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Definition: Nose |
NoseNoun1. 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". 2. A front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry". 3. The front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he ducked under the nose of the gun". 4. A small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose". 5. The sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a good nose". 6. A natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals". 7. A projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged. Verb1. Search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office". 2. Advance the forward part of with caution: "She nosed the car into the left lane". 3. Catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs". 4. Push or move with the nose. 5. Rub noses. 6. Defeat by a narrow margin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout: "No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!" So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." Arpad Singiny. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | A prominent member of the face family, usually a Greek or Roman, who owns the shortest bridge in the world. He is often stuck up in company, but frequently blows himself when he has his grippe. Principal occupations, sniffling, snivelling, sneezing, snort. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To see your own nose, indicates force of character, and consciousness of your ability to accomplish whatever enterprise you may choose to undertake. If your nose looks smaller than natural, there will be failure in your affairs. Hair growing on your nose, indicates extraordinary undertakings, and that they will be carried through by sheer force of character, or will. A bleeding nose, is prophetic of disaster, whatever the calling of the dreamer may be. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A)the end of a log, rounded-off so as to facilitate dragging; b)the turned-up fore-end of a log sledge runner. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The bouquet and aroma of a wine. A wine has a good nose when it is well developed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | Part of the feeder containing an opening in which orifice rings of appropriate sizes can be fitted, and forming the end of the forehearth. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Compartment of a container furnace following the melting end and separated from it by the bridge; it is connected with the melting end by the throat. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Nose Bleeding of the nose Sign of love. " `Did my nose ever bleed when I was in your company?' and, poor wretch, just as she spake this to show her true heart, her nose fell a-bleeding."- Boulster: Lectures, p. 130. Bleeding of the nose. Grose says if it bleeds one drop only it forebodes sickness, if three drops the omen is still worse, but Melton, in his Astrologaster, says, "If a man's nose bleeds one drop at the left nostril it is a sign of good luck, and vice versâ. " Led by the nose. Isaiah xxxvii. 29 says, "Because thy rage against Me is come up into Mine cars, therefore will I put My hook in thy nose ... and will turn thee back. ..." Horses, asses, etc., led by bit and bridle, are led by the nose. Hence Iago says of Othello, he was "led by the nose as asses are" (i.3). But buffaloes, camels, and bears are actually led by a ring inserted into their nostrils. Golden nose. Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer. Having lost his nose in a duel with Passberg, he adopted a golden one, which he attached to his face by a cement which he carried about with him. "That eminent man who had a golden nose, Tycho Brahe."- Marryat: Jutland and the Danish Isles, p. 305 General Zelislaus, having lost his right hand in battle, had a golden one given him by Boleslaus III. To count noses. To count the numbers of a division. It is a horse-dealer's term, who counts horses by the nose, for the sake of convenience. Thus the Times, comparing the House of Commons to Tattersall's, says, "Such is the counting of noses upon a question which lies at the basis of our constitution." To out off your nose to spite your face, or ... to be revenged on your face. To act out of pique in such a way as to injure yourself: as to run a way from home, to marry out of pique, to throw up a good situation in a fit of ill temper, etc., or any similar folly. To keep one's nose to the grin'-stone. To keep one hard at work. Tools, such as scythes, chisels, etc., are constantly sharpened on a stone or with a grin'-stone. The nose of a stair is the edge, and "nose" in numerous phrases stands for the person's self. In French nez is so used in some phrases. "From this ... he kept Bill's nose to the grinding-stone."