adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a noisy eater (= someone who makes unpleasant noises with their mouth as they eat )
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I can't stand noisy eaters!
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The staff had heard it before on numerous occasions but nothing as severe or as noisy as on this particular night.
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The air was not as noisy as I thought it would be.
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Noisy environment Quite justifiably, hospitals have been labelled as noisy environments.
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It may not be as noisy as an old dot-matrix, but you could easily find its sound levels disturbing and intrusive.
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The camp was a most as noisy as the point of work had been during the day.
so
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Their late-night shouting match was so noisy it kept staff awake.
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What makes a tree so noisy ?
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It's funny, Paula's so noisy , yet Graham is the most silent boy you could ever imagine.
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Getting closer, the swarm was so noisy it sounded like a war all by itself.
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It was so noisy and she couldn't see Lais anywhere.
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Because the cafés were so noisy and crowded, we had started working on our poems in my room at the Colegio.
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It's just so noisy in here.
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It was quiet, but perhaps that was because their entrance had been so noisy .
too
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It was too noisy , and the noise was not aircraft engines.
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Ninth Avenue was too noisy for him.
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The nurse in charge, as coldly white as the bed and the room, said they were too noisy .
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Then the artists have to move out because it's too noisy and expensive.
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Living at the county jail in downtown Sacramento, he said the area around his cell was too noisy to sleep.
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The kettle was getting too noisy by half.
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The other home was still too noisy .
very
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There's no real music there, it's a late-night disco and very noisy , too!
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Hercules became very happy and very drunk and very noisy .
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I was sad to see the martins go, even though they had often been very noisy at night and kept me awake.
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It was very noisy in the Stratocruise that night, the usual Friday crowd.
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The Stevens brothers, who had built up Garth Enterprises, got very drunk and very noisy .
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There, every morning soon after dawn, two pigeons performed an elaborate and very noisy mating dance.
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Then there's the enclosures which are very noisy and you just have to hope you've won.
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Mezzo is big, busy and very noisy .
■ NOUN
crowd
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He was never hesitant or nervous, even before the largest and noisiest crowds .
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It was a vast place, a noisy crowd .
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There were queues outside now - a young and noisy crowd .
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Few of all the noisy crowd around knew of the change that had taken place.
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Starlings usually come in a noisy crowd , sparrows in twos and threes, while the robin is more often alone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bars are too smoky and noisy .
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People started to complain about his noisy motorbike.
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The nightclub was crowded and noisy .
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The place was full of noisy teenagers.
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Their lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Noisy Environments: speech recognition is made difficult if interference is created by noisy machinery or extraneous conversations.
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All among the trees, the birds are thick as thieves and noisy as conventioneers.
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I could sense the tension in the court as neighbours sought to give opinions to each other in noisy whispers.
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The night was noisy with its own nocturnal sounds.
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They are tame and noisy and build seaweed nests in the casuarina trees along the shores.
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This idea of happiness was set among wood shavings in a noisy workshop.
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This often occurs in a phobic situation, such as a crowded noisy room, or under circumstances of tension.