noise : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: noise	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for noise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noise n 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" the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" Synonym(s): noise, dissonance, racket electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication Synonym(s): noise, interference, disturbance 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" 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" the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan Synonym(s): randomness, haphazardness, stochasticity, noise v emit a noise Synonym(s): make noise, resound, noise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Noise \Noise\, v. i. To sound; to make a noise. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Noise \Noise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noised}; p pr. & vb. n. {Noising}.] 1. To spread by rumor or report. All these sayings were noised abroad. --Luke i. 65. 2. To disturb with noise. [Obs.] --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Noise \Noise\, n. [F. noise noisy strife, quarrel, brawl, fr. L. nausea seasickness, sickness, disgust. See {Nausea}.] 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. [bd]The noise goes.[b8] --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. [Obs.] --Milton. The king has his noise of gypsies. --B. Jonson. Syn: Cry; outcry; clamor; din; clatter; uproar.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
noise Any part of a signal that is not the true or original signal but is introduced by the communication mechanism. A common example would be an electrical signal travelling down a wire to which noise is added by inductive and capacitive coupling with other nearby signals (this kind of noise is known as "{crosstalk}"). A less obvious form of noise is {quantisation} noise, such as the error between the true colour of a point in a scene in the real world and its representation as a {pixel} in a digital image. (2003-07-05)