(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.
Overhear
Definition:
(v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
(v. t.) To hear again.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember his name being whispered by my uncles for fear I would overhear.
(2) Or the afternoon I was standing outside a hotel room awaiting a private audience with Martin Scorsese, only to overhear him complaining that he had done enough interviews for one day.
(3) One of her favourites is overhearing a colleague saying: "You can't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die."
(4) Women had complained of harassment ranging from being groped in the office and told to sit on their bosses’ laps if they wanted a Christmas bonus, to being forced to overhear male colleagues ranking new female recruits based on their sexual attractiveness.
(5) Overhearing my family say negative comments about other LGBT people made me censor myself in their presence, lest they discover that I was too.
(6) I overhear two parties from Essex reacquainting themselves, the afternoon after the early hours before.
(7) He describes overhearing Gates discussing ways to dilute his stake in the firm and says he burst into the room, shouting, "This is unbelievable!
(8) The top OIC and the overhearing battle captain informed me that they didn't need or want to know this information anymore.
(9) It's just like overhearing a friend at a party talking quietly to someone else, saying something completely different from what they had just spent an hour talking to you about.
(10) It was charged as burglary, but I remember overhearing a conversation between his dad and the solicitor standing outside: "Why is this not just shoplifting?
(11) Just as I once delighted in overhearing an American fashion journalist in Paris go nuclear down the phone at her poor assistant in New York for shipping over the wrong Balenciaga ankle boots, so I was pleased to eavesdrop on one particular English tabloid sports writer scream down his phone at his desk assistant in London to find a direct flight to Recife "or I'll go fucking ballistic".
(12) It’s a conversation that millions of Pratchett fans would ache to overhear.
(13) Overhearing Amir's comments, Parisa, 24, and her boyfriend, Mohammad, 25, erupt into an argument.
(14) Returning to uni after a three-month stint working shifts at a fish factory, I was shocked to walk through campus and overhear tales of leisurely trips to South America and South-East Asia.” Ramsden adds: “Apart from my small group of friends, who all spent the summer working to fund their university living, it seemed like everyone around me came from a background completely alien to me.” Tom Dixon, a sabbatical officer at the University of Leeds who receives a maintenance loan for his politics degree, says: “I’ve spent my entire life watching people who are less deserving being handed things on a plate just because of what they were born into.
(15) In Sense and Sensibility Elinor overhears Willoughby discussing the gift of a horse with her sister and saying, "Marianne, the horse is still yours."
(16) I feel uncomfortable being in the City or Canary Wharf,” he says, “and overhearing conversations in coffee shops and wine bars.” He finds “the certainty, the self-confidence, the reluctance to open up to alternative views” depressing.
(17) When you overhear them in the corridor discussing something they learned in your lesson, when you see their interests and talents bloom as a result of the input you have been able to give.
(18) She must be really good at giving the editor head Seeing yourself discussed online is like overhearing someone talking about you while you’re changing in the school locker room: you’re trapped, you have to stay and listen but you do it with this horrible, growing nausea.
(19) Don't worry," says a passer-by overhearing the conversation.
(20) "A Bunny's Tale" takes the form of a diary and moves from Steinem's initial decision to adopt the alias of Marie Catherine Ochs to her last day on the job when she overhears another Bunny say of a customer, "He's a real gentleman.