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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



... humbler origin. On the other hand, it was necessary to drop the von, and take a middle-class name, or she would have failed to win confidence, in the beginning, as well as literary success; from opposite reasons. It is very difficult for an aristocratic German of artistic talents to obtain a hearing. Practically all the intellectuals belong to the middle-class, the aristocrats being absorbed by the army and navy. The arrogance and often brutal lack of consideration of the ruling caste, to say nothing of common politeness, have inspired universal jealousy ...
— The White Morning • Gertrude Atherton
... corners; the stock of a lance even rattled along the outer surface of the door behind which he stood; but these gentlemen were in too high a humor to be long delayed, and soon made off down a corkscrew pathway which had escaped Denis' observation, and passed out of sight and hearing along the battlements of ...
— Short-Stories • Various
... instinctively to the door, as if he apprehended some one was listening. Glossin rose, opened the door, so that from the chair in which his prisoner sate he might satisfy himself there was no eavesdropper within hearing, then shut it, resumed his seat, and repeated his question, 'You are Dirk Hatteraick, formerly of the ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... "lumber-jack," a preacher to the rough sons of the Wisconsin forests. He told me how he first won their respect by sharing their toil—he, a fragile slip of a man, and they giants in thew and muscle: how by tact and kindness he got a hearing for his Master; how he travelled scores of miles through the winter snows to nurse dying men, wrecked by wild excesses; how he had sat for hours together with the heads of drunken men, on whom the terror had fallen, resting on his knees, performing for them offices ...
— The Empire of Love • W. J. Dawson
... the publication of the Knowlton pamphlet, and the writing of the "Law of Population." Unhappily, the petition came for hearing before the then Master of the Rolls, Sir George Jessel, a man animated by the old spirit of Hebrew bigotry, to which he had added the time-serving morality of a "man of the world," sceptical as to all sincerity, ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant


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