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say it: nohz
nose is a noun and verb meaning "the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals". It carries 14 recorded senses.
the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
“he has a cold in the nose”
the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
“he ducked under the nose of the gun”
a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
push or move with the nose
defeat by a narrow margin
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 nose 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.