nose
verb/nəʊz/
/nəʊz/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they nose | /nəʊz/ /nəʊz/ |
| he / she / it noses | /ˈnəʊzɪz/ /ˈnəʊzɪz/ |
| past simple nosed | /nəʊzd/ /nəʊzd/ |
| past participle nosed | /nəʊzd/ /nəʊzd/ |
| -ing form nosing | /ˈnəʊzɪŋ/ /ˈnəʊzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to move forward slowly and carefully
- + adv./prep. The plane nosed down through the thick clouds.
- He nosed the boat slowly across the water.
- nose your way + adv./prep. The taxi nosed its way back into the traffic.
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- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (of an animal) to search for something or push something with its nose
- Dogs nosed around in piles of refuse.
Word OriginOld English nosu, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch neus, and more remotely to German Nase, Latin nasus, and Sanskrit nāsā.
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