Noise - Definition

n 1: sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant
sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard
indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework
display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
2: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern
music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance,
racket]
3: electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb
communication [syn: noise, interference, disturbance]
4: a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of
the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was
he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making
as loud a noise as he could"
5: incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or
meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech
concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
6: the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan [syn:
randomness, haphazardness, stochasticity, noise]
v 1: emit a noise [syn: make noise, resound, noise]