{
    "term": "noise",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a sound, especially when it is loud, unpleasant or frightening",
            "sensetop": "above the noise",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was a rattling noise coming from the back of the car."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What's that noise?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I heard a loud noise and turned around."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't **make a noise**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were making too much noise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was woken by the noise of a car starting up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was constant **background noise** from the motorway."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Measures are needed to reduce **noise levels**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had to shout above the noise of the traffic.",
                    "contextForm": "above the noise"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was making a lot of noise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The deafening noise of the machine died away to a rumble."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The slightest noise will wake him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were strange noises coming from the kitchen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We could hear funny little sucking noises."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wood is used to deaden the noise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the noise created by aircraft"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the noise from the engine room"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't make so much noise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She uses the ambient noise of the water to keep the audience uneasy."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deafening", "loud", "awful"],
                "verb + noise": ["create", "emit", "generate"],
                "noise + verb": ["come from something", "become louder", "get louder"],
                "noise + noun": ["level", "pollution", "reduction"],
                "preposition": ["above the noise", "over the noise", "noise from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "extra electrical or electronic signals that are not part of the signal that is being broadcast or transmitted and which may damage it",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Place the devices as close as possible to the sensors to reduce noise in the signal."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "information that is not wanted and that can make it difficult for the important or useful information to be seen clearly",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There is some noise in the data which needs to be reduced."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an important person",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to complain loudly",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I will continue to make as much noise as I can to support the scheme."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to talk in an indirect way about something that you think you might do",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company has been making noises about closing several factories."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to complain about something",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make remarks of the kind mentioned, even when that is not what you really think",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He made all the right noises at the meeting yesterday *(= said what people wanted to hear)*."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nɔɪz/",
                "audio": "no/noise/noise__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nɔɪz/",
                "audio": "no/noise/noise__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘quarrelling’): from Old French, from Latin nausea ‘seasickness’, from Greek nausia, from naus ‘ship’."
}