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'

the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; modern music is just noise to me

[ Syn: dissonance , racket ]

electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

[ Syn: interference , disturbance ]

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'

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'

the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

[ Syn: randomness , haphazardness , stochasticity ]

emit a noise

[ Syn: make noise , resound ]