Word Meanings - NOISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many

Additional info about word: NOISE

1. Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many discordant sounds, like the rolling of thunder or the noise of the waves. Nevertheless, the difference between sound and noise is by no means precise. Ganot. 2. Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din. 3. Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report. "The noise goes." Shak. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator. 4. Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band. Milton. The king has his noise of gypsies. B. Jonson. Syn. -- Cry; outcry; clamor; din; clatter; uproar.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NOISE)

• Clamor
• Contention
• contentiousness
• squabble
• tumult
• hubbub
• noise
• uproar
• outcry
• obloquy
• Outcry
• denunciation
• hullabaloo
• yell
• scream
• Report
• tidings
• announce
• ment
• relation
• narration
• recital
• description
• communication
• declaration
• news
• rumor
• fame
• repute
• reverberation
• Riot
• Noise
• fray
• outbreak
• mutiny
• row
• revel
• disturbance
• turbulence
• Sound
• Resonance
• audibility
• report

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NOISE)

• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to NOISE)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• TURBULENCE
  The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. Shak. The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued. Southey. Syn. -- Agitation; commotion; tumult; tumultuousness; termagance; unruliness;
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• REVERBERATION
  The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• AUDIBILITY
  The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• NARRATION
  That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale;
• TIDINGS
  Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. Note: Although tidings is
• MUTINY
  mutiner, fr. F. mutin stubborn, mutinous, fr. OF. meute riot, LL. 1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior
• HULLABALOO
  A confused noise; uproar; tumult. Thackeray.
• OUTBREAK
  A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• REPUTE
  1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate. He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. Milton. 2. Specifically: Good character
• UPROAR
  Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5. (more info) uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr to stir, hr stirring,
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• REVELATOR
  One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL