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Meanings of dissonance in anglès

portuguès
discordância
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desacord

A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters.

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      barulho
      català
      dissonància
      espanyol
      ruido

      The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.

            dissonància
            Sinònims
            Examples for "noise"
            Examples for "noise"
            1
            Did you know health and safety legislation protects you against excessive noise?
            Radio NZ
            2
            Fifteen minutes later, she heard a loud noise reverberating throughout the house.
            Ghosts
            3
            However, people living near the park complained last year about noise levels.
            BBC
            4
            The purring noise is often used to communicate a sense of content.
            The South African
            5
            Results: Both objective and subjective image noise decreased with increasing iteration strength.
            Pubmed
            1
            Martins said, 'The police have implicated Harry in a very serious racket.
            The Third Man
            2
            Still, this was about racket, not reality, and Dominique probably was right.
            Before you know kindness
            3
            To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
            War is a racket
            4
            Later she said of her racket abuse: I just threw my racket.
            The Guardian
            5
            What with all this racket, I can't really hear you too good.
            Black house
            portuguès
            dissonância
            català
            dissonància

            Disagreeable sounds.

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                  (Music) An inharmonious combination of musical tones sounded together.

                        Usage of dissonance in anglès
                        1
                        The cognitive dissonance was enormous, sure, but they were used to that.
                        Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
                        2
                        And yet there is no escaping the wider sense of dissonance here.
                        The Guardian
                        3
                        The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
                        The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
                        4
                        I get it; there is a cognitive dissonance here that is understandable.
                        Ebony
                        5
                        Jack never could figure out how Nikitin dealt with the cognitive dissonance.
                        Stars rain down
                        6
                        Occupy Wall Street brought that jarring dissonance into greater relief for Crabapple.
                        Wired
                        7
                        Unless the Lord is King, all must be confusion, dissonance, and disaster.
                        Our Master: Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord
                        8
                        She still had moments of dissonance when she felt like a Westerner.
                        The favorites: a novel
                        9
                        His head teemed with the new dissonance and wailing of modern music.
                        Prince Lestat
                        10
                        Then, from dissonance and incoherence, the music merged into Gounod's Ave Maria.
                        Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
                        11
                        Though the dissonance between request and reality did not escape him, he complied.
                        Alien: Covenant
                        12
                        As a result, he will experience dissonance - aclashingof two competing messages.
                        No More Mr. Nice Guy!
                        13
                        We should've seen this type of corporate and cognitive dissonance coming.
                        Wired
                        14
                        Inside the building, it is still hard to avoid that feeling of dissonance.
                        The Guardian
                        15
                        The energy in the room converted from expectant to awkward dissonance.
                        Still alice
                        16
                        But the most common reaction is the good old cognitive dissonance.
                        After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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                        Translations for dissonance
                        espanyol
                        ruido
                        Dissonance through the time
                        Dissonance across language varieties
                        United States of America
                        Common
                        United Kingdom
                        Common