- W. B. Yeats: Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry, p. 237. Paying through the nose. Grimm says that Odin had a poll-tax which was called in Sweden a nose-tax; it was a penny per nose or poll. (Deutsche Rechts Alterthumer.) (See Nose Tax, Rhino.) To snap one's nose aff. To speak snappishly. "Ready to snap one's nose off." To "pull (or wring) the nose," tirer or arracher le nez is to affront by an act of indignity; to snap one's nose is to affront by speech. Fighting dogs snap at each other's noses. To wipe [one's] nose. To affront a person; to give one a blow on the nose. Similarly, to wipe a person's eye; to fetch one a wipe over the knuckles, etc., connected with the Anglo-Saxon verb hweop-an, to whip, to strike (our whip). "She was so nose-wipt, slighted, and disdained,"- Nares' Glossary, p. 619. "To wipe off a score," "to wipe a person down," meaning to cajole or pacify, from the Anglo-Saxon wipian, to wipe, cleanse. Hence to fleece one out of his money. Quite another verb to that given above. To take pepper in the nose. To take offence. "A man is testy, and anger wrinkles his nose such a man takes pepper in the nose."- Optick Glasse of Humors (1639). To turn up one's nose. To express contempt. When a person sneers he turns up the nose by curling the upper lip. Under your [very] nose. This is French also: "Au nez ct à la barbe de quelqu'un ' ("Just before your face"). Nose = face in numerous locutions, both in French and English; as, "Montrer son nez;" "Régarder quelqu'un sous le nez;" "Mettre le nez a la fenêtre," etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | The free end of a spindle projecting slightly from the frame of the machine and receiving clamping devices for the workpiece or cutting tools. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Upper opening in a converter through which the gases escape, charging is carried out and deslagging and pouring are effected. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Scot. A point; a projecting angle of coal or other mineral. Also called ness b. The lead face of the crown of a diamond bit c. A short plunging anticline without closure.d. To dip or run in the form of a geological nose. (references) |
Shipping | Front of a container or trailer - opposite the tail. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: The tip of snowboard. Definition: The part of the face above the mouth which is the organ of smell and through which air is breathed. Context: This word is not used often. A person may check When he/she wants to know which is front and which is back by seeing the snowboard. Social Source: Snowboarders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | NOSE. As plain as the nose on your face; evidently to be seen. He is led by the nose; he is governed. To follow one's nose; to go strait forward. To put one's nose out of joint; to rival one in the favour of any person. To make a bridge of any one's nose; NOSE. A man who informs or turns king's evidence. RICH FACE, or NOSE. A red pimpled, face. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Transportation | Leading portion of aerofoil. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nose as a term may be used to designate the leading end of anything. Anatomically, a nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares.In humans and most other mammals, the nose is either central to the face or on the upper tip of the snout. It houses paired nares, or nasal openings, to admit and expel air for respiration. In most mammals, it also houses nosehairs, which catch airborne particles and prevent them from reaching the lungs. Within and behind the nose are the olfactory organs for sensing smells, and the sinuses. Behind the nasal cavity, air next passes through the pharynx, shared with the digestive system, and then into the rest of the respiratory system.
As an interface between the body and the external world, the nose and associated structures frequently perform additional functions concerned with conditioning entering air (for instance, by warming and/or humidifying it) and by reclaiming moisture from the air before it is exhaled (as occurs most efficiently in camels).
In cetaceans, the nose has been reduced to the nostrils, which have migrated to the top of the head, producing a more streamlined body shape and the ability to breathe while mostly submerged. Conversely, the elephant's nose has become elaborated into a long, muscular, manipulative organ called the trunk.
Due to the special nature of the blood supply to the human nose and surrounding area, it is possible for retrograde infections from the nasal area to spread to the brain. For this reason, the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the nose, including the nose and maxilla, is known to doctors as the danger triangle of the face.
Handkerchiefs are used for blowing one's nose.
