nose

1. 1.

   search or inquire in a meddlesome way

   “This guy is always nosing around the office”

   Synonymsintrudehorn inprypoke

   Broadersearch
2. 2.

   advance the forward part of with caution

   “She nosed the car into the left lane”

   Broaderadvance
3. 3.

   catch the scent of; get wind of

   “The dog nosed out the drugs”

   Synonymsscentwind

   Broadersmell
4. 4.

   push or move with the nose

   Broaderpush
5. 5.

   rub noses

   Synonymsnuzzle

   Broadercaress
6. 6.

   defeat by a narrow margin

   Broaderget the better of

Other forms of nose

plural

noses·

past tense

nosed·

present participle

nosing·

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.

Questions about nose

What does nose mean?

nose means "the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals". That is the primary sense; the word has 14 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nose?

nose has 1 syllable: nose. In IPA it is /ˈnoʊz/.

What is another word for nose?

Close synonyms include olfactory organ, nozzle, intrude, horn in, pry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nose a common word?

nose is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nose?

2 words rhyme with nose. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.