What's the difference between ear and mear?

Ear


Definition:

  • (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear.
  • (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
  • (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
  • (n.) Same as Acroterium.
  • (n.) Same as Crossette.
  • (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
  • (v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.
  • (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
  • (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
  • (v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
  • (2) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
  • (3) Circuitry has been developed to feed the output of an ear densitogram pickup into one channel of a two-channel Holter monitor.
  • (4) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
  • (5) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
  • (8) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
  • (9) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (10) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).
  • (11) 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).
  • (12) Recurrent respiratory infections occurred in 17 (38%), and chronic recurrent middle ear effusions were noted in 33 (73%).
  • (13) The observed staining indicated that the epithelium of the external auditory meatus has a pattern of keratin expression typical of epidermis in general and the epithelium of the middle ear resembles simple columnar epithelia.
  • (14) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
  • (15) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
  • (16) 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).
  • (17) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (18) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
  • (19) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
  • (20) Most symptoms come from the ciliated airways (nose, paranasal sinuses, and bronchs) and from the middle ear.

Mear


Definition:

  • (n.) A boundary. See Mere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the 3 cases of non-bacterial prostatitis on Meares & Stamey's method was diagnosed as non-bacterial prostatitis, but the other two cases were diagnosed as urethritis.
  • (2) As director, he used his business associate Vladimir Oplanchuk, then nominee director Edward Petre-Mears in Nevis.
  • (3) Mear, who is chief executive of the Walton centre NHS foundation trust in Liverpool says: "I had been thinking about becoming a chief executive and I think that the diagnostic element of the programme gave me the clarity I was after.
  • (4) Ray Mears is working with LateRooms.com to host a Destination Inspiration event ( inspiration.laterooms.com ) The Amazon, Peru, Ed Stafford Ed Stafford In early 2008 I set off to try to become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon.
  • (5) I think it was called Ray Mears ’s World of Interiors, or something.
  • (6) So begins the final shootout between Pendleton and her one-time nemesis Anna Meares of Australia, usually unfairly billed as the Bad to Pendleton's Good, (the role of the Ugly would be played by the UCI commissaires).
  • (7) He told us: "Sarah Petre-Mears has acted as nominee for BVI [British Virgin islands] companies which this company has formed … As far as we are concerned, she has acted as a genuine nominee."
  • (8) Forty-four per cent of patients referred with symptoms of prostatitis did not have any aerobic bacteria at the prostatic level in sufficient number for the diagnosis bacterial prostatitis according to Meares and Stamey and form thus a third group.
  • (9) Mears said temperatures would reach close to 30C in the south-east, with 29C predicted on Sunday, compared to a July average of 19.4C.
  • (10) The most popular programme on BBC2 was Ray Mears: Northern Wildness, about Canada, which drew 2 million viewers and a 7% share, at 8pm.
  • (11) Mears said the high pressure was a result of "the jet stream [being] where it's supposed to be at this time of year.
  • (12) Both prostate catheter and Meares & Stamey's method were performed by crossover method in 11 patients who were highly suspected of chronic prostatitis based on symptoms and physical findings.
  • (13) Mears bought Care UK’s homecare business in 2015.
  • (14) The council has signed a partnership with Mears Group to “regenerate” seven of MK’s 1970s estates over the next 15 years.
  • (15) Meanwhile, care firm Mears Care, which made a loss last year and received an inter-company credit of around £27m in 2015, has paid out £15.8m to its parent company Mears Group over the last five years.
  • (16) (Meares 1971) A simple method of treatment under local anaesthesia is described.
  • (17) Salem's Lot as proxy for EveryTown USA (twinned with Hidden Darkness); Mark as the overly bright kid we all wish we'd been at his age; and, biggest of all, Ben Mears as the hampered writer, ruined by life, trying to write but faced with a reality that's more dangerous than anything in his mind.
  • (18) Pendleton has looked untroubled throughout the tournament so far and could well face Anna Meares in the final after the Australian made it through to the final four as well.
  • (19) Survival with Ray Mears, in which the former BBC presenter tracked leopards in Namibia, had 2.355 million (10.8%) in the 7pm hour on ITV1.
  • (20) Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Burnout and Survival, hosted by Ray Mears, complete the quartet of shows hoping to bask in the reflected glow.

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