noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ deafening , loud
▪ awful , horrible , terrible
▪ faint , low , slight , small
▪
The slightest ~ will wake him.
▪ sudden
▪ funny , strange
▪ background
▪
There was constant background ~ from the road.
▪ constant , incessant
▪ banging , buzzing , clicking , hissing , etc.
▪ muffled
▪ aircraft , engine , traffic
▪ ambient , white
▪ rude ( esp. BrE )
▪
One of the children made a rude ~.
VERB + NOISE
▪ create , emit , generate , let out , make , produce
▪
the ~ created by aircraft
▪
She was making a lot of ~.
▪ hear , listen to
▪
We could hear funny little sucking ~s.
▪ block out , drown out , reduce
▪
Wood is used to deaden the ~.
▪ complain about
NOISE + VERB
▪ come from sth
▪
There were strange ~s coming from the kitchen.
▪ become louder , get louder , grow louder , increase
▪ die away , die down , fade , fade away
▪
The deafening ~ of the machine died away to a rumble.
NOISE + NOUN
▪ level
▪ pollution
▪ reduction
PREPOSITION
▪ above the ~ , over the ~
▪
We had to shout over the ~ of the traffic.
▪ ~ from
▪
the ~ from the engine room