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beak, bill, bow, bowsprit, front, en.synonym.one, head, jib, muzzle, nozzle, olfactory organ, pipe, proboscis, projection, prow, rostrum, snout, spout, stem, tube, chin, examine, horn in, inspect, intrude, en.synonym.one, kiss, lick, nuzzle, poke, pry, root, scent, search, wind.
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- beak
- snout
- adenoids
- bill
- horn
- muzzle
- nares
- nostrils
- proboscis
- schnoz
- sneezer
- sniffer
- snoot
- snuffer
- whiffer
- olfactory nerves
- smeller
- pry
- sniff
- snoop
- busybody
- examine
- inspect
- meddle
- mouse
- scent
- smell
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO NOSE
- ability
- aim
- aptitude
- bag
- disposition
- druthers
- facility
- faculty
- flair
- forte
- genius
- gift
- inclination
- knack
- leaning
- mind-set
- nose
- penchant
- predilection
- predisposition
- preference
- proclivity
- propensity
- set
- tack
- tendency
- thing for
- tilt
- turn
- weakness for
- beak
- bowsprit
- fore
- forepart
- head
- nose
- prow
- stem
- adroitness
- aptitude
- aptness
- bent
- capability
- capacity
- cleverness
- dexterity
- facility
- flair
- forte
- genius
- gift
- instinct
- intelligence
- knack
- knowing way around
- leaning
- nose
- peculiarity
- penchant
- pistol
- power
- predilection
- proclivity
- propensity
- property
- quality
- readiness
- reason
- right stuff
- sense
- strength
- talent
- turn
- what it takes
- wits
- aptitude
- faculty
- feeling
- funny feeling
- gift
- gut reaction
- hunch
- impulse
- inclination
- intuition
- knack
- know-how
- nose
- predisposition
- proclivity
- savvy
- sense
- sentiment
- sixth sense
- talent
- tendency
- urge
- aptitudes
- faculties
- feelings
- funny feelings
- gifts
- gut reactions
- hunches
- impulses
- inclinations
- intuitions
- knacks
- know-hows
- noses
- predispositions
- proclivities
- savvy
- senses
- sentiments
- sixth senses
- talents
- tendencies
- urges
- ESP
- clairvoyance
- discernment
- divination
- feeling
- foreknowledge
- gut reaction
- hunch
- innate knowledge
- inspiration
- instinct
- intuitiveness
- nose
- penetration
- perception
- perceptivity
- premonition
- presentiment
- second sight
- sixth sense
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nose
( noses plural & 3rd person present) ( nosing present participle) ( nosed past tense & past participle )
1 n-count Your nose is the part of your face which sticks out above your mouth. You use it for smelling and breathing.
oft poss N
She wiped her nose with a tissue…, She’s got funny eyes and a big nose.
2 n-count The nose of a vehicle such as a car or aeroplane is the front part of it.
oft poss N
Sue parked off the main street, with the van’s nose pointing away from the street.
3 n-count You can refer to your sense of smell as your nose.
The river that runs through Middlesbrough became ugly on the eye and hard on the nose.
4 verb If a vehicle noses in a certain direction or if you nose it there, you move it slowly and carefully in that direction.
He could not see the driver as the car nosed forward… V adv/prep
Ben drove past them, nosing his car into the garage. V n prep/adv
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hard-nosed
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toffee-nosed
6 If you keep your nose clean, you behave well and stay out of trouble.
INFORMAL
♦
keep one’s nose clean phrase V and N inflect
If you kept your nose clean, you had a job for life.
7 If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
♦
follow one’s nose phrase V and N inflect
Just follow your nose and in about five minutes you’re at the old railway.
8 If you follow your nose, you do something in a particular way because you feel it should be done like that, rather than because you are following any plan or rules.
♦
follow one’s nose phrase V and N inflect
You won’t have to think, just follow your nose.
9 If you say that someone has a nose for something, you mean that they have a natural ability to find it or recognize it.
♦
have a nose for sth phrase V inflects, PHR n
He had a nose for trouble and a brilliant tactical mind…
10 If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
(BRIT)
INFORMAL
♦
get up sb’s nose phrase V and N inflect
He’s just getting up my nose so much at the moment.
11 If you say that someone looks down their nose at something or someone, you mean that they believe they are superior to that person or thing and treat them with disrespect.
♦
look down one’s nose at sb phrase V and N inflect, usu PHR at n (disapproval)
They rather looked down their noses at anyone who couldn’t speak French.
12 If you say that you paid through the nose for something, you are emphasizing that you had to pay what you consider too high a price for it.
INFORMAL
♦
pay through the nose phrase V inflects, oft PHR for n (emphasis)
We don’t like paying through the nose for our wine when eating out.
13 If someone pokes their nose into something or sticks their nose into something, they try to interfere with it even though it does not concern them.
