noise
英 [n??z]
美[n??z]
- n. [環境] 噪音；響聲；雜音
- vt. 謠傳
- vi. 發出聲音；大聲議論
- n. (Noise)人名；(英)諾伊斯
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詞態變化
復數:?noises;第三人稱單數:?noises;過去式:?noised;過去分詞:?noised;現在分詞:?noising;
中文詞源
noise 噪音
詞源不詳，通常認為來自nausea,暈船，惡心。引申詞義嘔吐聲，大叫，后用于指噪音。
英文詞源
- noise
- noise: [13] Unlikely as it may seem, the ancestor of English noise meant ‘sickness’. It comes from Latin nausea, source also, of course, of English nausea. This was used colloquially for the sort of ‘hubbub’ or ‘confusion’ which is often coincident with someone being sick (and particularly seasick, which was what nausea originally implied), and Old French took it over, as noise, with roughly these senses. They later developed to ‘noisy dispute’, and modern French noise has retained the ‘dispute’ element of this, while English noise has gone for the ‘intrusive sound’.
=> nausea, nautical, navy - noise (n.)
- early 13c., "loud outcry, clamor, shouting," from Old French noise "din, disturbance, uproar, brawl" (11c., in modern French only in phrase chercher noise "to pick a quarrel"), also "rumor, report, news," apparently from Latin nausea "disgust, annoyance, discomfort," literally "seasickness" (see nausea).
Another theory traces the Old French word to Latin noxia "hurting, injury, damage." OED considers that "the sense of the word is against both suggestions," but nausea could have developed a sense in Vulgar Latin of "unpleasant situation, noise, quarrel" (compare Old Proven?al nauza "noise, quarrel"). Meaning "loud or unpleasant sound" is from c. 1300. Replaced native gedyn (see din). - noise (v.)
- late 14c., "to praise; to talk loudly about," from noise (n.). Related: Noised; noising.
