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nose (n

1. The part of the human face or the forward part of the head of other vertebrates that contains the nostrils and organs of smell and forms the beginning of the respiratory tract.

2. The sense of smell: a dog with a good nose.

3. The ability to detect, sense, or discover as if by smell: has a nose for gossip.

4. The characteristic smell of a wine or liqueur; bouquet.

5. Informal The nose considered as a symbol of prying: Keep your nose out of my business.

6. Something, such as the forward end of an aircraft, rocket, or submarine, that resembles a nose in shape or position.

7. A very short distance or narrow margin: won the race by a nose.

v. nosed, nos·ing, nos·es

v.tr.

1. To find out by or as if by smell: nosed out the thieves' hiding place.

2. To touch with the nose; nuzzle.

3. To move, push, or make with or as if with the nose.

4. To advance the forward part of cautiously: nosed the car into the flow of traffic.

v.intr.

1. To smell or sniff.

2. Informal To search or inquire meddlesomely; snoop or pry: nosing around looking for opportunities.

3. To advance with caution: The ship nosed into its berth.

Phrasal Verb:

nose out

To defeat by a narrow margin.

Idioms:

down (one's) nose Informal

With disapproval, contempt, or arrogance: Year-round residents here look down their noses at the summer people.

on the nose

Exactly; precisely: predicted the final score on the nose.

under (someone's) nose

In plain view: The keys are right under your nose.

[Middle English, from Old English nosu; see nas- in Indo-European roots.]

nose out

vb (tr, adverb)

1. to discover by smelling

2. to discover by cunning or persistence the reporter managed to nose out a few facts

3. Informal to beat by a narrow margin he was nosed out of first place by the champion

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Verb

nose out - recognize or detect by or as if by smelling; "He can smell out trouble"

scent out, smell out, sniff out

Translations

? nose out

vt sep (Brit inf) → aufspüren; secret, scandal → ausspionieren (inf), → ausschnüffeln (inf)

vi (car) → sich vorschieben

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A Fisher once took his bagpipes to the bank of a river, and played upon them with the hope of making the fish rise; but never a one put his nose out of the water.

Fables by Aesop View in context

They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,--strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.

The Call of the Wild by London, Jack View in context