noised

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of noise.

   Word of the scandal was noised abroad within days of the trial.

   Townsfolk noised the strange sighting through every household on the lane.

   Note

   Behind this form stand two verbs. One is intransitive and means to make a sound. The other is transitive and means to spread news or rumor. The second gives the familiar passive phrase was noised abroad, where something becomes widely known through talk. Its object is the news itself, not the people who hear it. The form is regular, so the perfect takes have: it had been noised about.

2. 2
   adjective

   Containing noise or random perturbations that distort the underlying data values.

   Like a radio station fading in and out of static.

   The noised sensor readings required filtering before any meaningful analysis.

   Engineers compared clean signals against artificially noised versions to test the algorithm.

   Similarnoisy, corrupted, perturbed

   Oppositeclean

   Note

   A participle adjective at home in technical writing on signals and optimization. It often travels with its opposite, unnoised: a noised range against an unnoised beam, noised phases alternating with unnoised descents. Unlike noisy, it takes no degrees, so data are noised or not, never more noised. Its participle shape also suggests noise that has been introduced or modeled, not merely present.

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