Loud noise

  • 1loud noise — index outcry Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Noise health effects — are the health consequences of elevated sound levels. Elevated workplace or other noise can cause hearing impairment, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance, sleep disturbance, and decreased school performance. Changes in the immune… …

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  • 3Noise-induced hearing loss — (NIHL) is an increasingly prevalent disorder that results from exposure to high intensity sound, especially over a long period of time. Contents 1 Description 2 Mechanism 3 Types 3.1 …

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  • 4loud´ness — loud «lowd», adjective, adverb. –adj. 1. making a great sound; not quiet or soft: »a loud bang, a loud voice. The door slammed with a loud noise. 2. noisy; resounding: »loud music, a loud place to study. When all is gay With lamps, and loud With… …

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  • 5loud, loudly — Loud can be both an adjective and an adverb, but loudly may be used only as the latter. It is permissible to say Shout out loud or Shout out loudly. Such optional usage is common after such verbs as sing, talk, say, scream, and laugh, but among… …

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  • 6Noise Fest — was an influential festival of no wave noise music performances curated by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at the New York City art space White Columns in June 1981. Sonic Youth made their first live appearances at this show. [1] In mid 1981 Kim… …

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  • 7noise — [[t]nɔɪz[/t]] n. v. noised, nois•ing 1) sound, esp. of a loud, harsh, or confused kind 2) a sound of any kind 3) loud shouting or clamor 4) an electric disturbance in a communications system that interferes with reception of a signal 5) cvb inf… …

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  • 8noise — n. & v. n. 1 a sound, esp. a loud or unpleasant or undesired one. 2 a series of loud sounds, esp. shouts; a confused sound of voices and movements. 3 irregular fluctuations accompanying a transmitted signal but not relevant to it. 4 (in pl.)… …

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  • 9noise — Synonyms and related words: ALGOL, Aesopian language, Babel, Bedlam let loose, COBOL, EDP, FORTRAN, Greek, aimlessness, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, amplitude, angular data, argot, assembler, atmospherics, auditory effect, auditory… …

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  • 10noise pollution — noun (U) very loud or continuous loud noise which is considered to be harmful to people …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English