MAKE NOISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make noise mean? 

• MAKE NOISE (verb)
  The verb MAKE NOISE has 1 sense:

1. emit a noise

  Familiarity information: MAKE NOISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE NOISE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emit a noise

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

make noise; noise; resound

Hypernyms (to "make noise" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make noise"):

sizzle (make a sound like frying fat)

howl; roar (make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles)

purl; sough (make a murmuring sound)

claxon; honk (use the horn of a car)

hum (make a low continuous sound)

crackle; crunch; scranch; scraunch (make a crushing noise)

creak; screak; screech; skreak; squeak; whine (make a high-pitched, screeching noise)

racket (make loud and annoying noises)

brattle; clack; clatter (make a rattling sound)

clitter; stridulate (make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures)

drown out (make imperceptible)

jangle; jingle; jingle-jangle (make a sound typical of metallic objects)

scream (make a loud, piercing sound)

backfire (emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire)

ring out (sound loudly)

blare; blast (make a strident sound)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)