See also: sneeze, photic sneeze reflex, nose-picking
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nose."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NOSE | English | Neotronics Olfactory Sensing Equipment | Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: NoseSynonyms: nozzle (n), olfactory organ (n), nuzzle (v), poke (v), pry (v), scent (v), wind (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: dripstone (building & civil engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz. |
Curiosity | Verb: be curious; Adjective: take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck. |
Inquiry | Look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nose |
| English words defined with "nose": brandy nose, Bridge of the nose ♦ copper nose ♦ hammer nose, hawk nose ♦ nose job, Nose leaf, Nose of wax, nose ring ♦ potato nose, pug nose ♦ Roman nose, rum nose ♦ Snub nose ♦ toper's nose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nose": ablating nose cone ♦ Cock the Nose ♦ double-round nose ♦ fuselage nose ♦ half-round nose ♦ Itching of the Nose ♦ MALMSEY NOSE, modified-round nose ♦ Nose Deformities, Acquired, Nose Diseases, nose gear door uplock assembly, nose gear door uplock assy, nose gear uplock assembly, nose gear uplock assy, NOSE GENT, nose heaviness, nose in, nose leg, Nose Literature, Nose Neoplasms, Nose Out of Joint, Nose Tax ♦ POPE'S NOSE ♦ reentry nose cone ♦ Snap One's Nose Off, SNUB NOSE ♦ TO NOSE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nose": Tichorrhine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nose" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Sepedi (bee). |
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Screenplays | Even with a swollen nose, I can still smell a rat. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) I unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a window dresser (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) Not with a slightly smaller nose or slightly larger breasts (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) You have much more hair in your nose than my dad. (Uncle Buck; writing credit: John Hughes.) nose job (My Big Fat Greek Wedding; writing credit: Nia Vardalos) | |
Lyrics | But all of her friends, stuck up their nose (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) Or wrinkles her nose (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin) Now every second on the nose, the humdrum of the city grows (Tuesday's Dead; performing artist: Cat Stevens) With my pretty eyes, a cute nose and these fat ass lips (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat) And a hungry little boy with a runny nose (In the Ghetto; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Clever | A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. (references; author: Mark Twain) What flowers grow between your nose and your chin? Tulips. (references; author: unknown) To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose. (references; author: unknown) It's Not How You Pick Your Nose, But Where You Put The Booger. (references; author: unknown) I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love on the Nose (1974) The Froze Nose Knows (1970) Andy Nose His Onions (1927) Buster's Nose Dive (1926) A Nose in the Book (1920) | |
Song Titles | May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose (performing artist: Little Jimmy Dickens) | |
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 | This patient presented with tertiary syphilitic gummas of the nose mimicking basal cell carcinoma. The gummatous tumors are benign and if properly treated, will heal and the patient will recover in most cases. Credit: CDC. |  | Humans become infected by swallowing water contaminated by infected animals or through skin contact, especially with mucosal surfaces, such as the eyes or nose, or with broken skin. The disease is not known to be spread from person to person. Credit: CDC. |
 | Nose Cone Water Cooling. Credit: NASA. |  | X-1E On Rogers Dry Lake With Collapsed Nose Gear. Credit: NASA. |
 | X-2 with Collapsed Nose Wheel. Credit: NASA. |  | Lightning strike left small hole in the nose of NOAA C-130 research aircraft. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Mounting early TIROS satellite on nose of rocket prior to launch. TIROS satellites were 18-sided polygons, 22 1/2 inches high with a 42-inch diameter. They weighed between 270 and 300 pounds. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Securing cover for TIROS V satellite prior to launching. Lettering on nose cone reads: CAUTION EXPLOSIVE DEVICES ARE SET IN THIS VEHICLE CONSULT DIRECTIONS BEFORE HANDLING. The bulbous nose fairing protected the satellite during its ride through the atmosphere into space. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | Staff Sgt. Steven Brack adjusts the nose landing gear door on a C-130 Hercules. |  | Airman 1st Class Bryan Fields repairs a forward nose gear bushing. Fields is the dedicated crew chief for the 355th Wing commander's A-10 Thunderbolt II. (P.; photo by Airman 1st Class Latonia Brown).. |
