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Hearing   /hˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Hearing

noun
1.
(law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence.
2.
An opportunity to state your case and be heard.  Synonym: audience.  "He saw that he had lost his audience"
3.
The range within which a voice can be heard.  Synonyms: earreach, earshot.
4.
The act of hearing attentively.  Synonym: listening.  "They make good music--you should give them a hearing"
5.
A session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken.
6.
The ability to hear; the auditory faculty.  Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing.
adjective
1.
Able to perceive sound.


Hear

verb
(past & past part. heard; pres. part. hearing)
1.
Perceive (sound) via the auditory sense.
2.
Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.  Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, pick up, see.  "I see that you have been promoted"
3.
Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process.  Synonym: try.  "The case will be tried in California"
4.
Receive a communication from someone.
5.
Listen and pay attention.  Synonyms: listen, take heed.  "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"



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"Hearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hearing the beat of hoofs behind him, he looked over his shoulder to see four other troopers closing rapidly down upon him. Clearly he was the object of their attention. He had been a fool not to have perceived this earlier, ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini
... the case, his view agreeing much better with Dr. May's own than that with Mr. Ward's. Dr. May had never been entirely satisfied with the present mode of treatment, and Richard was much struck by hearing him say, in answer to Sir Matthew, that he knew his recovery might have been more speedy and less painful if he had been able to attend to it at first, or to afford time for being longer laid up. A change ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... and the ardour of his confidence in the so?called friends of freedom had been greatly cooled. But in 1791, the disruption between Burke and Fox became open, absolute, and final, when the latter statesman uttered, in the hearing of his friend, this fearful eulogium on the French Revolution:—"The new constitution of France is the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... some music (but he said he durst not avow it), where I might hear the queen play upon the virginals. After I had hearkened a while I took by [aside] the tapestry that hung before the door of the chamber, and stood a pretty space, hearing her play excellently well; but she left off immediately so soon as she turned her about and saw me. She appeared to be surprised to see me, and came forward, seeming to strike me with her hand, alledging she ...
— Shakespeare and Music - With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries • Edward W. Naylor
... cliff, pushing mules down the cliff: hundreds more are bathing, and through this pandemonium pass the quiet stretchers bearing pale, blood-stained, smiling burdens. First we spent some time speaking to groups of Officers and men and hearing what the Beachmasters and Engineers had to say; next we saw as many of the wounded as we could and then I walked across to the Headquarters of the 29th Division (half a mile) to see Hunter-Weston. A strange abode for ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton


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