noise vs row

noise

noun
  • Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations. 

  • Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant. 

  • Any sound. 

  • Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output. 

  • Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion. 

  • A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock. 

  • The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population. 

  • Rumour or complaint. 

  • Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity. 

verb
  • To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip. 

  • To make a noise; to sound. 

row

noun
  • A continual loud noise. 

  • A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom. 

  • A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc. 

  • An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back. 

  • A noisy argument. 

  • An act or instance of rowing. 

verb
  • To transport in a boat propelled with oars. 

  • To be moved by oars. 

  • To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. 

  • To argue noisily. 

How often have the words noise and row occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )