Nose vs Jukebox - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between nose and jukebox

is that nose is a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell while jukebox is jukebox.

As a verb nose

is to move cautiously.

nose

English

(wikipedia nose)

Noun

(en noun)

A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

A snout, the nose of an animal.

The tip of an object.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.

(horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.

The power of smelling.

* Collier

We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.

Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.

The skill in recognising bouquet.

(by extension) Skill at finding information.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* aquiline nose * bignose * bloody nose * blow one's nose * bottlenose * button nose * cut off one's nose to spite one's face * e-nose * * get up someone's nose * hawknose * in front of one's nose * I've got your nose * keep one's nose clean * look down one's nose * nasal * no skin off one's nose * nose candy * nose cap * nose cone * nose count * nose flute * nose job * nose out of joint * nose pad * nose-pick * nose poke * nose ring * nose test * nose to tail * nose to the grindstone * nosebag * noseband * nosebleed * nosed * nosedive * noseful * noseguard * noseless * noselike * nosepiece * noseplug * nosering * noseshot * noseweight * nosewheel * on the nose * parson's nose * pay through the nose * pick one's nose * plain as the nose on one's face * pope's nose * powder one's nose * pug nose * Red Nose Day * Roman nose * runny nose * snub-nose * socked on the nose * stick one's nose into * the nose knows * thumb one's nose * turn up one's nose * under one's nose * wax-nose * white nose syndrome

Verb

(nos)

To move cautiously.

The ship nosed through the minefield.

To snoop.

She was nosing around other people’s business.

To detect by smell or as if by smell.

* , Hamlet , act 4, sc. 3,

If you find him not within

this month, you shall nose him as you go up the

stairs into the lobby.

To push with one's nose.

* Tennyson

lambs nosing the mother's udder

To nuzzle.

To win by a narrow margin.

To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.

to nose a prayer

(Cowley)

Derived terms

* brown-nose * nosey * nose out

Anagrams

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jukebox

English

(wikipedia jukebox)

Noun

(es)

A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music; it has push-buttons to make selections.

* 1939 , Life, Dec 18, 1939, [p. http://books.google.com/books?id=50EEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27 27]:

*:Glenn Miller plays more sweet numbers than hot. His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes ”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs. Miller is easily the most outstanding juke-box artist of 1939.

(computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.

(computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.

* 2011 , Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies

Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.

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