What's the difference between heard and unheard?

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.

Unheard


Definition:

  • (a.) Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by those present.
  • (a.) Not granted an audience or a hearing; not allowed to speak; not having made a defense, or stated one's side of a question; disregarded; unheeded; as, to condem/ a man unheard.
  • (a.) Not known to fame; not illustrious or celebrated; obscure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two British throwers up there, it's unheard of, I'm pleased with where the sport's going."
  • (2) We’ve sent out all the boards and there’s still loads of people flooding in, we don’t know what to do.’ It happened in Leeds North West, too – they started the day, they had so many activists that they went: ‘Right, let’s scrap our whole strategy, we’re going to just print off the electoral register instead’ – and rather than focusing on likely Labour voters, which is what you would normally do, they knocked on all the doors on the electoral register – that’s unheard of.” The seat saw a 14% swing to Labour, overturning a Lib Dem majority of almost 3,000 and replacing it with a 4,000 Labour lead.
  • (3) Neurosyphilis after penicillin therapy was almost unheard of in the United States until it began to appear in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients.
  • (4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
  • (5) To ‘pass’ as black is comparatively unheard of,” Fairchild said in an email.
  • (6) Between them they signed a number of previously unheard-of players, some of which have proved successful – Fabricio Coloccini and Jonás Guttiérez – while others, such as Xisco, failed to impress.
  • (7) It is all but unheard of for a chief crown prosecutor to appear in court – particularly one as eminent as Saunders, who oversees nearly 200,000 cases a year and a budget of almost £100m.
  • (8) But you have also to remember that it was a group of no more than 30 people, yet it did something unheard -of - it took up a concept and followed it through in a very German-determined way.'
  • (9) For the young men on the trains, it was the first glimpse of a country which promised wealth and stability unheard of in the countries they had left behind.
  • (10) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
  • (11) With only five classrooms, girls are being taught side-by-side with their male counterparts – which is unheard of among such conservative communities.
  • (12) To limit the American physician to only one drug in this large group of drugs is unheard of.
  • (13) Most did not possess the eloquence of Dr King when he described riots as “the language of the unheard”.
  • (14) The investigation and adjudication process operates in most parts unseen and unheard,” he said.
  • (15) We provide a forum to enable that engagement and to amplify the voices of the unheard.
  • (16) In silent dying rooms, hidden away in unmentionable and unseen places, thousands gasp out their last, their wishes ignored, unheard, their suffering unrecorded as death notices pretend they "passed away peacefully".
  • (17) Scientific and technological development in morphological disciplines has created an creates unheard of possibilities for scientific research and practical examination of morphological changes and in its consequences has contributed also in a substantial way to a change in fundamental views on the subcellular and supramolecular structural level of the organization of living matter.
  • (18) The ticket and extras Anecdotal evidence suggests that prom tickets typically cost between £20 and £35 per person, though £50 or even more is not unheard of.
  • (19) As a result, McQueen had a practical knowledge that was unusual 20 years ago, and would be unheard of now.
  • (20) Such an upset would be unheard of in Spain or Germany.

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