hear meaning
EN[hɪə(ɹ)] [hɪɚ] [-ɪə(ɹ)]UK US
WHear
- To hear is to detect sound.
- Hear or HEAR may also refer to:
- Hear! Trixter album
- Hear (Diesel album), an album by Diesel
- El Arish International Airport, North Sinai, Egypt
- Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project
- H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers)
- VerbSGhearsPRhearingPT, PPheard
- (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear.
- I was deaf, and now I can hear.
- (transitive) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- I heard a sound from outside the window.
- (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
- Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.
- (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
- (transitive) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
- Your case will be heard at the end of the month.
- (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.
- You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.
- (intransitive) To perceive sounds through the ear.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The student's had the chance to hear the stories straight from the horses's mouths in the field interviews.
- As can be witnessed in a performance of that work by Fleisher, it is indeed a dazzling display piece in which, if it is only heard and not seen, its one-handedness might evade listeners' notice.
- Some of the elders had heard rumors that Nathaniel was watching television by himself and paying specific attention to programs that featured females who were cladly dressed.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- This's got to be the worst speech I've ever heard.
- If we say something and people reject it because they don't like that it is true then we must resay it, and keep resaying it, until the truth is heard.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of hear in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary