Nose (disambiguation)

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The nose is a protuberance in vertebrates which admits and expels air for respiration and contains olfactory receptors for sensing odors.

Nose may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• "The Nose" (Akutagawa short story)|, a 1916 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• "The Nose" (Gogol short story), a 1836 short story by Nikolai Gogol
  • The Nose (opera), a 1930 opera by Dmitri Shostakovich based on the Gogol short story
• The Nose (magazine), an 1989–1995 satirical California-based magazine
• The Nose (film), a 1977 Soviet TV film

Places

• The Nose (El Capitan), a climbing route on El Capitan
• Nose, Osaka, a town in Japan
• Noše, a settlement in Slovenia
• The Noses, Big Nose and Little Nose, two steep bluffs between which the Mohawk River flows in the town of Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York

Other uses

• Nose cone, the forward part of an aircraft or spacecraft
• Nose Railway, a subsidiary of Hankyu Railway, a Japanese private railway
• Nose Station, a train station in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
• Google Nose, an April Fool's Day joke
• nose, a Python unit test framework

People with the name

• Alberto Nosè (born 1979), Italian pianist
• Seiki Nose (born 1952), Japanese judoka
• Nose Yoritsugu (1562–1626), Japanese samurai

See also

• Big Nose George (died 1881), American Old West cattle rustler
• Big Nose Kate (1850–1940), common-law wife of Old West figure Doc Holliday
• Jack McCall (1852 or 1853–1877), aka "Crooked Nose Jack" or "Broken Nose Jack", murderer of Old West legend "Wild Bill" Hickok
• List of noses, locations which are called "nose"
• Noses Creek, Cobb County, Georgia