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Definition: Make Noise |
Make NoiseVerb1. Emit a noise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Make NoiseSynonyms: noise (v), resound (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Make Noise |
| English words defined with "make noise": chatter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "make noise": Unix conspiracy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "make noise": Strepent. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You just don't sneak up on people in a graveyard. You make noise when you walk, you stomp, or yodel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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![]() | Tuna purse seiner is headed towards school of tuna to encircle with net. Workboat that helps hold net during deployment is still on starboard stern. Smaller vessel in water is used to make noise to scare tuna into staying within confines of net prior to ship and workboat deploying and closing the net. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Purse seine being closed prior to harvesting the tuna. The small boat is used to make noise and keep the tuna within the net prior to closing. Credit: Fisheries. |
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Health | Since sand flies do not make noise when they fly, people may not realize they are present. (references) | |
Using "knockout" animal models-animals genetically engineered to lack a certain gene-scientists are able to visualize how mutations in genes cause animals to become anxious, make noise, rear, freeze, or become hypervigilant. (references) | ||
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| 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 |
joyful lyrics make noise | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "make noise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bëj zhurmë (barrack, clamor, clamour, jangle, make a noise, riot). (various references) | |
Arabic | ضج (bore, buzz, din, resound), صرخ (call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, holler, outcry, pop off, scream, shout, shriek, squawk, squeak, yell), خلق صخب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вдигам шум (create, make a noise, roister). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鬧 (make noise or disturbance). (various references) | |
French | faire du tapage, faire du bruit (make a noise), crier. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשקשק (jangle, jingle, rustle), ל"שתקשק, לרעוש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zajt csap (raise cain), zajoskodik, zajong (bluster, clamor, clamour, make a noise, to be obstreperous, to din, to jangle, to make noise, to wake snakes). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berbising (be dazed). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 'ぐ (to be, to be excited, to clamor, to make noise). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドタバタやる (to be noisy, to make noise), さわぐ (to be alarmed, to be annoying, to be excited, to be troublesome, to clamor, to kick up a fuss, to make a noise, to make merry, to make noise). (various references) | |
Maya | che'eh (to make noise). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akemay oisenay.(various references) | |
Romanian | face zgomot (bang, rattle, roister). (various references) | |
Russian | шуметь (brawl, din, jangle, make a noise, rag, raise jack, whir, whirr). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | praviti buku (make a noise). (various references) | |
Turkish | gürültü yapmak (bang about, be too noisy, kick up a row, kick up a shine, row), gürültü etmek (be too noisy, clamor, clamour, crash, din, noise, pother, racket, vociferate), gürültü çıkarmak (noise it, pong). (various references) | |
Turkmen | wagyrdamak, gykylyklamak. (various references) | |
Welsh | tyrfo (make commotion). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | concrepabunt, increpa, increpabant, increpabat, increpabit, increpabo, increpandum, increpans, increpantibus, increpare, increparet, increpasti, increpat, increpaveris, increpaverunt, increpavit, increpem, increpet, increpueris, increpuerit, increpui, increpuisti, increpuit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-k-m-n-o-s" | |
-2 letters: anomies, eikones, kamseen, kinemas, meanies, sokeman, sokemen. | |
-3 letters: akenes, amines, amnios, animes, anomie, eikons, enemas, enokis, eonism, eosine, inseam, kamsin, kinase, kinema, koines, meanie, mensae, mesian, minkes, monies, seamen, semina, skeane. | |
-4 letters: aeons, akees, akene, amens, amies, amine, amino, amins, amnio, amoks, anime, anise, askoi, eikon, enema, enoki, eosin, ikons, kains, kames, kanes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-k-m-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: noisemaker. | |
+2 letters: noisemakers. | |
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