machine died away to a rumble."
},
{
"text": "The slightest noise will wake him."
},
{
"text": "There were strange noises coming from the kitchen."
},
{
"text": "We could hear funny little sucking noises."
},
{
"text": "Wood is used to deaden the noise."
},
{
"text": "the noise created by aircraft"
},
{
"text": "the noise from the engine room"
},
{
"text": "Don't make so much noise."
},
{
"text": "She uses the ambient noise of the water to keep the audience uneasy."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["deafening", "loud", "awful"],
"verb + noise": ["create", "emit", "generate"],
"noise + verb": ["come from something", "become louder", "get louder"],
"noise + noun": ["level", "pollution", "reduction"],
"preposition": ["above the noise", "over the noise", "noise from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "extra electrical or electronic signals that are not part of the signal that is being broadcast or transmitted and which may damage it",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Place the devices as close as possible to the sensors to reduce noise in the signal."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "information that is not wanted and that can make it difficult for the important or useful information to be seen clearly",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There is some noise in the data which needs to be reduced."
}
],
"topics": ["Computers"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "an important person",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to complain loudly",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I will continue to make as much noise as I can to support the scheme."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to talk in an indirect way about something that you think you might do",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company has been making noises about closing several factories."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to complain about something",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to make remarks of the kind mentioned, even when that is not what you really think",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He made all the right noises at the meeting yesterday *(= said what people wanted to hear)*."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/nɔɪz/",
"audio": "no/noise/noise__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/nɔɪz/",
"audio": "no/noise/noise__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘quarrelling’): from Old French, from Latin nausea ‘seasickness’, from Greek nausia, from naus ‘ship’."
}