Definitions for nose

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Spelling: [nohz]

IPA: /noʊz/

Nose is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in nose (enos).

Definitions for nose

noun

1. the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
2. this part as the organ of smell.
3. the sense of smell:
4. anything regarded as resembling the nose of a person or animal, as a spout or nozzle.
5. the prow of a ship.
6. the forward end of an aircraft.
7. the forward edge of the head of a golf club.
8. a projecting part of anything:
9. a faculty of perceiving or detecting:
10. the human nose regarded as a symbol of meddling or prying:
11. the length of a nose:
12. the bouquet of an alcoholic drink, especially the distinctive aroma of a wine.

Idioms

1. count noses, to count the number of people in attendance:
2. cut off one's nose to spite one's face, to create a disadvantage to oneself through one's own spiteful action.
3. follow one's nose, to go forward in a straight course. to guide oneself by instinct:
4. hold one's nose, to repress feelings of distaste, repulsion, or offense for something that one is obliged to do:
5. keep one's nose clean, to behave oneself; avoid trouble or scandal:
6. keep one's nose to the grindstone. grindstone (def 3).
7. lead (around) by the nose, to exercise complete control over; dominate totally:
8. look down one's nose at, to regard with disdain or condescension:
9. on the nose, Informal. precisely, correctly, or perfectly. exactly on time: (of a bet) for win only. Australian Informal. decayed or putrid; stinking. Australian Informal. distasteful or unpleasant; of doubtful validity or propriety.
10. pay through the nose, to pay an excessive price:
11. put someone's nose out of joint, to annoy or irritate greatly. to supersede a person in another's regard, devotion, etc. to thwart someone; spoil someone's plans.
12. rub someone's nose in, to persecute or tease someone persistently about; nag someone about:
13. turn up one's nose at, to regard with contempt; scorn:
14. under someone's nose, plainly visible to; in full view of; in bold defiance of: Also, under someone's very nose.

Verb phrases

1. nose out, to defeat, especially by a narrow margin: to learn or discover, especially by snooping or prying:

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive by or as by the nose or the sense of smell:
2. to approach the nose to, as in smelling or examining; sniff.
3. to move or push forward with or as with the nose:
4. to touch or rub with the nose; nuzzle.

verb (used without object)

1. to smell or sniff.
2. to seek as if by smelling or scent:
3. to move or push forward:
4. to meddle or pry (often followed by about, into, etc.):

Origin of nose

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English nosu; akin to Dutch neus, German Nase, Latin nāsus, Sanskrit nāsā

Examples for nose

You ought to know; you had to pay through the nose for shuttin' his mouth.

The teacher sunk into a chair, and put his spectacles on his nose.

Also, your nose is in front of your face and the sun will come up tomorrow.

I will turn my nose up when you offer me the rest of some delicious pastry that you nibbled on.

They should have pointed the nose of the Airbus down and applied more power.

With a nose for bogus facts, Johnson sets out to break the Internet by breaking news.

You're right, though,' says he, and with that he tries to put a twister on Diablo's nose.

I'm sure that when I wrote these lines, fortune had for a moment tweaked me by the nose.

She merely turned her head and rubbed his knee with her nose.

A spandex mask stretched over his face, covering his eyes and nose.