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Image:Neus1.jpg|thumb|Nose: the sensory organ

English

Etymology

From {{term|nosu||lang=ang}}

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nəʊz/
  • IPA: /noʊz/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-nose.ogg


Noun

  1. The organ of the face used to smell things.
  2. A snout, the nose of an animal
  3. The tip of an object (e.g. the nose of a fighter plane).
  4. The length of a horse|horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
  5. : Red Rum only won by a nose.
  6. bouquet|Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
  7. The skill in recognising bouquet.
  8. : It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
  9. In the Context of Skill at finding information.
  10. : A successful reporter has a nose for news.


Translations

  • Ainu: エツ゜ (’etu)
  • Arabic: {{Arab|انف|أنفٌ}}
  • Catalan: nas :ca:nas|^
  • Chinese: 鼻子 (bízi)
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|nos|m}}
  • Danish: næse (human), snude (animals)
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|neus|m}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|nazo|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|nez|m}}
  • Galician: nariz
  • Georgian: {{t-|ka|ცხვირი|xs=Georgian}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Nase|f}}
  • Greek, Ancient: ῥίς (rhis)
  • Greek, Modern: {{t+|el|μύτη|f|s|sc=Grek}} (míti)
  • Hebrew: ,
  • Hungarian:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|naso|m}}
  • Japanese: 鼻 (はな, haná)
  • Korean: 코 (ko)
  • Greek: {{t+|el|μουσούδι|n|s|sc=Grek}} (musúdi)
  • Persian: (puze)
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|focinho|m}}, {{t-|pt|focinhos|p}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|spids|c}}, {{t-|da|tud|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|neus|m}}
  • Finnish:
  • Greek: {{t+|el|αιχμή|f|s|sc=Grek}} (aikhmí), aircraft: {{t+|el|ρύγχος|n|s|sc=Grek}} (rínkhos), car: {{t+|el|μούρη|f|s|sc=Grek}} (moúri)
  • Hebrew:
  • Greek: {{t+|el|μύτη|f|s|sc=Grek}} (míti), {{t|el|όσφρηση|f|s|sc=Grek}} (ósphrisi)
  • Persian: (tavân-e buyâyi), (šâmme)

: Cyrillic: нос#Serbian|нос : Roman: nos#Serbian|nos

Derived terms


See also


Verb

  1. To move cautiously.
  2. : The ship nosed through the minefield.
  3. To snoop.
  4. : She was nosing around other people’s business.
  5. To detect by smell or as if by smell.
  6. To push with one's nose.
  7. To nuzzle
  8. To win by a narrow margin.


Derived terms


Translations

  • Danish:
  • Danish: snuse
  • Finnish:
  • German:

Category:1000 English basic words

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Old English

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈnoze/

Noun form

nose

  1. accusative, genitive or dative singular of nosu
  2. nominative or accusative plural of nosu


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Noun (1) anatomical structure


Colloquialisms or slang


Noun (2) as in "a nose for news"


Verb

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Nose \Nose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nosed (n[=o]zd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Nosing.]
1. To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
[1913 Webster]

2. To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against;
hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
[1913 Webster]

Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature
. . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its
authority. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]

3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal
twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] --Cowley.
[1913 Webster]

4. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

5. To furnish with a nose; as, to nose a stair tread.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

6. To examine with the nose or sense of smell.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

7. To make by advancing the nose or front end; as, the train
nosed its way into the station;
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

8. (Racing Slang) to beat by (the length of) a nose. Hence,
to defeat in a contest by a small margin; also used in the
form nose out.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Nose \Nose\ (n[=o]z), n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase,
OHG. nasa, Icel. n["o]s, Sw. n[aum]sa, Dan. n[aum]se, Lith.
nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[=a]s[=a], n[=a]s.
[root]261. Cf. Nasal, Nasturtium, Naze, Nostril,
Nozzle.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Anat.) The prominent part of the face or anterior
extremity of the head containing the nostrils and
olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril,
and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.
[1913 Webster]

2. The power of smelling; hence, scent.
[1913 Webster]

We are not offended with a dog for a better nose
than his master. --Collier.
[1913 Webster]

3. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a
snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the
nose of a teakettle.
[1913 Webster]

Nose bit (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having
a cutting edge on one side of its boring end.

Nose hammer (Mach.), a frontal hammer.

Nose hole (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace,
before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft
at the beginning of the flattening process.

Nose key (Carp.), a fox wedge.

Nose leaf (Zool.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin
on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in
size and form.

Nose of wax, (fig.), a person who is pliant and easily
influenced. "A nose of wax to be turned every way."
--Massinger

Nose piece, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the
end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is
attached.

To hold one's nose to the grindstone, {To put one's nose to
the grindstone}, or To bring one's nose to the grindstone.
See under Grindstone.

To lead by the nose, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to
follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a
beast. --Shak.

To put one's nose out of joint, to humiliate one's pride,
esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another.
[Slang]

To thrust one's nose into, to meddle officiously in.

To wipe one's nose of, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]

on the nose,
(a) exactly, accurately.
(b) (racing) to win, as opposed to to place or {to
show}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Nose \Nose\, v. i.
To push or move with the nose or front forward.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

A train of cable cars came nosing along. --Hamlin
Garland.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Nose \Nose\ (n[=o]z), v. i.
1. To smell; to sniff; to scent. --Audubon.
[1913 Webster]

2. To pry officiously into what does not concern one; to
nose around.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet nose
n 1: the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract;
the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals;
"he has a cold in the nose" [syn: olfactory organ]
2: a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of
an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on
reentry"
3: the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he
ducked under the nose of the gun"
4: a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose"
5: the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a
good nose"
6: a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals"
7: a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged [syn: nozzle]
v 1: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always
nosing around the office" [syn: pry, poke]
2: advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car
into the left lane"
3: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the
drugs" [syn: scent, wind]
4: push or move with the nose
5: rub noses [syn: nuzzle]
6: defeat by a narrow margin
Moby Dictionary
Adamite , Paul Pry , Paul-Pry , antlia , aptness , beak , beezer , being ,
bent , bib nozzle , bill , body , bow , bowsprit , breathe , breathe in ,
bugle , bump , busybody , butt-in , caress , cat , chap , character , conk ,
creature , customer , duck , earthling , faculty , feel up , fellow ,
figurehead , flair , follow , follow a clue , follow up , fondle ,
fool with , forecastle , foredeck , forepeak , genius , groundling , guy ,
hand , head , homo , human , human being , hunt down , individual ,
inhale , intermeddle , jib boom , joker , kibitz , kibitzer , knack ,
knead , life , living soul , man , massage , meddle , meddle with ,
meddler , mess with , monkey with , mortal , mouse , muffle , muzzle ,
nares , neb , nib , nose out , nostrils , nozzle , nuzzle , olfactories ,
olfactory area , olfactory cell , olfactory nerves , olfactory organ ,
olfactory pit , one , party , pecker , peek , peep , person , personage ,
personality , pet , poke , pragmatist , pressure nozzle , prier ,
proboscis , prore , prow , pry , quidnunc , rhinarium , rose , rosehead ,
rostrum , rub , rub against , rub noses , rubberneck , run down ,
run to earth , scent , schnozzle , shadow , shower head , single , smell ,
smell of , smell out , smeller , sniff , sniff out , snitch , snook ,
snoop , snoot , snout , snuff , snuffle , somebody , someone , soul ,
spray nozzle , sprinkler head , spy , stalk , stem , stroke , tail ,
talent , tamper with , tellurian , terran , trace , trace down , track ,
track down , trail , trunk , whiff , worldling


NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout: "No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!" So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." Arpad Singiny
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