nose

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Nose: the sensory organ

[edit] Etymology

Middle English, from Old English nosu, from Proto-Germanic *nusō (compare West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Norwegian nōs 'muzzle, snout'), variant of *nasō (cf. Low German Nees, German Nase, Norwegian nese 'nose'), old dual from Proto-Indo-European *nás 'nose, nostril' (compare Latin nāris 'nostril', nāsus 'nose', Lithuanian nósis, Old Church Slavonic nosŭ, Old Persian naham, Sanskrit násā 'nostrils', Latvian nāsis 'nostrils').

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nose (plural noses)

  1. The organ of the face used to breathe or smell.
    She has a cold in the nose.
  2. A snout, the nose of an animal
  3. The tip of an object (e.g. the nose of a fighter plane).
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
      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.
  4. (horse racing) 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.
    Red Rum only won by a nose.
  5. Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
  6. The skill in recognising bouquet.
    It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
  7. (by extension) Skill at finding information.
    A successful reporter has a nose for news.

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Terms derived from nose (noun)

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organ of the face
snout, nose of an animal
tip of an object
length of a horse’s nose
bouquet
skill in recognising bouquet
skill at finding information
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Cyrillic: нос m.
Roman: nos m.

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nose (third-person singular simple present noses, present participle nosing, simple past and past participle nosed)

  1. (intransitive) To move cautiously.
    The ship nosed through the minefield.
  2. (intransitive) To snoop.
    She was nosing around other people’s business.
  3. (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
    • circa 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 4, sc. 3,
      If you find him not within
      this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
      stairs into the lobby.
  4. (transitive) To push with one's nose.
  5. (transitive) To nuzzle.
  6. (transitive) To win by a narrow margin.

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To move cautiously
To snoop
to detect
to push with the nose
to nuzzle
to win by a narrow margin
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nose (plural noses)

  1. nose

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[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈnoze/

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nose

  1. accusative singular of nosu
  2. genitive singular of nosu
  3. dative singular of nosu
  4. nominative plural of nosu
  5. accusative plural of nosu
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