different between noise vs hoise

English

Etymology

From Middle English noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.

Pronunciation

• enPR: noiz, IPA^(key): /n??z/
• Rhymes: -??z
• Homophone: Noyes

Noun

noise (countable and uncountable, plural noises)

1. (uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
2. Any sound.

3. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
4. (technology) Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.

   signal-to-noise ratio
5. (figuratively, by extension) Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
6. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
7. Rumour or complaint.
   • 1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning

     What noise have we had for fome Years about Transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!

   • October 13, 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 195

     He [Socrates] lived in Athens during the great plague, which has made so much noise through all ages.

8. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
   • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed

     The king has his noise of gypsies.
9. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.

Synonyms

• (Various sounds): sound

Hyponyms

• (Various sounds): bang, boom, crash, thud

Derived terms

• background noise
• big noise
• noise footprint
• noise gate
• noiseless, noiselessly, noiselessness
• noises off
• noise pollution
• noisy, noisily
• pink noise
• shot noise
• signal-to-noise
• surface noise
• white noise

Translations

References

(Genetics meaning) "Noise in Gene Expression: Origins, Consequences, and Control." Jonathan M. Raser and Erin K. O'Shea (2005). Science. 309(5743):2010-2013.

Verb

noise (third-person singular simple present noises, present participle noising, simple past and past participle noised)

1. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
2. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts II:

     When this was noysed aboute, the multitude cam togedder and were astonyed, because that every man herde them speake in his awne tongue.

Translations

Further reading

• noise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• noise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• noise at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• NESOI, Senoi, eosin, onsie

French

Etymology

From Old French noise, possibly from Latin nausia, nausea, or alternatively noxia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwaz/

Noun

noise f (plural noises)

1. (archaic or literary) quarrel, argument

Derived terms

• chercher des noises

Further reading

• “noise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• noies

Middle French

Etymology

Old French noise.

Noun

noise f (plural noises)

1. noise

Descendants

• French: noise

Old French

Etymology

Origin uncertain; according to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”), compare Old Occitan nauza (“noise, quarrel”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?noi?.z?]

Noun

noise f (oblique plural noises, nominative singular noise, nominative plural noises)

1. dispute, argument
2. noise, sound

Descendants

• English: noise
• French: noise

English

Etymology

Probably from Middle Dutch hisen (modern hijsen) or Middle Low German hissen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??z/

Verb

hoise (third-person singular simple present hoises, present participle hoising, simple past and past participle hoised or hoist)

1. (transitive, obsolete except in dialects or after Shakespeare) to hoist
2. (intransitive, obsolete): to hoist, be raised