What's the difference between heard and sheard?

Heard


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hear
  • () imp. & p. p. of Hear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
  • (2) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (3) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (4) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
  • (5) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
  • (6) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
  • (7) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (8) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
  • (9) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (10) This is the most crucial issue of our time and the people must be heard, not criminalised."
  • (11) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (12) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
  • (13) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (14) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (15) In Iten, I heard stories of athletes being told weeks in advance when to attend the testing centre in Eldoret.
  • (16) When I heard it, I thought of Sherpa as a first name, like the Edmund in Edmund Hillary, rather than as a description, like the Desperate in Desperate Dan.
  • (17) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
  • (18) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (19) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
  • (20) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.

Sheard


Definition:

  • (n.) See Shard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Significant differences (p less than 0.05) were determined between the symptomatic and asymptomatic groups for gender, near phoria through a +2.00 D add, accommodative amplitude, positive vergences at near, and both the classical Sheard's and the new criterion.
  • (2) The purpose of this study was to assess a new criterion for binocular comfort analogous to the classical Sheard's criterion.
  • (3) The brag was made to a young woman in Toronto, Marjorie Sheard, with whom Salinger had been corresponding, and has come to light after the nine letters sent by the author to Sheard were sold by the now 95-year-old and her family to pay for her care.
  • (4) He would sign off his letters to Sheard with pseudonyms such as "Fitzdudley", "Wormsley-Bassett" and "Flo and Benjy".
  • (5) Diane Sheard, UK director of the ONE Campaign, said: “The monitoring of the goals needs a sharp focus on accountability, backed by investments in data collection and use so that citizens have the information they need to ensure that leaders keep their promises.” The UN has estimated that the new goals could cost as much as $172.5tn (£110.67tn) over the 15-year timeframe .
  • (6) The surface areas of seven Taiwan monkeys were determined by applying the plastic tape on sheard skin.
  • (7) The new criterion was the best discriminator between the groups, identifying 72% correctly, an improvement of 6% over the classical Sheard's.
  • (8) Later, in 1942, Salinger would tell Sheard that "God and Harold Ross [the New Yorker's founding editor] alone know what that bunch of pixies on the staff are doing with my poor script" – he was still awaiting its publication, which had been delayed by the war.
  • (9) Sheard was an aspiring author who had read some of Salinger's first short stories, and got in touch asking for advice.
  • (10) In three drafts, Heckert hit on Joe Haden, TJ Ward, Montario Hardesty, Phil Taylor, Jabaal Sheard, Greg Little, Buster Skrine, Eric Hagg, Mitchell Schwartz, John Hughes, Travis Benjamin and Billy Winn.
  • (11) He described it to Sheard as "the first Holden story" – it would appear in altered form as a chapter in The Catcher in the Rye.
  • (12) Professor Sally Sheard Liverpool • Looking at the situation of ENO ( Music director of embattled English National Opera resigns , 23 March) from across the border, the most obvious question is this: how can a “national” opera company sit in an expensive base in the capital rather than tour the nation it purports to represent?
  • (13) A rotation of Jabaal Sheard, Paul Kruger and first-round draft pick Barkevious Mingo at outside linebacker ought to ensure a ferocious pass rush – though the latter will miss the start of the season with a lung injury.
  • (14) Instead of equating the fusional demand with the monocular phoria as is done when Sheard's criterion is applied, the new criterion uses a calculated binocular fusional demand.
  • (15) Sheard's criterion was the best discriminator for the exophoric group, and amount of heterophoria was the best discriminator for the esophoric group.
  • (16) It also sends a strong signal to developing countries that we will continue to keep our aid promise to them, and to other rich countries that they too must meet their aid targets.” Concern Worldwide’s executive director, Rose Caldwell, said: “We can be proud that we are the only G7 country to meet the 45-year-old UN commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on development aid.” Diane Sheard, UK director of the ONE campaign , said: “The promise of a law to protect the UK’s lifesaving aid budget was in all major parties’ 2010 election manifestos.
  • (17) Closing 24 branches and leaving just two open would be the "nuclear option", Kirklees council leader David Sheard told the Huddersfield Daily Examiner , with the situation set to go to public consultation in the autumn.
  • (18) Sheard's criterion was a good discriminator for exo deviations, and a variant of Percival's criterion was good for eso deviations.
  • (19) However, various stepwise discriminant analysis procedures consistently failed to demonstrate that the calculated binocular fusional demand or the new criterion was superior to the near phoria or the classical Sheard's value.

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