What's the difference between noise and silence?

Noise


Definition:

  • (n.) Sound of any kind.
  • (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".

Silence


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
  • (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
  • (n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
  • (n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
  • (n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.
  • (interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
  • (v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
  • (v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.
  • (v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
  • (4) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (5) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
  • (6) In addition, he describes a type of transference interpretation that is better not made, and emphasizes the transference value of silence on the part of the analyst at certain crucial moments in the analysis.
  • (7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (8) Transient ischemic electrical silence with Q waves in the absence of MI is a rare phenomenon and affects the anterior leads much more commonly than the inferior leads.
  • (9) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (10) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
  • (11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (12) 1:109-124, 1983) suggested that the insertion might have been selected to silence a disadvantageous bglR+ allele.
  • (13) He criticised attempts to create “safe spaces” by silencing controversial speakers such as Germaine Greer, who was recently targeted by students at the University of Cardiff for her position on transgender women.
  • (14) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (15) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
  • (16) Our data indicate that these elements exert their effect irrespective of orientation and position, suggesting that they are silencers.
  • (17) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
  • (18) • The News of the World was ordered to hand over details of the secret agreement which it struck with Gordon Taylor in the earlier case as well agreements it has made withMulcaire which are alleged to have bought his silence.
  • (19) But the case is widely seen as a means of silencing the man who has become Putin's loudest critic.
  • (20) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.