Find the word definition

Crossword clues for aural

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aural
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gallon Drunk are an aural offence.
▪ However, lower your aural sights a little and £200 - £300 will get you a perfectly adequate operator.
▪ Maybe they genuinely like their kind of aural semolina.
▪ The aural assaults detracted from the pleasure of the dances, to say the least.
▪ The effect is often more of a complex aural collage than a medley of covers and originals.
▪ The sound track gives us the aural before the visual cue; it is as if the thunder arrives before the lightning.
▪ To give the learner visual, tactile and aural stimuli, which increase the learning experience.
▪ We hope the trend continues, until such aural excursions become a regular happening rather than a rare treat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aural

Aural \Au"ral\, a. [L. auris ear.] Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

Aural

Aural \Au"ral\, a. [L. aura air.] Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aural

1847, "pertaining to the ear," from Latin auris "ear" (see ear (n.1)) + -al (1). Meaning "received or perceived by ear" is attested from 1860. Related: Aurally.

Wiktionary
aural

Etymology 1 a. 1 Of or pertaining to the ear. 2 Of or pertaining to sound. Etymology 2

a. Of or pertaining to an aura.

WordNet
aural
  1. adj. of or pertaining to hearing or the ear; "an animal with a very sensitive aural apparatus"

  2. relating to or characterized by an aura; "various aural effects that precede a migraine headache"

Usage examples of "aural".

The instrument was, however, too large to be an aural or nasal speculum but too small to be anything else.

Bach seemed to swirl and spin throughout her very being, like some kind of aural kaleidoscope.

When Minstrels gave concerts, the beings massed outside were treated to an aural ecstasy unparalleled in power and beauty.

Music of War roared and pummeled every aural sensory receptor, and moved the allied fleets forward with grim determination.

So perhaps he had an edited cerebral chemistry, or an adaptive aural processing mutation in his derivative Kido lineage.

It must be lonely indeed without the music and practicing noises, very unwise to have an Offshoot who fills the aural environment too.

He realized Carialle had created the aural effect by activating only his left ear implant.

The primary question therefore seems to be, can clairvoyance adequately substitute for the routine and legally sufficient visual and aural observations as basis for a sworn statement on which a search warrant may validly issue?

Christmas in the shopping center: aural merchandisers also loop their tracks.

Removal of the hair-pin was effected by first inserting within the meatus a Gruber speculum, encircling the unbroken projecting prong, and then raising the end of the broken one with a long-shanked aural hook, when the hair-pin was readily withdrawn.

Then suddenly that rustling ceased, for it was overscored by a whisper which undoubtedly came from the aperture on which my aural attention was fixed.

There were stopples in his ears to prevent aural distraction once he had started to speak.

It had been so long since Rudy had spoken anything but the Wathe himself-or occasional English to Gil-that it came as a shock to hear something through the Spell of Tongues, the aural equivalent of the simultaneous vision of the walls.

Denver, Christa shifted into her most rarefied melodies: pointillistic licks that left in their wake only an aural impression of tension and of movement.

When I first began to operate on aural haematomata I used to pack the interior with gauze then bandage the ear to the head.