Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to nose
Participle: nosed
Gerund: nosing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | nose |
| you | nose |
| he;she;it | noses |
| we | nose |
| you | nose |
| they | nose |
Perfect
| I | have nosed |
| you | have nosed |
| he;she;it | has nosed |
| we | have nosed |
| you | have nosed |
| they | have nosed |
Past
| I | nosed |
| you | nosed |
| he;she;it | nosed |
| we | nosed |
| you | nosed |
| they | nosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had nosed |
| you | had nosed |
| he;she;it | had nosed |
| we | had nosed |
| you | had nosed |
| they | had nosed |
Future
| I | will nose |
| you | will nose |
| he;she;it | will nose |
| we | will nose |
| you | will nose |
| they | will nose |
Future Perfect
| I | will have nosed |
| you | will have nosed |
| he;she;it | will have nosed |
| we | will have nosed |
| you | will have nosed |
| they | will have nosed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | nose |
| you | nose |
| he;she;it | nose |
| we | nose |
| you | nose |
| they | nose |
Perfect
| I | have nosed |
| you | have nosed |
| he;she;it | have nosed |
| we | have nosed |
| you | have nosed |
| they | have nosed |
Imperfect
| I | nosed |
| you | nosed |
| he;she;it | nosed |
| we | nosed |
| you | nosed |
| they | nosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had nosed |
| you | had nosed |
| he;she;it | had nosed |
| we | had nosed |
| you | had nosed |
| they | had nosed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would nose |
| you | would nose |
| he;she;it | would nose |
| we | would nose |
| you | would nose |
| they | would nose |
Perfect
| I | would have nosed |
| you | would have nosed |
| he;she;it | would have nosed |
| we | would have nosed |
| you | would have nosed |
| they | would have nosed |
Imperative
| you | nose |
| we | Let's nose |
| you | nose |
Verbs conjugated like 'nose'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'nose'
bose,
cose,
dose,
hose,
lose,
noie,
noise,
noose,
nope,
nosel,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
2. See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Noose', Swedish '
nos', Swedish '
näsa', Danish '
næse'.
Sample Sentences
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The ship nosed through the minefield.
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Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did. [2025 November 12, Tony Streeter, “All around the world”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 42:]
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She was nosing around other people’s business.
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[…] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 273:]
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Dogs hurried out to nose Edmund[.] [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18:]
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Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you. [2002 October 20, Bob Morris, “Connoisseurship Runneth Over”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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[L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […] [1868, Alfred Tennyson, “Lucretius”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], published 1870, →OCLC, page 211:]
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to nose a prayer
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It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter. [c. 1635, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:]
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to nose a stair tread
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The plane is nosing up!
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We have to get it nosing down.