(v. i.) To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.
(v. i.) To inquire; to seek information.
(v. t.) To hear by listening.
(v. t.) To give heed to; to hear attentively.
Example Sentences:
(1) In terms of style, the “vintage” yet “updated” line hearkens back to the brand’s rough-and-tumble roots.
(2) But in the last century, some druidic orders began hearkening to the rising tides of paganism and pantheism, and by the time hippies and crusties began gathering at the stones to celebrate the solstice, there was at least some common cause between the men with goat-headed staffs and those with long white robes.
Obey
Definition:
(v. t.) To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.
(v. t.) To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.
(v. t.) To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.
(v. i.) To give obedience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(2) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(3) Maybe he was simply obeying orders, since Gordon Brown is not about to sanction a radical overhaul of the tripartite system of financial regulation he created.
(4) In contrast, Na+ uptake in the steady state obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
(5) The durg obeyed two-compartment model kinetics in serum, and elimination was monoexponential from 1 to 2 h after dosing.
(6) The data also indicated that the particle-size distributions were largely independent of the type of solution and obeyed a power law of the form N greater than D = N greater than 1DK.
(7) A leading Democratic member of Congress, Dave Obey, chairman of the House appropriations committee, called for him to be sacked.
(8) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
(9) Calcium conductances (g(Ca)) as functions of time and voltage were found to be described quantitatively on the assumption that g(Ca) is determined by two variables (m and h), according to the equation g(Ca) = m(6)hg(Ca), where g(Ca) is a constant and m and h obey first order differential equations of the Hodgkin-Huxley type.6.
(10) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
(11) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
(12) The strength of this genetic control, however, systematically diminished throughout the course of practice obeying a monotonic trend over trials.
(13) This interaction is expressed by phenomena that obey similar parameters.
(14) However, there was relatively restricted diffusion in the collecting tubules; this may account for the failure of whole kidney ammonium excretion to obey quantitatively the predictions of nonionic diffusion and diffusion equilibrium of ammonia.
(15) Analysis of drug pharmacokinetics in numerous species demonstrates that drug elimination among species is predictable and, in general, obeys the power equation Y = aWb.
(16) 'Your only right is to obey': lawyer describes torture in China's secret jails Read more Separate reports have said two other civil rights attorneys, Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang, have also been tortured while in custody.
(17) The inhibition of the amidolytic activity of highly purified kallikrein preparations from human blood plasma obeys the pseudo-first order kinetics.
(18) Twenty two patients with confirmed MI obeying strict inclusion and exclusion criteria were studied.
(19) Assuming that the catalytic action of the enzyme obeys a Michaelis-Menten rate expression and that the deactivation of the enzyme follows a first-order decay, the present analysis employs the dimensionless, integrated form of the overall rate expression to obtain a criterion (based on the maximization of the determinant of the derivative matrix) that relates the a priori estimates of the parameters with the times at which samples should be withdrawn from the reacting mixture.
(20) "It doesn't mean we're going to establish a theocracy and force people to obey what they think is God's law."