(n.) Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.
(n.) Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report.
(n.) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
(v. i.) To sound; to make a noise.
(v. t.) To spread by rumor or report.
(v. t.) To disturb with noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(2) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(3) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(4) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(5) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
(6) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
(7) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
(8) As a result of measures taken to reduce artifacts and to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, the measurements were performed reliably, with little inconvenience for the patients; all measurements could be used for analysis.
(9) For frozen noises, the same sample of noise was presented throughout a block of 50 trials; for the random noises, different samples of noise were used in each interval of the trials.
(10) Hospital noise has repeatedly been demonstrated to exceed levels recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
(11) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(12) In one normal ear, ten noise trauma ears, 11 Meniere disease ears, and 24 eighth nerve lesion ears to reflexes or reflex decay that were suggestive or retrocochlear lesions were observed.
(13) Eventually, when the noise died down, the pair made a dash for it, taking refuge in a nearby restaurant for the rest of the night.
(14) The subjects were exposed to manganese, iron , chromium compounds, thermal radiation, high temperature and noise.
(15) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
(16) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(17) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(18) Although a clean step response or the ensemble average of several responses contaminated with noise is needed for the generation of the filter, random noise of magnitude less than or equal to 0.5% added to the response to be corrected does not impair the correction severely.
(19) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
(20) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
Ruckus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There was unconvincing talk of an injury but as journalists waited in the car park for players after the game, we became aware of a ruckus on the Togo team bus.
(2) Dridi and Khalil's bags were stolen in the ruckus but Dridi's was returned by an Egyptian who managed to wrestle it back.
(3) But imagine the ruckus that Duggan would have caused, if you'd held his boy up on the stairs, impeding him from getting to the next boiler on his list, and shortening his plunder opportunities.
(4) After initially appearing to declare that the bill had gone through, lieutenant governor David Dewhurst said at about 3am that it had passed by 19 votes to 10 – but added that the "ruckus and noise going on" had prevented him from completing the formalities required to rubber-stamp it into law.
(5) There was, of course, the magnificent ruckus at the US embassy in Ankara, and the gloriously quotable lecture Pinter gave on torture.
(6) Sano added: “I have to protect my family and staff from persistent attacks and harassment over the ruckus.
(7) If you have a boat letting in water in the middle of a storm, you had better be at the wheel António Horta-Osório He is no doubt hoping that these characteristics will mean a ruckus can be avoided over his £11.5m pay packet - which has to be approved at the bank’s annual meeting on 14 May, just a week after the general election.
(8) Caught between Tony Abbott’s untenable $80bn in cuts to hospitals and schools and his own cabinet’s unwillingness to increase federal spending or taxes, Turnbull found a bit of extra money and then raised an almighty ruckus with a wild plan to solve the rest of the problem.
(9) Describing the event online as a "ruckus street party" organisers said they were rallying against gentrification, racist police murders, outrageous rent prices and "the displacement of all that is queer".
(10) Perhaps the most striking aspect of this particular ruckus was Shakey’s admission that he “used to line up and get my latte every day”.
(11) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, also sought to smooth over the ruckus.
(12) There's a bit of a ruckus as they celebrate and some Uruguayan players express their displeasure with a few of them as well as with the referee.
(13) Recently, there’s been some ruckus about suggestions made by Noel Pearson , which drew on earlier submissions to the committee made by his Cape York Institute.
(14) An enterprising young promoter from a prominent Sydney bar has taken the opportunity to follow the crowd handing out free drink cards, while a confused tourist is trying to pick someone out of the crowd to explain all this ruckus.
(15) Back in the “less is less” session in Canberra, Australia’s prime minister also declined to say anything more than absolutely necessary about what Trump had given Australia by way of undertakings on the refugee resettlement deal – presumably lest Breitbart find out, and start a nasty ruckus.
(16) "Thankfully, it didn't take long for the ruckus to again settle down.
(17) In the end, Republican lawmakers had to admit defeat: "With all the ruckus and noise going on," Mr Dewhurst said, he could not complete administrative duties to make the vote official and sign the bill.
(18) David Dewhurst, the Texas lieutenant governor, told reporters that a 19-10 vote in favour of the bill came within time, but "with all the ruckus and noise going on, I couldn't sign the bill".
(19) Win Pe said shortly after the gun blast there was “a ruckus outside, and I thought, now, now, come in now.
(20) This is the thing that caused the big ruckus when Ben Affleck was here.