In general, noise generation is substantially enhanced, when such a swirling flow is employed for flames.
But the President's chatter makes even those defining moments start to fade into the general noise.
There was a general noise at the edges you'd begun to detect, akin to indecipherable ballpoint desktop gougings.
From inside Uber, it can be hard to decode all the complaints, the anxieties, the general noise and disbelief about its plans, because disruption means exactly that.
As 7 May gets closer and the media coverage and general noise increases you could be forgiven for wondering whether the election has anything to do with voters at all.
Now we've launched in the US and are publishing to US readers, we wanted to make sure our coverage was distinctive and added something to the general noise and swirl of an election campaign.
Cheap to produce compared with television commercials and easy to spread in small countries like Switzerland, where referendums are catnip to populists, they have the capacity to rise above the general noise.
Hundreds of cars carrying team officials, doctors, mechanics, reporters and V.I.P.'s constantly jostle for position in front of and behind the riders while dozens of motorbikes flit in between to add to the general noise and confusion.
This makes it easier for a listener to sort out the signal the person being listened to from the general noise of the party.In a conference call, by contrast, everybody is heard at about the same volume.
A recent Swedish study found that even people who live in loud neighborhoods report a 50 percent drop in their general noise annoyance levels if residential buildings have a quiet side.
Thompson thinks Twitter should split itself up, rather as Facebook did into Messenger, Instagram, and others, and capture users in different areas – messaging, video-sharing, photo-sharing – so that advertisers can get more targeting than they could in the general noise of hundreds of millions of tweets per day.
