(v. i.) To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
(v. i.) To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
(v. t.) To attend to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
(3) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(4) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(5) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(6) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(7) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(8) You’d know that if you listened to them and saw their presence as more than tokenism.
(9) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(10) Working in clinical areas and listening to staff and patients, hearing about possible improvements and seeing benefits when you make the service changes.
(11) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
(12) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(13) It has me as a listener and I am keen as well on sciences, arts, geography, history and politics, and I belong to two campaigns in Brighton and Chichester against privatisation of the NHS, and with some successes.
(14) 6. prepared by Northwestern University, were then derived, concurrently with functions of the Auditec version, using (1) a group of listeners with normal hearing; and (2) a group with sensorineural hearing loss.
(15) By nightfall, Admiralty had filled up with hundreds of protesters, many listening to music performances and speeches by protest leaders.
(16) It was listening to the then state legislator Obama at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston when he spoke about America not being red or blue but a place where "you don't have to be rich in order to fulfil your potential".
(17) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
(18) Wait, listen, observe the dynamic of the group and gradually you will be able to see how you fit in and how you can bring something different and valuable to that meeting.
(19) But DAB radio, the likely broadcast replacement for analogue AM and FM in the digital-only age, saw its share of listening drop, to 15.3% from 15.8% in the second quarter of 2010.
(20) They are learning that education isn’t stimulating and nobody is listening to their needs.
Stethoscope
Definition:
(n.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
(v. t.) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) A specially designed acoustic stethoscope electronic-computer-analysis system has repeatedly detected and identified angiographically demonstrated anteriorly located intracranial aneurysms by their characteristic signals.
(2) The response of stethoscopes and chest microphones depends on the impedance of the sound source, which must therefore have the same impedance as the body, and must emit a signal related to the sound intensity in the body when no instrument is applied.
(3) So in this extreme case our nuclear stethoscope-like RKG-RCG method alone may be satisfactory for staging and screening of coronary ischaemic heart disease (IHD) patients.
(4) The invention in 1819 of the stethoscope by Laënnec was followed by the first classification of pulmonary adventitial sounds.
(5) In Group A the detection of air embolus varied from 6% using an oesophageal stethoscope to 58% by the Doppler method.
(6) Selective use of the open-bell and diaphragm sound chambers is assured with this new stethoscope.
(7) With the help of a child's stethoscope and a tuning fork of 128 Hz, the sound conducted by an injured limb was compared with that by the uninjured limb.
(8) The importance of frequency components outside the bandpass of the stethoscope is stressed, especially in terms of the possibility of yielding more clinical information and, perhaps, additional clues above the origin of the Korotkoff sounds themselves.
(9) Twenty-one anesthesia clinicians evaluated the stethoscope and responded to a multiple-choice preference questionnaire.
(10) Three readings by two observers using a double stethoscope were first compared to each other to determine a standard and then averaged and compared to readings obtained using the P4.
(11) One hundred men with proven fertility who presented for vasectomy consultation were examined for testicular size and presence of a varicocele, including examination with the Doppler stethoscope for the presence of subclinical varicocele.
(12) The two listening pieces used for correlation and comparison were the bell and the diaphragm of the stethoscope.
(13) As he checks the woman’s heart with a stethoscope, he explains exactly what is about to happen to her – the nurses will hook her up to an EKG machine, among other procedures – and gets the woman to lie down, still muttering at the original nurse but pliable.
(14) Clinical examination was done by two investigators, who used a stethoscope to detect TMJ sounds.
(15) This study assessed the capabilities of a traditional and an amplified stethoscope used by flight nurses to assess breath sound during air medical transport in an MBB BO-105 helicopter.
(16) For purposes of postoperative control of arterio-venous anastomoses, the typical shunt sound is observed by stethoscope.
(17) Using a modified electronic stethoscope, a simple visual method has been developed for bedside estimation of systolic and diastolic intervals.
(18) The purpose of the study was to determine whether mothers could assume more responsibility in decision-making with regard to their children's asthmatic attacks after basic technical guidance in the use of the stethoscope and in the interpretation of auscultatory findings.
(19) There is also the possibility of testing with the stethoscope.
(20) A relatively high number of fatal complications during hysteroscopy, where carbon dioxide was used as the uterine distension medium, plus a recent report on heart embolism during dog experiments with venous carbon dioxide infusion, audible by simple stethoscopic surveillance during the infusion, prompted the present study.