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Hearing   /hˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Hear  v. t.  (past & past part. heard; pres. part. hearing)  
1.
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. "Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers." "He had been heard to utter an ominous growl."
2.
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.
3.
To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass.
4.
To give attention to as a teacher or judge. "Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee." "I beseech your honor to hear me one single word."
5.
To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor. "I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice." "They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."
Hear him. See Remark, under Hear, v. i.
To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication. (Colloq.)
To hear say, to hear one say; to learn by common report; to receive by rumor. (Colloq.)


Hear  v. i.  (past & past part. heard; pres. part. hearing)  
1.
To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. "The hearing ear."
2.
To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen. "So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered not."
3.
To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter. "I have heard, sir, of such a man." "I must hear from thee every day in the hour."
To hear ill, to be blamed. (Obs.) "Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings."
To hear well, to be praised. (Obs.) Note: Hear, or Hear him, is often used in the imperative, especially in the course of a speech in English assemblies, to call attention to the words of the speaker. "Hear him,... a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision."


noun
Hearing  n.  
1.
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good. "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear." Note: Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimulation of the auditory nerve; the stimulus (waves of sound) acting not directly on the nerve, but through the medium of the endolymph on the delicate epithelium cells, constituting the peripheral terminations of the nerve. See Ear.
2.
Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.
3.
A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues. "His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing." "Another hearing before some other court." Note: Hearing, as applied to equity cases, means the same thing that the word trial does at law.
4.
Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. "She's not within hearing." "They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave."





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"Hearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... ground-plans thicken, and my wife is being consulted morning, noon, and night; and I never come into the room without finding their heads close together over a paper, and hearing Bob expatiate on his favorite idea of a library. He appears to have got so far as this, that the ceiling is to be of carved oak, with ribs running to a boss overhead, and finished mediaevally with ultramarine blue and gilding,—and then away he ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... did not go to school—at least to what Mr. Squills understood by the word "school"—quite so soon as intended, I need scarcely observe. In fact, my mother managed so well—my nursery, by means of double doors, was so placed out of hearing—that my father, for the most part, was privileged, if he pleased, to forget my existence. He was once vaguely recalled to it on the occasion of my christening. Now, my father was a shy man, and ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... slaughtering the infant, and there is an end of him. Ivanhoe, too, is killed at the siege,—Sir Roger de Backbite having stabbed him in the back during the scene. Had he not been then killed, his widow Rowena could not have married Athelstane, which she soon did after hearing the sad news; nor could he have had that celebrated epitaph ...
— Thackeray • Anthony Trollope
... "He only tells two-thirds of the truth." Perhaps Mr. JOHN TAYLOR, of Dagnall Park, Selhurst, is going to favour us with a little volume of "new sayings by old worthies" at Christmas time, and we shall hear how SHERIDAN once asked TOM B—— "why a miller wore a white hat?" And how ERSKINE, on hearing a witness's evidence about a door being open, explained to him that his evidence would be worthless, because a door could not be considered as a door "if it were a jar," and several other excellent stories, which, being told for the first time with ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., October 25, 1890 • Various
... water is so shallow that the crocodile could not possibly approach under cover, as is its cheerful habit. We had considerable difficulty in impressing this elementary truth on our hill-bred totos until one day, hearing wild shrieks from the direction of the river, I rushed down to find the lot huddled together in the very middle of a sand spit that-reached well out into the stream. Inquiry developed that while paddling in the shallows they had been surprised by the sudden appearance ...
— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White


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