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Noisemaker

Definition: Noisemaker

Noisemaker

Noun

1. A device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration.

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

Date "noisemaker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

 

Crosswords: Noisemaker

English words defined with "noisemaker": hornThunderer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Noisemaker

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Crude noisemaker. (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

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

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Commercial Usage: Noisemaker

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Noisemaker

Illustrations:
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Sounds Captioned with "Noisemaker".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Noisemaker.Noisemaker.
Noisemaker.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Noisemaker

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

noisemaker

5
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Modern Translations: Noisemaker

Language Translations for "noisemaker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

רעשן (clapper, rattler, rowdy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oisemakernay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Noisemaker

Derivations

Words beginning with "noisemaker": noisemakers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Noisemaker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Niemayer, nienaber, noisenik. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Noisemaker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-k-m-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: monkeries.

-2 letters: emersion, kerosine, monikers, moraines, ramekins, romaines, romanise, sneakier.

-3 letters: anomies, arenose, eikones, enamors, erasion, ermines, irksome, kamseen, kinemas, marines, meaners, meanies, merinos, mikrons, moaners, moniker, moraine, moreens, oarsmen, ramekin, remains, remakes, renames, romaine, seamier, seminar, seriema, smokier, snakier, sneaker, sokeman, sokemen.

-4 letters: aeries, aimers, airmen, akenes, ameers, amines, amnios, animes, anomie, ariose.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-k-m-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: noisemakers.

 

+5 letters: mountebankeries.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Noisemaker


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 69 73 65 6D 61 6B 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    ..    ...    .    --    .-    -.-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01101001 01110011 01100101 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#109 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 0069 0073 0065 006D 0061 006B 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48817585717967777184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Sounds
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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