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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

counternoise en · NOUN

Etymology

From counter- + noise.

Meanings

  1. A noise in response or opposition to another noise.
    • […] the production of counternoises (hissing, booing), over which the listeners at least had control, to drown out the uncontrollable and unintelligible music. 1950, Reprints of the Publication of the Department of Medicine of the University of Chicago, page 72:

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