What's the difference between noise and silent?

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".

Silent


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
  • (a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
  • (a.) Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
  • (a.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
  • (a.) Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
  • (n.) That which is silent; a time of silence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (2) The prevalence of greater than or equal to 1 mm ST-segment depression was 22% (symptomatic in 25%, and silent in 75%) and did not differ between groups with and without cardiac events.
  • (3) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
  • (4) Some features suggest an important reduction in myocardial oxygen supply, in addition to an increase in demand, as a mechanism for silent ischemic episodes occurring during daily life.
  • (5) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
  • (6) Previous studies in Ghana had shown that primary infections with Epstein-Barr virus in infants under the age of two years remain silent and evoke antibody responses different from those seen in infectious mononucleosis.
  • (7) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (8) Silent myocardial ischemia is increasingly recognized as a common phenomenon in a variety of people with coronary artery disease.
  • (9) In addition, comparison of the rates of evolution among the eight viral genes, excluding the P2 gene, revealed a rapid and roughly equal rate of silent substitution for different genes.
  • (10) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
  • (11) He stayed silent when the teacher asked him a question and afterwards I found him standing in the middle of the classroom looking totally lost as everyone ran around.
  • (12) A total of 188 ischemic episodes was observed; 163 (87%) were silent and accounted for a total ischemic duration of 5,771 minutes.
  • (13) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
  • (14) Repair within the gene was shown to be much more efficient than that in silent downstream sequences or in the genome overall.
  • (15) The non-neurosecretory interneuron L10 synthesizes a 12,000 dalton protein, whereas the silent neurosecretory cell L5 synthesizes a lower molecular weight peptide.
  • (16) To date, no systematic study on silent ischaemia in patients with demand-induced right ventricular dysfunction has been reported.
  • (17) Patients with all forms of angina, stable effort and unstable rest angina, and those with coronary artery spasm have very frequent episodes of silent myocardial ischemia during ordinary activity.
  • (18) Hypertensive subjects with other cardiovascular risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia or smoking and with ventricular extrasystoles, reflecting the presence of silent ischemia, can be considered to be at high risk of cardiac death.
  • (19) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
  • (20) These calcifications are often clinically silent, but they sometimes accompany a recurrence of the initial painful symptomatology.