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| "Dog's nose" by Mo Commentary: "My cute dog's nose :)." | "Up a little nose" by Keely Singer Commentary: "What a ham. I could take this girl's picture all day." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. | | Man blowing his nose. |
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Francois Rabelais | Plain as a nose in a man's face. |
Heinrich Heine | Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. |
John Gay | Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. |
Samuel Pepys | Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him. |
Shakespeare | Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. |
Thomas Fuller | He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. |
| A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. | |
William Shakespeare | And liberty plucks justice by the nose. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | As a duck with his eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The human face of Javert consisted of a snub nose, with two deep nostrils, which were bordered by large bushy whiskers that covered both his cheeks |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the driver was goggled and a rubber mask covered his nose and mouth |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I was at last bold enough to walk the street in his company, but kept my nose well stopped with rue, or sometimes with tobacco |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The nose is a manifest congealed drop or stalactite |
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Health | Sarcoidosis of the nose and eyelids. (references) | |
Not touching the nose or eyes is another. (references) | ||
Asymptomatic carriage in the nose and throat is common. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Brazil | Puga suffered four knife cuts, burns, a broken nose, and the loss of five teeth and part of an ear. (references) |
Bangladesh | Akbar stated that the detective branch repeatedly subjected him to electric shock, poured hot water mixed with powdered chilies (cayenne pepper) into his nose, and threatened to kill him if he did not confess. (references) | |
Burma | The most common forms of mistreatment are sleep and food deprivation, beatings coupled with around-the-clock questioning under bright lights, near suffocation with plastic bags, confinement in leg clamps, and forcing water in the nose and throat. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | The relatively high altitude of Mexico City, a long winter dry season, and air pollution can cause irritation of the respiratory tract, nose and eyes - the latter especially for contact lens wearers. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
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Dennis Miller | Between skin bleach, hair relaxer and that scale-model Barbie nose, it seems to me that the only person who obviously has a problem with Michael Jackson's race, is Michael Jackson. |
Nicole Kidman | I know. Because it was right for the character. It was right for, I mean Stephen Daldry didn't say to me, well I want you to do this role and you've got to wear a prosthetic nose, I mean. |
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| "Nose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.46% of the time. "Nose" is used about 4,285 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.46% | 4,262 | 2,304 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.26% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.19% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,285 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "nose" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Nose | Last name | 170 | 50,199 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "nose": aquiline nose ♦ big nose ♦ bleed at the nose ♦ bleeding of the nose ♦ blow one's nose ♦ blowing one's nose ♦ bottle nose ♦ brandy nose ♦ bridge of the nose ♦ bring one's nose to the grindstone ♦ bulbous nose ♦ bull nose ♦ cock one's nose ♦ cock up the nose ♦ copper nose ♦ don't poke your nose everywhere! ♦ feeder nose ♦ flat nose pliers ♦ follow one's nose ♦ fuselage nose ♦ hammer nose ♦ have a nose for ♦ have a stuffy nose ♦ have a wry nose ♦ hawk nose ♦ he has a good nose ♦ her nose turns up ♦ hit smb. square on the nose ♦ hold one's nose ♦ hook down one's nose at ♦ hook nose ♦ Horsehoe nose ♦ i caught him on the nose ♦ it is as plain as the nose in your face ♦ keep one's nose clean ♦ keep one's