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Make Noise

Definition: Make Noise

Make Noise

Verb

1. Emit a noise.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Make Noise

Synonyms: noise (v), resound (v). (additional references)

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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)

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Modern Usage: Make Noise

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Make Noise

DomainTitle

Books

  • Make News and Make Noise!: How to Publicize Your Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Make Noise

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Make Noise

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Make Noise

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

joyful lyrics make noise

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Make Noise

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 

  

(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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Make Noise

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Anagrams: Make Noise

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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