different between ears vs nose

ears

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /??z/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??z/

Noun

ears

  1. plural of ear

Derived terms

Verb

ears

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ear

Anagrams

  • AREs, ARSE, Ares, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, eras, rase, reas, sare, sear, sera

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ærs

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?orsos. Cognate with Old Frisian ers, Old Saxon ars, Old High German ars, Old Norse ars ~ rass, and more distantly with Old Armenian ?? (o?, ass) and Modern Greek ???? (ourá, tail).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æ??rs/, [æ??r?s]

Noun

ears m (nominative plural earsas)

  1. butt, arse

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: ars, arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars
    • English: arse, ass
    • Scots: ers, airse

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nose

English

Etymology

From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu (compare Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (snout), variant of *nas? (compare German Low German Nees, Nes, Näs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese (nose)), old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s- ~ *nh?es- (nose, nostril) (compare Latin n?ris (nostril), n?sus (nose), Lithuanian nósis, Russian ??? (nos), Sanskrit ???? (n??s?, nostrils)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?z, IPA(key): /n??z/
  • (General American) enPR: n?z, IPA(key): /no?z/
  • Homophones: knows, noes
  • Rhymes: -??z

Noun

nose (plural noses)

  1. A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
  2. A snout, the nose of an animal.
  3. The tip of an object.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
      We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
  4. The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
  5. (horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
  6. A perfumer.
  7. The power of smelling.
    • c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, Of Envy
      We are not offended with [] a dog for a better nose than his master.
  8. Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
  9. The skill in recognising bouquet.
  10. (by extension) Skill at finding information.
  11. (architecture) A downward projection from a cornice.
    Synonym: drip
  12. (slang) An informer.
    Synonym: nark
    • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (page 60)
      [] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; []

Synonyms

  • (the bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle): tab
  • See also Thesaurus:nose

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Sranan Tongo: noso

Translations

See nose/translations § Noun.

See also

  • rhino-

Verb

nose (third-person singular simple present noses, present participle nosing, simple past and past participle nosed)

  1. (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
  2. (intransitive) To snoop.
  3. (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
    • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 4, sc. 3,
      If you find him not within
      this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
      stairs into the lobby.
  4. (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
    • 1868, Alfred Tennyson, Lucretius
      lambs [] nosing the mother's udder
  5. (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
  6. (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowley to this entry?)
  7. (transitive) To furnish with a nose.
  8. (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.

Derived terms

  • brown-nose
  • nosey
  • nose out

Translations

Anagrams

  • ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, SONE, Sone, eons, neos, noes, one's, ones, sone

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?nos?]

Noun

nose

  1. vocative/locative singular of nos

Verb

nose

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of nosit

Related terms

  • nosíc
  • nesa

Japanese

Romanization

nose

  1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?s?/, [?n?s?]

Noun

nose

  1. nominative/accusative plural of nos

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • neose, nese, nosse, noose

Etymology 1

From Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu.

Alternative forms

  • noose, nosse, nos, nosu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n??z(?)/

Noun

nose (plural noses or nosen)

  1. nose (protrusion of the human face)
  2. beak, nose-shaped protrusion
Descendants
  • English: nose
  • Scots: nos, nose, nois
  • Yola: nize, niz
References
  • “n?se, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French nos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no?s/

Noun

nose (plural noses)

  1. (rare, Late Middle English) noose
Descendants
  • English: noose
References
  • “n?se, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *njík??.

Noun

nose

  1. bee

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • nosa (a- and split infinitives)

Verb

nose (present tense nosar, past tense nosa, past participle nosa, passive infinitive nosast, present participle nosande, imperative nos)

  1. (transitive) to sniff, nose

References

  • “nose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • osen, sone

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?nose/, [?noze]

Noun

nose

  1. inflection of nosu:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

  • nosi

Noun

nose f

  1. nose

Inflection

Descendants

  • North Frisian: nös
  • Saterland Frisian: Noose
  • West Frisian: noas

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

nose (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. third-person plural present of nositi

Slovak

Noun

nose

  1. locative singular of nos

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