nose to the grindstone ♦ lead by the nose ♦ look down one's nose ♦ look down one's nose at ♦ make a long nose ♦ my nose keeps bleeding ♦ my nose tickles ♦ nose about ♦ nose after ♦ nose ape ♦ nose around ♦ nose bit ♦ nose bone ♦ nose candy ♦ nose cap ♦ nose cone ♦ Nose Diseases ♦ nose dive ♦ nose down ♦ nose drops ♦ nose ender ♦ nose fairing ♦ nose flute ♦ nose for ♦ nose gear ♦ nose gear door uplock assembly ♦ nose gear door uplock assy ♦ nose gear uplock assembly ♦ nose gear uplock assy ♦ nose guard ♦ nose hammer ♦ nose heaviness ♦ nose hole ♦ nose in ♦ nose into ♦ nose job ♦ nose key ♦ nose leaf ♦ nose leg ♦ Nose Neoplasms ♦ nose of wax ♦ nose one's way ♦ nose one's way forward ♦ nose out ♦ nose out a secret ♦ nose over ♦ nose past smth. ♦ nose piece ♦ nose radius ♦ nose rag ♦ nose rib ♦ nose ring ♦ nose section ♦ nose undercarriage leg ♦ nose up ♦ nose wheel ♦ nose wheel door ♦ not see an inch beyond one's nose ♦ not see beyond one's nose ♦ on the nose ♦ one's nose to the grindstone ♦ parson's nose ♦ pay through the nose ♦ pick smb.'s nose ♦ plain as the nose on one's face ♦ poke one's nose. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nose": nose-and, nose-art, nose-artist, nose-bag, nose-bags, nose-band, nose-bashing, nose-bleed, nose-bleeding, nose-bleeds, nose-blowing, nose-cap, nose-cone, nose-count, nose-dip, nose-dive, nose-dived, nose-diving, nose-dot, nose-down, nose-drops, nose-end, nose-first, nose-gay, nose-guard, nose-heaviness, nose-heavy, nose-high, nose-holding, nose-holes, nose-in, nose-in-the-air, nose-irritating, Nose-jewels, nose-job, nose-leaf, nose-low, nose-mounted, nose-pickin', nose-picking, nose-piercing, nose-pin, nose-powderings, nose-pulling, nose-ring, nose-rings, nose-rubbing, nose-shaped, nose-spin, nose-stroking, nose-suspended, nose-thumbing, nose-tickling, nose-tingling, nose-tip, nose-to-bumper, nose-to-nose, nose-to-tail, nose-up, nose-warmer, nose-wheel, nose-wheelie, nose-wipe, nose-wise, nose-wrinkling. | |
Ending with "nose": nose-to-nose. | |
Containing "nose": cut-off-his-nose-to-spite-his-face, ear-nose-and-throat doctor, hog-nose snake, Pug-nose eel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nose piercing | 754 | ear nose and throat doctor | 82 |
nose | 615 | nose screw | 81 |
nose ring | 546 | bleeding nose | 77 |
nose job | 542 | nose piercing picture | 73 |
nose bleeds | 318 | nose picking | 59 |
nose art | 275 | red nose | 54 |
red nose pitbull | 255 | bottle nose dolphin | 51 |
nose surgery | 201 | blue nose pitbull | 50 |
red nose pit bull | 197 | toe on the nose | 50 |
nose jewelry | 184 | runny nose | 47 |
broken nose | 173 | roman nose state park | 47 |
nose stud | 171 | anatomy of the nose | 45 |
ear nose and throat | 159 | world war 2 nose art | 44 |
bloody nose | 151 | big nose kate | 43 |
nose bleed | 142 | stuffy nose | 43 |
nose hair | 122 | cancer nose | 42 |
nose hair trimmer | 100 | nose sore | 40 |
big nose | 98 | nose pick | 39 |
plastic surgery nose | 93 | blue nose pit bull | 39 |
nose pit red | 87 | nose trimmer | 39 |
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| Language | Translations for "nose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | neus. (various references) | |
Albanian | hundë (boco, boko, conk, nozzle, smeller, snitch). (various references) | |
Arabic | تصيد (fish, pry, sleuth), أنف (beak, pecker, rhino, snitch, snoot, snout), إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, figure out, find, find out, get wind of, glean, hit, learn, rout, rummage, search, spot, strike, uncover, unearth), إكتشف بالشم (sniff), الجزء الناتئ من أى شئ, انف (hooter), جاسوس (courier, emissary, nark, operative, sleuth, spy, stool pigeon), شم (acumen, feel, scent, smell, sniff, snort, snuff), سبق بشق النفس, مقدمة السيارة, تطفل (cadge, crash, gatecrash, horn, impose, intrude, intrusion, meddle, mix in, obtrude, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snoop, snooping), تسلل (crept, infiltrate, infiltration, insinuate, penetrate, percolate, permeation, plant, skulk, sneak, spy out, steal in, steal out, stealth), تحشر, حشر أنفه, حاسة الشم (scent, sense of smell, smell), حاسة الشم الكلب, مقدم المركب أو الطائرة, خطم (muzzle, snout). (various references) | |
Asturian | narices. (various references) | |
Aymara | nasa. (various references) | |
Basque | sudur. (various references) | |
