Meaning of hear | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To perceive sounds through the ear.
   intransitive, stative
2. Used to express approval.
3. To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
   stative, transitive
4. To be complained to or told about (something) repeatedly or for a long time.
5. To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
   transitive
6. To receive (an idea) and take it into consideration:consider, entertain, think of.
7. To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
   transitive
8. a small electronic instrument which helps deaf people to hear better by making sounds louder by means of an amplifier. gehoortoestel سَمّاعَة الأصَم слухов апарат aparelho de audição naslouchátko die Hörhilfe høreapparat ακουστικό βαρηκοΐαςaudífono kuuldeaparaat سمعك kuulolaite appareil acoustique מַכשִׁיר שְׁמִיעָה श्रवण यंत्र aparat za nagluhe hallásjavító készülék alat bantu rungu heyrnartæki apparecchio acustico 補聴器 보청기 klausos aparatas dzirdes aparāts alat pendengaran gehoorapparaathørea...
9. To receive information about; to come to learn of.
   transitive
10. that which one has been told about by others but for which one has otherwise no evidence. I never trust anything that I learn by hearsay. hoorsê, gerugte إشاعَه، تَقَوُّلات слух boato doslech das Hörensagen rygte φήμηrumor kuulujutt شايعه kuulopuhe ouï-direשמועה अफवाह glasine, naklapanja hallomás desas-desus sögusögn, kvittur sentito dire うわさ 소문, 풍문 nuogirdos baumas khabar angin van horenzeggen folkesnakk, ryktepogłoska بول ، ډنډوره ، اوازه ، انګازه ، خبر boato vorbe; (din) auzite слухи čo sa...
11. To be contacted by.
12. a shout to show that one agrees with what a speaker has said (eg in Parliament or at a meeting). hoor! hoor! إسْمَع! إسْمَع! تَعبير عن الموافَقَه да, да apoiado! výborně! Bravo!Stimmt! hørt! Hørt! εύγε! (επιφ.) así es õige! õige! نشانه موافقت kannatetaan bravo! נָכוֹן! הֵידָד! सुनो, सुनो tako je! halljuk! halljuk! saya mendengar! heyr! heyr! bravo!, bene! 賛成 찬성! teisingai! teisingai! pareizi! pareizi! setuju! setuju! Hoor je dat? hør! hør! Słusznie!, Racja! د برياليتوب نښانه apoiado! bravo! п...
    eg
13. To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
    transitive
14. I, he etc will or would not allow. They would not hear of her going home alone, and insisted on going with her. wil nie hoor van, draai 'n dowe oor لن أسْمَع! لن أوافِق! не позволявам não admito, etc., que nechtít ani slyšet o etwas nicht dulden høre tale om δεν επιτρέπω, δε θέλω ούτε να ακούσω no querer ni oír hablar de, negarse a, ni hablar ei taha kuuldagi اجازه دادن ei halua kuulla puhuttavankaan jostakin ne pas vouloir entendre parler de לֹא אַסכִּים לְכָך इजाजत नहीं देना ni da cujem o t...
    etc
15. To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
    informal, transitive
16. vt. oír, escuchar, [heard] oído; best heard sound → el sonido mejor oído;
17. To study under.
    Greek, transitive
18. To perceive (sound) by the ear: Can you hear the signal?
19. To learn by hearing; be told by others: I heard she got married.

Equivalents

Examples

“I was deaf, but now I can hear.”

“I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument.”

“Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.”

“Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?”

“It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]””

“Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.”

“Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]”

“I haven't heard from you in a while; how have you been?”

“When I don't hear from you, My days feel long and lonely.”

“They're ten hours overdue. Have you heard from any of them since they left Nineveh?”

“She left and I never heard from her again.”

“Your case will be heard at the end of the month.”

“You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.”

“SPHÆRUS was of Bosphorus, he first heard Zeno, then Cleanthes, and having made a sufficient progresse in learning, went to Alexandria to Ptolomy Philopater […]”

“Ammonius, the teacher of both Simplicius and Philoponus, tells us how Julian gave a ruling […] in favor of Maximus, who had heard Iamblichus, and followed him and Porphyry (in An. Pr. 31,15–22).”

“Charmadas, never actually Head of School but a prominent Academic who had himself heard Carneades, was prepared to teach Plato’s Gorgias […]”

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