What's the difference between loud and noisy?

Loud


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.
  • (superl.) Clamorous; boisterous.
  • (superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.
  • (superl.) Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.
  • (adv.) With loudness; loudly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
  • (2) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
  • (3) This was followed by loud applause for Gündogan and De Bruyne, when each was later taken off.
  • (4) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (5) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
  • (6) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
  • (7) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
  • (8) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
  • (9) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
  • (10) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
  • (11) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
  • (12) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
  • (13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (14) Voice control, a punishment technique based on loud commands, has been used widely in pediatric dentistry.
  • (15) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
  • (16) In this experiment, observers were asked to match the loudness of partially masked test-tone bursts in one ear by adjusting the level of unmasked bursts presented to the other ear.
  • (17) But the evidence from the nation at large is loud and clear.
  • (18) A loudness meter that combines the spectral shapes of different sounds to produce an overall perceived magnitude offers greater promise.
  • (19) More important, however, context simultaneously affected the degree of loudness integration as measured in terms of matching stimulus levels.
  • (20) He's been speaking loudly, then realising the other customers had begun to listen in to what he was saying, he lowers it again, before continuing: – There were military planes flying low over the forest.

Noisy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.
  • (superl.) Full of noise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (2) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
  • (3) Patients with steep sloping audiograms understand better and patients with a conductive hearing loss component understand less in noisy circumstances with a hearing aid.
  • (4) Running speech was used as input signal and STI was calculated from the envelopes of the squared, noise-free speech signal and of the processed, squared, noisy signal in 23 critical bands.
  • (5) The method of this 3-DCT system could treat rather noisy images scanned with low radiation exposure because of the high contrast ratio (CT number) between bones and soft tissues, in the CT images.
  • (6) Factor 3 (mixed audio) was defined by accuracy at decoding discrepant cues and "noisy" audio cues.
  • (7) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
  • (8) On the basis of these studies of noisy neural nets we proposed a model for epileptic phenomena and a theory leading to kindling effect of epilepsy.
  • (9) Become a resident of N1 (Islington), and you might live in a flat with no heating above a noisy main road, but goddammit, you're going to eat quinoa.
  • (10) The chief executive, Ross McEwan, warned the rest of the year would be “noisy” as the long list of mistakes from the past continued to catch up with the bank.
  • (11) The theoretical function described coherences between recording sites of small separation for linear, non-dispersive, dissipative waves moving on an infinite homogeneous plane medium, and driven by spatio-temporally noisy inputs.
  • (12) "People can enjoy music – they can converse in surroundings like here, in a foreign language, in a noisy place.
  • (13) Three types of test objects were superimposed on noisy backgrounds and observed by 58 subjects: large low-contrast disks to simulate tumors, small disks to simulate calcifications, and bars to simulate blood vessels.
  • (14) 1.20pm: Our Guardian beat blogger in Leeds, John Baron, reports on the protests in the city: More than 2,000 noisy students have marched through University of Leeds and the half a mile into Leeds city city.
  • (15) In contrast, models with non-perfect (noisy) performance were frequently able to double or triple their reduced efficiency by adapting to the stimulus intensity.
  • (16) Hodgson’s selection must have been a source of encouragement for the sokoli and it was a cause for frustration among the stands packed with England’s noisy followers.
  • (17) In the course of the evaluation experiment several kinds of speech stimuli including clean speech, bandpass-filtered speech, and noisy speech were presented to three different pitch extractors.
  • (18) Last week the prime minister said he found windfarms noisy and “visually awful” and disclosed that the government’s aim in the RET deal was to reduce the number of wind turbines as much as possible, given the makeup of the Senate.
  • (19) You are lying down with your head in a noisy and tightfitting fMRI brain scanner, which is unnerving in itself.
  • (20) A group of 15 patients with complaints of having difficulties in understanding speech, especially in noisy surroundings in spite of (nearly) normal pure-tone audiograms, was subjected to a battery of speech-audiometric tests.