noisemaking
- noun
- /ˈnɔɪzˌmeɪkɪŋ/
:
producción de ruido
- He was reprimanded for the noisemaking that disturbed the neighbors late at night.
Examples
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The use of smoke, mirrors, and noisemaking has been a con artist's method for winning an argument or selling a questionable idea or product since time immemorial.
Blog text (8) -
The blues, of course, have a distinguished tradition of noisemaking and experimentation, but that tradition often produces tension where it encounters generic orthodoxies.
Academic text (2002) -
They are powerful and painted, and they carry noisemaking equipment—tin cans and tom-toms—and as more and more of them materialize—
Fiction book (1996) -
The researcher engaged Adam in 20 minutes of naturalistic play activities like hitting and squeezing a big ball, shaking noisemaking toys, and putting a hat on and pulling it off the researcher’s head.
Academic text (2013) -
A couple of weeks ago (it felt like years), he had read that when the German front lines had been informed of Kitchener's death, they had started ringing bells and banging pots and pans in celebration; the noisemaking had spread up and down the German trenches, from the Belgian coast to the Swiss frontier.
Fiction book (1991) -
The noisemaking from the construction site next door kept me awake all night.
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The children's noisemaking during the party was both loud and joyful.
Synonyms
172
1.0
A loud shout showing pain, anger or strong feeling
129
1.0
Loud sounds people make to show strong feelings, for example at sports games
92
1.9
A very loud high, piercing noise that hurts the ears
58
3.3
A very loud high sound that hurts your ears
15
3.0
A loud, very high sound like a scream made by a person or animal
8
5.5
A loud continuous noise that repeats and sounds forceful
6
7.1
Shouting comments to interrupt and upset a person speaking
1
2.5
Loud sounds that continue and make it hard to think or sleep
A loud, constant noise that makes it hard to think
Antonyms
How Disruptive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Noisemaking comes from joining noise and making. Noise means 'a loud or annoying sound' and making means 'the act of producing', so noisemaking is the act of producing loud or annoying sounds.