What's the difference between noisy and nosy?

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.

Nosy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since 1977, the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar has been studying, during six surveys, the arboviruses of Nosy-Be area, in the north-west of Madagascar.
  • (2) In that study, assessments of the subjects were carried out with two psychiatric rating scales, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (BPRS and NOSIE), and two clinical evaluations (psychiatrist and nurse).
  • (3) In a double-blind trial of chlorpromazine and thiothixene conducted with 79 acutely ill, newly hospitalized schizophrenic patients, chlorpromazine and thiothixene were shown to be equally effective in producing meaningful symptomatic improvment over an average period of approximately 3 weeks, as measured by Global Assessments (CGI), BPRS, and NOSIE.
  • (4) We don’t want to just be a nice video player for kids: it’s an incentive for us to really invest in the curriculum in the games, and new features like offline viewing, which we added earlier this year.” Hopster is part of a flurry of British startups exploring digital entertainment for children: there is also digital books store Me Books ; the creativity-focused Night Zookeeper ; and apps and books publisher Nosy Crow to name just three.
  • (5) HVA levels correlated positively with social interest and total positive scores on the Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE-30) and negatively with lassitude and slowness of movements on the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS).
  • (6) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
  • (7) The predictive value of the NOSIE, a ward behaviour rating scale, was investigated in a group of long-stay patients.
  • (8) Psychometric data were obtained by use of three external-assessment schemes (HAMD, BPRS, and NOSIE) and two self-assessment procedures (TSD, POMS).
  • (9) The factor structure and its invariance of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient evaluation (NOSIE) were investigated in a Dutch psycho-geriatric population (N = 247) and compared with those of a short stay psychiatric population (N = 177).
  • (10) Forty schizophrenic patients were rated both by nurses (using the NOSIE) and by themselves on days soon after they had completed a period of activity.
  • (11) Read this interview for more on Nosy Crow’s strategy.
  • (12) Like previous Nosy Crow apps, Jack and the Beanstalk swerves some of the elements of the story: the giant doesn't get killed on-screen, just as the first two little pigs didn't die in the company's first fairytale app – they ran to shelter in the third little pig's house of bricks instead.
  • (13) "I wasn't covered up because I was just basically following the crowd to be nosy … there was all different kinds like: black girls, white boys, vice versa, they was just of all ages, from 14, 15 to big adults … You're in shock really, because … everyone was just starting to smash out the windows of every shop around them.
  • (14) One case of clinical AIDS was diagnosed in 1988 in a Franco-Malagasy subject living in NOSY BE.
  • (15) Clinical examinations were performed by the doctor, using the EACG rating scale (a French version of the Sandoz Clinical Assessment Geriatric scale), and by the nurse, using the NOSIE scale, when patients entered the trial and repeated after 2, 4 and 6 months.
  • (16) Global therapeutic effect was confirmed and illustrated by effects on specific variables (List of Cerebral Symptoms, function test, NOSIE) evaluated by analysis of covariance.
  • (17) GAS, NOSIE, and BPRS scores all showed significant improvement.
  • (18) A stepwise regression analysis showed BPRS Activation and NOSIE Manifest Psychosis to be of significance, the BPRS subscale displaying a positive and the NOSIE subtest a negative partial correlation to SF frequency.
  • (19) It was concluded that most of the NOSIE was cross-culturally robust and relevant to its declared purpose.
  • (20) TRH 600 mug or placebo was administered intravenously on 4 consecutive days in a double-blind cross-over design and the schizophrenic symptoms were scored daily by use of two rating scales (CPRS and NOSIE).