INFORMAL
♦
poke one’s nose into sth/stick one’s nose into sth phrase V and N inflect, PHR n (disapproval)
(=meddle)
We don’t like strangers who poke their noses into our affairs…, Why did you have to stick your nose in?
14 To rub someone’s nose in something that they do not want to think about, such as a failing or a mistake they have made, means to remind them repeatedly about it.
INFORMAL
♦
rub sb’s nose in sth phrase V and N inflect, PHR n
His enemies will attempt to rub his nose in past policy statements.
15 If you say that someone is cutting off their nose to spite their face, you mean they do something that they think will hurt someone, without realizing or caring that it will hurt themselves as well.
♦
cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face phrase V inflects (disapproval)
There is evidence that the industry’s greed means that it is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
16 If vehicles are nose to tail, the front of one vehicle is close behind the back of another.
(mainly BRIT)
♦
nose to tail phrase v-link PHR, PHR after v
…a line of about twenty fast-moving trucks driving nose to tail.
in AM, use bumper-to-bumper
17 If you thumb your nose at someone, you behave in a way that shows that you do not care what they think.
♦
thumb one’s nose at sb phrase V and N inflect, usu PHR at n
He has always thumbed his nose at the media.
18 If you turn up your noseat something, you reject it because you think that it is not good enough for you.
♦
turn up one’s nose at sth phrase V and N inflect, usu PHR at n
I’m not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
19 If you do something under someone’s nose, you do it right in front of them, without trying to hide it from them.
♦
under sb’s nose phrase N inflects
Okay so have an affair, but not right under my nose.
20
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to put someone’s nose out of joint
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joint
nose job ( nose jobs plural ) A nose job is a surgical operation that some people have to improve the shape of their nose.
INFORMAL n-count
I’ve never had plastic surgery, though people always think I’ve had a nose job.
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smelling organ of animate being
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nose, olfactory organnoun
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»
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olfactory organ, nozzle -
nosenoun
a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft)
«the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry»
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olfactory organ, nozzle -
nosenoun
the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon
«he ducked under the nose of the gun»
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olfactory organ, nozzle -
nosenoun
a small distance
«my horse lost the race by a nose»
Synonyms:
olfactory organ, nozzle -
nosenoun
a symbol of inquisitiveness
«keep your nose out of it»
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olfactory organ, nozzle -
nosenoun
the sense of smell (especially in animals)
«the hound has a good nose»
Synonyms:
olfactory organ, nozzle -
nosenoun
a natural skill
«he has a nose for good deals»
Synonyms:
olfactory organ, nozzle -
nozzle, noseverb
a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
Synonyms:
nozzle, snout, olfactory organ, snoot, schnozzle, schnoz, honker, hooter, beak -
intrude, horn in, pry, nose, pokeverb
search or inquire in a meddlesome way
«This guy is always nosing around the office»
Synonyms:
stab, nuzzle, dig, horn in, intrude, prize, jab, pry, wind, lever, obtrude, trespass, irrupt, thump, scent, jimmy, prise, prod, pound, poke -
noseverb
advance the forward part of with caution
«She nosed the car into the left lane»
Synonyms:
horn in, nuzzle, poke, wind, pry, scent, intrude -
scent, nose, windverb
catch the scent of; get wind of
«The dog nosed out the drugs»
Synonyms:
wrap, lift, horn in, wind up, meander, hoist, odorize, pry, wind, twist, nuzzle, odourise, wreathe, roll, wander, intrude, curve, perfume, scent, thread, weave, twine, poke -
noseverb
push or move with the nose
Synonyms:
horn in, nuzzle, poke, wind, pry, scent, intrude -
nuzzle, noseverb
rub noses
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poke, intrude, scent, pry, wind, cuddle, nest, snuggle, nuzzle, nestle, horn in, draw close -
noseverb
defeat by a narrow margin
Synonyms:
horn in, nuzzle, poke, wind, pry, scent, intrude
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- Advance
- Animal
- Defeat
- Front
- Push
- Skill
- Small Indefinite Quantity
- Smell
- Symbol
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nosenoun
Synonyms:
snout, nozzle, spout, proboscis, muzzleAssociated words:
nasal, rhinal, rhinology, rhinoplasty, coryza, aquiline, simous, retroussé, pug, snuff, snuffle, vomer, nostril, nasalize, nasalization, nasiform, polypus, vibrissa, grogblossom, rosedrop, snivel, rhinitis, rhinolith, septum, nasute
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List of paraphrases for «nose»:
nasal, flair, bei, snout, pif, tarin, face, truffle, toe, bip, nosedive, ifd
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Mayor Ginger Nelson:
We’ve used the tagline,’ I’ll wear one for you, if you’ll wear one for me’ because truly it is a new form of citizenship that you would consider others and the needs of others above your own comfort, whether that’s vanity of not wearing a mask or even just the discomfort of having your nose and mouth covered, i think the people in Amarillo know that stopping the spread of this disease most depends on the choices we make as individuals.
