What's the difference between noisy and turbulent?

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.

Turbulent


Definition:

  • (a.) Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
  • (a.) Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
  • (a.) Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
  • (2) The visualized turbulent flow was consistent with a ventriculoseptal defect but also appeared to extend posteriorly into the left atrium in a direct line with the septal communication.
  • (3) A Bernoulli 'free-fall' numerical model is shown to reproduce the principal features of such casting, with some evidence of viscosity limitation of the turbulent flow at long casting lengths.
  • (4) When there is turbulence in the vein lumen the volume of reflux becomes excessive and causes so much adjustment that constrictor tone is abolished.
  • (5) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
  • (6) Shearer has long been expected to take the reins at St James' Park at some point but it is something of a surprise that he has chosen to do so amid such turbulence and uncertainty over the club's future.
  • (7) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
  • (8) Doppler and color flow Doppler examinations demonstrated nonpulsatile and turbulent blood flow within the lesion, consistent with a diagnosis of umbilical artery aneurysm.
  • (9) On the other hand, the device is more sensitive to the turbulences induced by the subject's own breathing.
  • (10) In 1 patient the clinical diagnosis of arteriovenous fistulae was confirmed by color Doppler which demonstrated a continuous turbulent flow within the femoral vein.
  • (11) We conclude that flow disturbance or turbulence is a major factor in the development of venous intimal-medial hyperplasia in arteriovenous loop grafts.
  • (12) "The external environment provides a testing backdrop for these results, and all our industries face some degree of turbulence," Scardino said.
  • (13) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
  • (14) The Brontes lived in stirring times and in a turbulent region.
  • (15) With the sample volume in the right ventricle a continuous turbulent flow was observed.
  • (16) Pathologic regurgitant jets were seen as high-velocity, systolic-retrograde turbulent flow across the prosthesis.
  • (17) Because maximum expiratory flow-volume rates in normal subjects are dependent on gas density, the resistance between alveoli and the point at which dynamic compression begins (R(us)) is mostly due to convective acceleration and turbulence.
  • (18) Clinical applications of this index suggest the possibility of using it further as a detection tool for diseases that generate turbulent noises.
  • (19) The usual high pressure injections also result in turbulent flow conditions.
  • (20) Steering the debate through these turbulent waters with more than his usual sense of mischief was David Dimbleby .