noise

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And you know what - noise is good.

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Quick take

sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of noise gathered in one view.

noun

the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"

noun

electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for noise.

noun

the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"

noun

electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

noun

a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"

noun

incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"

noun

the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

verb

emit a noise

Example sentences

And you know what - noise is good.

It's easier to see who and what people are, and you need people more to bring you through all the noise.

I almost skipped this link; I assumed it was typical borring blog noise.

There is lots of much better stuff sitting on the New page which is being crowded out by noise that I could go read in two hundred other places.

Until there is a credible alternative to HN, I think you'll still see a lot of signal, even if there is more noise than there used to be.

The signal-to-noise ratio has dropped slightly compared to when I started reading about four years ago, but this is still a great place for technical discussion.

To let the users know that they could speak, we'd blip one or two of those dots up - hardly anything at all, and indistinguishable from noise, but it let users know stuff was happening.

I cannot concentrate, cannot even think clearly if there is almost any kind of noise - chatter, music, phone talks nearby, traffic noise from the street when the window is open or almost anything else, including my own voice.

A couple of thousand people gather outside the parliament building for a few days to make noise and listen to speeches.-- The public voted against the Icesave deal because the there were unresolved legal issues around it.

You also get a "hit" of dopamine when there is a loud, surprising noise, and any number of similar situations. Including good, natural situations. Including normal sex. This doesn't mean that "your dopamine levels get out of whack".When you say that 'life just becomes more dull' and 'distracting yourself from negative emotions' it sounds like you are describing dysthymia or depression more than anything specific to porn.