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Jimmy Dickens:
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose; May an elephant caress you with its toes; May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose; May the bird of paradise fly up your nose.
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Paola Regeni:
I only recognized him because of the tip of his nose. As for everything else, it was no longer him.
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Richard Peirce:
If you’re a diver with an underwater camera, use it, if you’re a snorkeler, rip off your snorkel and use it to poke the shark, i’ve had a lot of sharks come at me, and it’s (been) enough to use a shark billy — a small metal rod between two and three feet long — and I’ve just given them a little nudge on their nose.
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Leone Levi:
Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
Translations for nose
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- аҧынҵаAbkhaz
- snoet, neusAfrikaans
- አፍንጫAmharic
- أنف, خشمArabic
- мегӏерAvaric
- nasaAymara
- burunAzerbaijani
- танау, моронBashkir
- носBelarusian
- носBulgarian
- নাকBengali
- ཤངས, སྣ་གུགTibetan Standard
- friBreton
- nasCatalan, Valencian
- мараChechen
- nosCzech
- носъOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- сăмсаChuvash
- trwynWelsh
- snude, tud, spids, næse, snuse, listeDanish
- Rüssel, Nase, Schnauze, Nasenlänge, schnüffelnGerman
- ނޭފަތްDivehi
- μύτη, ρύγχος, μουσούδι, αιχμή, όσφρηση, μούρηGreek
- nazoEsperanto
- morro, nariz, olfato, hocicoSpanish
- ninaEstonian
- sudurBasque
- شامه, نوک, پوزه, بینی, نس, دماغ, توان بویاییPersian
- kärsä, kuono, hajuaisti, turvanmitta, nenä, vainu, tuoksu, nokka, turpa, [[voittaa]] [[hiuksenhienosti]], haistaa, [[liikkua]] [[varovaisesti]], nuuskia, tunnustella, nuuhkiaFinnish
- nøsFaroese
- nez, odorat, gueule, trompe, museauFrench
- noasWestern Frisian
- srónIrish
- srònScottish Gaelic
- narizGalician
- નાકGujarati
- hanciHausa
- אף, חרטום, חוטםHebrew
- नाक, नासिकाHindi
- orrhossz, orrHungarian
- քիթArmenian
- hidungIndonesian
- nazoIdo
- nefIcelandic
- fiuto, naso, musoItalian
- 鼻Japanese
- ცხვირიGeorgian
- мұрынKazakh
- ច្រមុះKhmer
- ಮೂಗುKannada
- 코Korean
- kǝnza
- لووت, poz, difinKurdish
- мурунKyrgyz
- nāsusLatin
- Nues, Rüssel, SchnëssLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ດັງLao
- nosisLithuanian
- snuķis, šņukurs, degunsLatvian
- ihuMāori
- нос, рилка, муцка, душкаMacedonian
- മൂക്ക്Malayalam
- хамарMongolian
- नासिका, नाकMarathi
- hidungMalay
- mnieħerMaltese
- နှာခေါင်းBurmese
- mulelengde, tryne, snute, mule, nese, nesepartiNorwegian
- neuslengte, neusDutch
- naseparti, mulelengd, nase, tryne, snute, muleNorwegian Nynorsk
- áchį́į́hNavajo, Navaho
- nasOccitan
- ନାକOriya
- ਨੱਕPanjabi, Punjabi
- nosPolish
- پزهPashto, Pushto
- tromba, focinho, olfato, nariz, focinhosPortuguese
- sinq’aQuechua
- nasRomansh
- aromă, cioc, bot, nas, buchet, lungime de nas, vârf, a-și băga nasul, mirosiRomanian
- нос, нюх, чутьё, пятачок, носовая часть, морда, рыло, вынюхивать, красться, слышать запах, толкать носом, чуять, [[сова́ть]] [[нос]] [[в]] [[чужой, двигатьсяRussian
- नासिकाSanskrit
- nasuSardinian
- نڪSindhi
- nos, носSerbo-Croatian
- නාසයSinhala, Sinhalese
- nosSlovak
- nosSlovene
- hundëAlbanian
- nkoSouthern Sotho
- näsa, väderkorn, noslängd, nos, spets, lägga näsan i blöt, nosa, snoka, smyga, vädraSwedish
- puaSwahili
- மூக்குTamil
- ముక్కుTelugu
- бинӣTajik
- จมูกThai
- burunTurkmen
- ilongTagalog
- burunTurkish
- борынTatar
- بۇرۇنUyghur, Uighur
- нісUkrainian
- ناکUrdu
- burunUzbek
- mũiVietnamese
- nud, snudVolapük
- nezWalloon
- נאָזYiddish
- 鼻子Chinese
- impumulo, ikhalaZulu
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