white noise
10
3.9
- noun
- /waɪt nɔɪz/
- Specialized
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ruido blanco
- Alongside sleep trackers, especially, white noise machines have gained popularity.
- background white noise
So how loud or how soft should that white noise be while you learn?
- So how loud or how soft should that white noise be while you learn?
- Like the white noise is usually less bassy.
- It is the Marpac Dome Classic original white noise machine.
- OK, I'm going to throw throw on some white noise.
- Rhett, begin the white noise and put on your blinders.
- The Arduino also controls a transistor white noise generator, which acts like a drum hi hat.
- In addition, I use low level white noise.
- You're also hearing the tuning of the white noise in the sample that gives it its specific sound.
- noise, wind noise, maybe even pedestrian murmur, just sort of white noise outside.
- And what they found was that there was no reliable robust directional effect of white noise machines on sleep.
- I mean, I think ultimately all people could benefit from white noise.
- Instead, it gets tainted and all that extra white noise just throws everything off and makes it difficult.
Examples
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Now, though, the offices were silent, and even the white noise machines had been unplugged.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her helmet rang with the white noise of the emergency beacon.
Fiction book (1995) -
Also get a white noise thing like the white noise app for your phone.
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We need some white noise in the background.
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Planes are like school buses for me; the white noise of the engine puts me to sleep.
Blog text (16) -
Soft, soporific music was playing in the background, white noise, the kind no one really listens to.
Fiction book (1996) -
Then the line goes dead, and the image disintegrates in a hiss of white noise.
Fiction book (1990) -
It also has integrated white noise, so I can ask Siri to play some white noise.
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I closed my eyes and listened to the white noise of the air conditioning.
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Babies love the white noise on planes, and the young ones tend to sleep.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound clearly denotes a particular kind of noise—so a learner who knows 'white' and 'noise' can infer it labels a specific quality of sound—but the precise technical sense (an equal-intensity, all-frequency spectrum analogous to white light) depends on an analogy to 'white light' and on acoustic knowledge that many B1 learners lack. Because the modifier gives a useful clue but the full, technical meaning is metaphorical and not fully predictable from the constituents, this is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
White noise gets its name from white light, which is made when all colors mix together. So white noise is a mix of many sounds that can 'cover' other noises and help people sleep or focus.