According to the Oxford dictionary, the word noise can be considered countable or non-countable when it means "a sound, especially when it is loud, unpleasant or disturbing". But it doesn't provide any more insights as to when it is countable or non-countable. Although there are some example sentences, it is very difficult to figure it out from them.
So I'm not sure whether noise is in its correct form in the sentences below.
The wooden queen-size bed always produces noise when we lie down on it. We had not noticed this issue until we moved in. Despite I am very careful when I turn my body from one side to another, it is still rather noisy and my wife always complains of the annoying noises.
It's quite difficult to distinguish it from its meaning as it is the same. What is the insight?
Best Answer
A bunch of individual noises (a cow mooing, a dog barking, a bird singing) when occurring at the same time, can be considered collectively to be just noise.
I would only talk about noises when you mean to make a distinction between them either in time or by source.
This means at multiple times during the night you made some noise.
This would more likely be interpreted as you making noise in a more continuous way throughout the night.
Here noise means the sum of all noises being heard. (The lawnmower, the traffic, the dog, the television, the neighbors, etc.)
I would rewrite your sentences: