Meaning of nose in English

nose

noun [ C ]

/nəʊz/ us

/noʊz/

nose noun [C] (BODY PART)

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the part of the face that sticks out above the mouth, through which you breathe and smell:

a large/long/pointed nose

runny nose I had a sore throat and a runny nose (= liquid coming out of the nose).

blow your nose Come on now, stop crying and blow your nose .

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nasal

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food & drink specialized

the particular smell of a wine:

a wine praised for its smoky nose

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She took out her handkerchief and blew her nose loudly.
Menthol can help to clear your nose when you have a cold.
Her hands were covered in dust and she had a black smudge on her nose.
She wondered if she should take out her nose stud for the job interview.
She had plastic surgery on her nose to straighten it.

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nose noun [C] (VEHICLE)

the front of a vehicle, especially an aircraft:

The symbol was painted on each side of the plane's nose.

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Idioms

be (right) under your nose
by a nose
get up someone's nose
have your nose in a book
have a (good) nose for something
keep your nose clean
keep your nose out of something
keep/put your nose to the grindstone
nose in the air
nose to tail

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not see/look, etc. beyond/past the end of your nose
on the nose
stick your nose into something
put someone's nose out of joint
(from) under your nose

nose

verb

/nəʊz/ us

/noʊz/

nose verb (SEARCH)

[ I usually + adv/prep ] informal

to look around or search in order to discover something, especially something that other people do not want you to find:

nose around There were some reporters nosing around.

nose about I don't like people nosing about, looking at my things.

nose into The police came in and started nosing into drawers and looking through papers.

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Searching

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nose verb (VEHICLE)

[ I or T, + adv/prep ]

to (make a vehicle) move forwards slowly and carefully:

nose out The car nosed out of the side street, its driver peering anxiously around.

nose something into something He carefully nosed his lorry into the small space.

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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles

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Slow and moving slowly

Phrasal verb

nose something out

(Definition of nose from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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nose

noun [ C ]

/noʊz/

nose noun [C] (BODY PART)

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the part of the face above the mouth through which a person or animal breathes and smells:

He fractured a wrist and broke his nose in a fall.

I have a runny nose (= liquid coming out of the nose).

She blew her nose (= breathed out through the nose to clear it).

nose noun [C] (FRONT)

the front of a vehicle, esp. an aircraft or spacecraft

Idioms

on the nose

stick your nose into something

nose

verb

/noʊz/

nose verb (SEARCH)

[ I always + adv/prep ] infml

to look around or search in order to discover something, esp. something that other people do not want you to find:

I don’t want you nosing around in my closet.

nose verb (MOVE FORWARD)

[ always + adv/prep ]

to move forward slowly and carefully:

[ I ] The car nosed out into traffic.

(Definition of nose from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of nose

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Lengthening the spike has the effect of moving the point of re-attachment of the separated layer up the nose of the body towards the shoulder.

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Consider, for example, the fact that we are all obliged to refrain from picking our respective noses in public places.

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Consider that there is no trivial link between the sight of watching someone else scratch their nose, and the experience of scratching your own nose.

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All disturbance components have their peaks in the region around the leading edge and decay quickly with increasing distance from the nose.

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Generally, the masks are not pierced at the eyes, nose, or mouth.

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He kept walking, absentmindedly, until he hit a wall and broke his nose.

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All 31 cases provided acute sera, 19 provided convalescent sera and 14 had viral throat/nose swabs taken.

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His counterexample to my definition is: touching your nose for 30 seconds (short activity) versus listening to a symphony (long activity).

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The applicant relied on medical reports from a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon and a consultant psychiatrist.

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Similarly, nose corrections have a wide range of severity and treatment options.

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The animal's head was stabilized with a metal clamp over the nose, and a mouth bar with a hole for the upper front teeth.

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With chimpanzees exploiting figs that are seasonally clustered in widely scattered trees, the more eyes (noses, ears), the greater the chance of locating food.

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While nerve endings in the nose play a central role, the taste certainly is not there.

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Steady conical separation from a spike 11 on a hemispherically nosed body.

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He was grey, with beautiful almond-shaped eyes and small aquiline nose always red due to a cold.

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Collocations with nose

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aquiline nose

He was grey, with beautiful almond-shaped eyes and small aquiline nose always red due to a cold.

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blunt nose

Consider the surface pressure distributions around the blunt nose shown in figure 6 which were obtained for different computational grids confined to the nose region.

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broken nose

Cook got £375 for a broken nose, body injuries and subsequent mental anxiety.

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Translations of nose

in Chinese (Traditional)

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Meaning of nose in English

nose noun [C] (BODY PART)

nose noun [C] (VEHICLE)

Idioms

nose verb (SEARCH)

nose verb (VEHICLE)

Phrasal verb

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nose noun [C] (BODY PART)

nose noun [C] (FRONT)

Idioms

nose verb (SEARCH)

nose verb (MOVE FORWARD)

Examples of nose

Collocations with nose

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