When you hear, you perceive a noise made by someone or something like a person’s voice, the song of a bird, or the torturous sound of a ticking clock on a sleepless night.
To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear;
Verb
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
Verb
receive a communication from someone; "We heard nothing from our son for five years"
Verb
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
Verb
listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"
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examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California"
v. t.
To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of
by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
v. t.
To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed;
to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a
judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case
will be heard to-morrow.
v. t.
To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as,
to hear a concert; to hear Mass.
v. t.
To give attention to as a teacher or judge.
v. t.
To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and
answer favorably; to favor.
v. i.
To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.
v. i.
To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or
apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen.
v. i.
To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to
receive information by report or by letter.
Hear
Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers.
He had been heard to utter an ominous growl.2.
Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
I beseech your honor to hear me one single word.5.
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice.
They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Hear
So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered not.3.
I have heard, sir, of such a man.
I must hear from thee every day in the hour.
Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings.--
Hear him, . . . a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision.
To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear;
To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.
Usage Examples
Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
All of a sudden, Hulk Hogan has become retro. Hulk Hogan has become cool again. So to come out and to hear how loud the fans are. To hear how loyal the fans are, it's truly overwhelming. I just can't believe I've been reborn in the WWE.
Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.
And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.
Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnd I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.
'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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