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noise-cancel

noise-cancel verb: to reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.

Verb

noise-cancel (third-person singular simple present noise-cancels, present participle (US) noise-canceling or (UK) noise-cancelling, simple past and past participle (US) noise-canceled or (UK) noise-cancelled)

  1. 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 of noise-cancel

third-person singular presentnoise-cancels
present participle USnoise-canceling
present participle UKnoise-cancelling
past participle USnoise-canceled
past USnoise-canceled
past participle UKnoise-cancelled
past UKnoise-cancelled

Questions about noise-cancel

What does noise-cancel mean?
Noise-cancel means to reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
What part of speech is noise-cancel?
Noise-cancel is a verb.
What is the past tense of noise-cancel?
The past tense of noise-cancel is noise-canceled.

Words near noise-cancel in the dictionary

  1. noise trader
  2. noise traders
  3. noise up
  4. noise word
  5. noise words
  6. noise-cancel
  7. noise-canceled
  8. noise-canceling
  9. noise-cancelled
  10. noise-cancelling
  11. noise-cancels

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