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Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
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hearing
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hearing is the sense by which sound is perceived. Hearing may also refer to: Hearing (law) , a legal proceeding before a court or other decision-making body or officer Preliminary hearing United States congressional hearing Hearing (person) , a person who ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Able to hear. n. (context uncountable English) The sense used to perceive sound. v (present participle of hear English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hearing \Hear"ing\, n. 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. --Job xlii. 5. Note: Hearing in a special sensation, ...
Usage examples of hearing.
Apparently the golden-haired woman still resented the fact that she would not be going with him, but her reaction to hearing her native accents in Tear made that impossible.
No one ever had trouble hearing what Adams had to say, nor was there ever the least ambiguity about what he meant.
A few years earlier, hearing that Trumbull was to undertake such a commission, Adams had lectured him on the importance of accuracy.
Before leaving he had made sure to visit Anna Hauptmann, and to tell her in plain hearing of half the village that he was off to fetch his bride to Albany so she could testify on her own behalf and clear up these misunderstandings.
He had things to discuss with Albright he could not discuss within the hearing of Sampson.
On hearing from the alcaide the cause of the affray, he acted with becoming dignity, ordering the guards from the room and directing that the renegade should be severely punished for daring to infringe the hospitality of the palace and insult an embassador.
Not a word is spoken, but so keen is the hearing of the sleeping otter, the drip of the lifted paddle has not splashed into the sea before the otter has awakened, looked and dived like lightning to the bottom of the sea before one of the Aleut hunters can hurl his spear.
They had noticed that, whereas everyone else had seven apertures, for sight, hearing, eating, breathing and so on, Chaos had none.
If she had not answered thus, the merchant would have gone away without hearing his future bride speak.
I sank deeper in my chair and let him get on with it, only half hearing erudite remarks about the latest anthelmintics and their actions on trichostrongyles, haemonchus and ostertagia.
Gemma sitting on the couch beside this strange, doll-like woman with her heavy Puerto Rican accent, hearing her call Ianthe Apeiron a monster to her face, while the lady so accused placidly passed lemonade like a serving girl?
That was a common enough name, but not one that Susanna could remember hearing before in connection with Appleton Manor.
That Little Arcady was unequal to this broader view, however, was to be inferred from comments made in the hearing of and often, in truth, meant for the ears of Solon Denney.
Yes or no, did I yield to the paroxysm of choler which possessed me on hearing of the engagement of Ardea and on finding that I was in the presence of that equivocal Hafner?
Hearing at Santa Catalina that Buenos Ayres was almost abandoned, and that the inhabitants had founded the town of Asuncion del Paraguay, Alvar determined to march thither by land, and send his ship into the river Plate and up the Paraguay.