Bemba | umona. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | mohksisís. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нюх (flair), душа (breast, ghost, heart, inside, lifeblood, mastermind, nature, nuzzle, psyche, quest, scent, scrag, smell, smell about, smother, sniff, soul, spirit, stifle, throttle), плавам (float, navigate, range, sail, voyage), подушвам (get wind of, scent, smell, smell out, snuff, wind), пробивам си път (force one's way through, fret, push, push through, thrust one's way, work through), пъхам си носа в, букет (bouquet, nosegay, posy, race), аромат (aroma, fragrance, odor, odour, perfume, relish, sapor, savor, savour, scent, smell), мириша (smell, sniff, stink), доносчик (checker, fink), нос (boko, bow, conk, foreland, head, headland, hoe, hook, naze, nozzle, pecker, point, promontory, prow, smeller, stem, tongue), струйник (nozzle), обоняние (scent, smell), отвор (aperture, eye, hole, mesh, mortise, mouth, opening, orifice, perforation, port, vent), отгатвам (guess, hit, psyche, riddle, tell), вра се (buzz about, thrust oneself forward), шпионин (intelligencer, lurcher, nark, secret agent, spy), трия носа в, търся (ask for, go after, grope, hunt, hunt up, look about, look for, look up, prospect, quest, root about, scavenge, scratch around, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, skirmish), усет (eye, feel, feeling, flair, good sense, prehension, sense, sensibility), надушвам (nose out, wind). (various references) | |
Cebuano | ilong. (various references) | |
Chamorro | gui'eng. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鼻子 . (various references) | |
Cornish | frygow. (various references) | |
Czech | nos. (various references) | |
Danish | næse (noe head). (various references) | |
Dutch | neus (peak, point, summit, tip). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | sinca. (various references) | |
Esperanto | nazo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | nøs. (various references) | |
Farsi | مواجه شدن با (Encounter, Envisage), نوک برامده هرچیزی , عضوبویاءی , دماغه (Cape, Head, Headland), بینی مالیدن به , بینی (Nozzle), بوکشیدن (Scent, Sniff). (various references) | |
Finnish | nenä (point). (various references) | |
French | nez (bar nose, noe head), bec (nozzle). (various references) | |
Frisian | noas. (various references) | |
German | Nase (flair, gib head, handle, headland, horn, naze, overhang, promontory, scent), Bug (bow, fore, head, prow, shoulder, strut). (various references) | |
Greek | μύτη (nib, point, snout). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | hundë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אף (also, anger, even, no, snout, too, wrath). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szaglás (scent, sense of smell, smell, smelling, vent), orr (conk, muzzle, nasal, pecker, proboscides, proboscis, snitch, Snoot, snout, snozzle, toe). (various references) | |
Icelandic | nef. (various references) | |
Indonesian | hidung (snout). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | qingaq. (various references) | |
Irish | srón. (various references) | |
Italian | naso (smeller), fiuto (flair, scenting, smelling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼻 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きしゅ (beginning of a term, direction, horseman, noble birth, rider, standard-bearer, surprise move, type of equipment), じびいんこう (and throat, ear), はな (edge, end, flower, margin, nasal mucus, petal, point, snivel, snot, tip). (various references) | |
Kongo | nzunu. (various references) | |
Korean | 코 (Nasal). (various references) | |
Macedonian | nos. (various references) | |
Malay | hidung. (various references) | |
Manx | stroinney, stroinaghey (nose about, smelling), stroaney (nasal), gob (apex, beak, bow, bow of ship, headland, hook, jet, jut, lip of jug, mouth, muzzle, nib, nosepiece, pee of anchor, point, prominence, promontory, spit, spout). (various references) | |
Maori | ihu. (various references) | |
Maya | ni'. (various references) | |
Mohawk | o'nhonhsa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nese (flair). (various references) | |
Occitan | nas. (various references) | |
Papago | thahk. (various references) | |
Papiamen | nanishi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | osenay.(various references) | |
Polish | nos. (various references) | |
Portuguese | nariz (boko, conk, neb, pecker, proboscis, smeller, snout), odor (aroma, bloom, flavor, flavour, fragrance, fragrancy, odor, odour, perfume, scent, smell), cheiro (odor, odour, perfume, scent, smell). (various references) | |
Provencal | nas. (various references) | |
Romanian | nas (nozzle, Snoot, snout, spout). (various references) | |
Romany | nak. (various references) | |
Ruanda | ugutwi. (various references) | |
Russian | нос (boca, boko, naze, nozzle, olfactory organ, prow, smeller). (various references) | |
Samoan | isu. (various references) | |
Scottish | sròn (a nose, promontory). (various references) | |
Sepedi | dupa. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nosni (nasal, rhino), nos (beak, hooter, nozzle, proboscis, snout), prednji (anterior, fore, foreground, forward, front), lagano krenuti. (various references) | |
Shona | mhuno. (various references) | |
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