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say it: noyz
noise is a noun and verb meaning "sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)". It is pronounced /ˈnɔɪz/ — noyz. It carries 7 recorded senses.
the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
“modern music is just noise to me”
electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for noise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.