noise-cancel en · VERB
Meanings
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To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.
2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| noise-cancelled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| noise-cancelled | Tense=Past | UK | lexicographic |
| noise-cancels | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| noise-cancelling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| noise-canceling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| noise-canceled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| noise-canceled | Tense=Past | US | lexicographic |