noise

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant.

   The sudden noise made everyone jump.

2. 2
   noun

   Unwanted information or activity that makes it hard to find what really matters.

   It was hard to find the real news among all the online noise.

Common collocations

• noise level Noun + noun

From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense. Potentially a reduced form of Old French enoiier (“to bother, to disturb”), from Latin inodio (“to make repulsive”) - which would make it a doublet of English annoy (“to bother, to irritate”) and English ennui (“boredom, jadedness, depression”). Compare Piedmontese nojé (“…

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