What's the difference between audible and hear?

Audible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.
  • (n.) That which may be heard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The attacks were detected by audible wheeze, augmentation of diaphragm, external intercostal and sternomastoid activity, associated with distinctive changes in thoracoabdominal motion.
  • (2) The results showed that mangabeys exhibit an audibility function nearly indistinguishable from that for blue monkeys (Brown and Waser 1984).
  • (3) The entire range of frequencies audible to the bat is systematically represented along the dorsal-ventral dimension of the columnar area.
  • (4) But organisers said that the vuvuzela, one of the most visible and certainly most audible motifs of the tournament's opening weekend, could yet be banned from inside stadiums.
  • (5) The minimum audible movement angle (MAMA) thus defined was observed to increase as the source velocity increased.
  • (6) In the 14 general surgical patients, intestinal viability and collateral mesenteric blood flows were determined, which demonstrated that the presence of audible arterial blood flow correlated with ultimate bowel viability.
  • (7) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
  • (8) Six patients had no audible murmur; four had grade 1 to 2 innocent murmurs.
  • (9) Clinically audible murmurs were present in only two patients.
  • (10) Eighty-two patients with audible clicking were evaluated and treated with splints made by using arthrographic assistance.
  • (11) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
  • (12) Email from Jack Underwood: It seems like Luck audibles on every single down.
  • (13) For normal-hearing subjects, an orderly function relating the percentage of audible stimulus to recognition performance was found, with perfect discrimination performance occurring when the bulk of the stimulus spectrum was presented at suprathreshold levels.
  • (14) All three patients suffered from pain in the abdomen and back, a palpable pulsatile abdominal mass and an audible continuous harsh bruit.
  • (15) Experimental bruxism, audible, nonfunctional grinding or clenching of the teeth, was provoked in aggressive animals by drugs affecting central dopaminergic systems.
  • (16) Audible wheezing was induced in 100% of the asthmatics and in none of the nonasthmatics.
  • (17) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
  • (18) In the reaction time task, saccades and arm movements were commonly triggered by the rapid, visible and audible opening of a small food-containing box which was located at a constant position in front of the animal at eye level.
  • (19) But we’re happy to see the president.” As Xi and the royals went past, activists from the Free Tibet campaign shouted slogans and waved flags, audible above the cheers of the crowd.
  • (20) Study 2 assessed the impact of a student confederate who lowered his or her observer-audible headphone volume at the polite request of a second student confederate.

Hear


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
  • (2) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
  • (3) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
  • (4) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (5) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (6) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
  • (7) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
  • (8) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
  • (9) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
  • (10) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
  • (11) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
  • (12) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
  • (13) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (14) The present study observed that a 40-dB hearing loss, beginning at 17 days postpartum, requires 2 days before it induces susceptibility to audiogenic seizures.
  • (15) Preliminary hearing results of 45 cases show air-bone gap closure of 67% within 10 dB and 98% within 20 dB.
  • (16) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (17) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
  • (18) Proper education of both managment and labor can result in successful hearing conservation programs.
  • (19) Most patients manifest either vertigo, tinnitus, or a variable hearing loss.
  • (20) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.