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Noun noise has 6 senses

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"
--₁ is a kind of sound
--₁ has particulars:

bang, clap, eruption, blast, loud noise; banging; bark; blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din; boom, roar, roaring, thunder; chatter, chattering; chatter, chattering; chug; clack, clap; clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crash; clatter; crack, cracking, snap; crackle, crackling, crepitation; creak, creaking; crunch; ding-dong; explosion; grate; grinding; grunt; hiss, hissing, sibilation; howl; hubbub, uproar, brouhaha, katzenjammer; hum, humming; pant; plonk; plop; plump; racket; rattle, rattling, rale; report; rhonchus; rumble, rumbling, grumble, grumbling; rustle, rustling, whisper, whispering; scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching; screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming; scrunch; shrilling; slam; snap; snore; spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering; splash, plash; squawk; squeak; stridulation; thunder

Derived form: verb noise₁

noise, dissonance, racket - the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
--₂ is a kind of sound, auditory sensation
--₂ has particulars: white noise
Derived form: verb noise₁
noise, interference, disturbance - electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
--₃ is a kind of trouble
--₃ has particulars:
clutter; background, background signal; crosstalk, XT; fadeout; jitter; static, atmospherics, atmospheric static
noise - 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"
--₄ is a kind of cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation
noise - 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"
--₅ is a kind of incomprehensibility
randomness, haphazardness, stochasticity, noise - the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
--₆ is a kind of irregularity, unregularity
--₆ has particulars: ergodicity

Verb noise has 1 sense

make noise, resound, noise - emit a noise
--₁ is one way to sound, go

Derived forms: noun noise₂, noun noise₁
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