nose
[noʊ̯z]
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
noun
The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
noun
A perfumer.
noun
The sense of smell.
noun
Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
Example Sentences
- "She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes."
- "The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…]."
- "the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane"
- "We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff."
- "Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water."
- "Red Rum only won by a nose."
Etymology
From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”). See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [noʊ̯z]
- British English: [nəʊ̯z]
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.