Meaning of ear | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
   countable
2. Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive, a file format used to package Java applications.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. The fruiting body of a grain plant.
   countable
4. The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
   countable
5. Initialism of estimated average requirements.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. Acutely attentive: Tell your story—we're all ears!
7. A police informant.
   countable, slang
8. In more than adequate amounts; overabundant.
9. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
10. To pay close attention; listen attentively.
11. The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
12. To be on the watch for new trends or information.
13. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
14. Without any influence or effect; unheeded: His mind was made up, so my arguments went in one ear and out the other.
15. An acroterium.
16. In a state of amazement, excitement, or uproar: a controversial movie that set the film industry on its ear.
17. A crossette.
18. Deeply involved or occupied fully: I'm up to my ears in work.
19. A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
20. The seed-bearing spike of a cereal plant, such as corn.
21. A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
22. To form or grow ears.
23. The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
24. The organ of hearing in humans and other vertebrate animals. The ear also plays an important role in maintaining balance. In many mammals, the ear is composed of three parts: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear.
25. A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.

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Examples

“Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.”

“No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.”

“a good ear for music”

“songs[…]not all ungrateful to thine ear”

“Dionysius[…]would give no ear to his suit.”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

“They don’t know if they’re going to have a job in a week or a month. They don’t know if they can pay the rising prices. Instead of the paradise they expected July 1, their total existence is unsure. That some foreigners get beaten—nobody has an ear for that now.”

“the ears of a tub, skillet, or dish; The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.”

“When they got as far as the little valley north of Oppenhagen - where the land-slip took place - he thought he sat between the ears of a bucket; but shortly this vanished also, and it was only then he really came to himself again.”

“In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).”

“He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.”

CEFR level