Hearing is the sense that allows you to distinguish sounds with your ears. Dogs have a particularly acute sense of hearing, and they can hear sounds pitched too high for humans to hear.
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived;
Noun
the act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing"
Noun
(law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
Noun
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired"
Noun
a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken; "the investigative committee will hold hearings in Chicago"
Noun
the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot"
Noun
an opportunity to state your case and be heard; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience"
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hear
n.
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound;
the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is
good.
n.
Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard;
audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.
n.
A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of
adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and
determining issues.
n.
Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot.
Hearing
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear.
His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing.
Another hearing before some other court.
They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived;
Usage Examples
Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
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Other Usage ExamplesAn agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
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