1. (

• noise

) 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. (

• noise ,
• dissonance ,
• racket

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

3. (

• noise ,
• interference ,
• disturbance ,

) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication ;

4. (

• noise

) 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. (

• noise ,

) 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. (

• randomness ,
• haphazardness ,
• stochasticity ,
• noise

) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan ;

1. (

• make_noise ,
• resound ,
• noise

) emit a noise ;