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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deaf
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be born blind/deaf etc (=be blind, deaf etc when born)
deaf mute
go mad/deaf/bald etc
▪ He went crazy and tried to kill her.
stone deaf
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
profoundly
▪ People born profoundly deaf, or who become so in early childhood, may well not develop intelligible speech.
totally
▪ In London alone there are between 5,000 and 6,000 totally deaf adults and children travelling about the roads daily.
▪ That's why he's been picked because his mistress is totally deaf, and partially sighted.
■ NOUN
child
▪ The findings are the same in virtually all cases: deaf children lag behind their hearing counterparts.
▪ The deaf children of hearing parents are almost normal in comparison, having everything except language experience.
▪ The numbers of deaf children are decreasing, and some causes such as rubella can be completely eradicated as medical prevention programmes improve.
▪ The latter is a developmental vocabulary primarily used with deaf children with learning difficulties.
▪ Does it adequately outline assessment procedures which will identify the needs of the deaf child?
▪ All normal deaf children can develop in the oral system.
▪ Some deaf children are, however, very proficient at sign language and they can also spell out words using finger spelling.
community
▪ Statements on the supposed needs of deaf people can in turn be questioned by members of the deaf community themselves.
▪ They showed the tapes to leaders of the Managua deaf community, who then went to meet with Los Pipitos.
▪ The way they are answered will benefit both hearing and deaf communities alike.
▪ This is a significant action and a great day for the deaf community.
▪ The local mission became the focal point of the deaf community which it served.
▪ Their role and importance within the deaf community, particularly in the early days, are difficult to exaggerate.
▪ Is the hearing community much larger than the deaf community?
▪ On his return he continued his discussions with leaders of the deaf community and other missioners.
ear
▪ How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered?
▪ Invitations by Paredes to the various governors to second his plan fell on deaf ears.
▪ They may display their feelings by refusing to eat, and turning a deaf ear to anyone who calls their name.
▪ But my suggestions fell on deaf ears.
▪ They formulated a programme of demands, but these fell on deaf ears in Petrograd.
▪ He could not hear me because I was speaking into his deaf ear and the room was abuzz with other conversations.
▪ When John the Baptist appeared his appeal did not fall upon deaf ears.
▪ Thus, year after year, working people turn a deaf ear to union entreaties.
education
▪ So it is no surprise that the Milan Conference had a profound long-ranging effect on deaf education.
▪ In the short term, however, the Milan Conference had the beneficial result of placing deaf education on the political agenda.
▪ The state thus assumed responsibility for deaf education but, as we shall see, its advance had a chequered history.
man
▪ A meeting of deaf adults was called, and they appointed a deaf man called William Ure as their delegate.
▪ The result was that many deaf men were unable to obtain work.
▪ He was unique amongst deaf men of the early twentieth century.
▪ Unemployed deaf men, who were not in short supply, were employed in that capacity.
▪ It was due to his influence and suggestion that many able deaf men were appointed to do valuable missionary work amongst their fellows.
▪ Often included was a humorous presentation by a deaf man.
▪ He was probably the first deaf man in the world to do so.
▪ After the war, he was made a Freeman of London, again a unique achievement for a deaf man.
mute
▪ The children were raised by deaf mutes.
▪ The deaf mute said the company would never discriminate against a disabled employee.
▪ But deaf mutes are often treated well, because they have a positive image, Ahmad said.
▪ But deaf mutes and epileptics both have the right to workplace accommodations, Ahmad said.
▪ Using the pen he had bought from the deaf mute, he set about his task with diligence.
▪ The deaf mute nodded once very briefly and then moved on, leaving Quinn with the pen in his hand.
parent
▪ Like his predecessor, he was a hearing son of deaf parents, and therefore a fluent signer.
▪ Tom Crellin, a hearing son of deaf parents, had followed in his father's footsteps as a missioner.
▪ It is not only deaf parents who could have affected children.
▪ The project has also led to a small midwifery team being established at Wythenshawe Hospital to care for deaf parents.
▪ The research team has also lobbied firms about updating and adapting their video material for deaf parents.
people
▪ But perhaps the most important feature which makes communication possible across different sign languages is the shared culture of deaf people.
▪ Do hearing people tend to occupy more influential positions in technology than do deaf people?
▪ This finding suggests close interaction between deaf people belonging to these different groups.
▪ It was full of people with disabilities, deaf people, people in wheelchairs and all manner of others.
▪ On two occasions, deaf people were responsible for saving the lives of the pilots.
▪ There were moments of black humour as well regarding the safety of deaf people in wartime conditions.
▪ His paper gave many examples of high intellectual attainments by various deaf people.
▪ It was made clear that all missioners, superintendents and hearing clergymen interested in deaf people were cordially invited to attend.
person
▪ An example is threatening a deaf person.
▪ They shouted as if to a deaf person or an idiot.
▪ The benefit of the system is it only requires the deaf person to have the special electronics and screen.
▪ Given appropriate communications support the deaf person can match the hearing person in most fields.
▪ Anyone can ring the deaf person via an ordinary touch tone telephone.
▪ One deaf person who did come through to play a leading role in deaf affairs was David Fyfe.
▪ The award is given annually to a deaf person of outstanding merit in leadership, citizenship and general achievement.
▪ He remains the only deaf person in Britain ever to be appointed headmaster of a deaf school by a local education authority.
school
▪ They had no experience whatsoever of any deaf school.
▪ The first deaf school in Britain opened its doors only in 1764.
▪ He remains the only deaf person in Britain ever to be appointed headmaster of a deaf school by a local education authority.
student
▪ And yet young deaf students have great difficulty in getting a place at university.
▪ Can public schools provide sign language interpreters for deaf students attending religious schools?
woman
▪ They consulted deaf women and their interpreters, and re-evaluated their work, to make sure they were getting it right.
▪ Do you remember Mrs Richards, the deaf woman, played by Joan Sanderson?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dad's partially deaf and needs a hearing aid.
▪ Her second child, Oscar, was born deaf.
▪ More programmes these days have subtitles for the deaf.
▪ Mr Farrer, a white-haired man in his fifties, had been stone deaf since he was a child.
▪ There is no reason why deaf people wouldn't lead perfectly normal lives.
▪ You'll need to speak quite loudly because my father's going deaf.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All normal deaf children can develop in the oral system.
▪ But the union message today is increasingly falling upon deaf ears.
▪ Does it adequately outline assessment procedures which will identify the needs of the deaf child?
▪ Found as a baby in Darjeeling, she, too, is deaf.
▪ Higher education for the deaf receives the same lukewarm support.
▪ One such group is the deaf.
▪ That was another of Eunice Snell's theories, that he was a bit weak in the head and probably stone deaf too.
▪ Washington, that bastion of deaf ears and self-indulgent thinking, is actually trying to relate to the country it represents.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deaf

Deaf \Deaf\ (?; 277), v. t. To deafen. [Obs.]
--Dryden.

Deaf

Deaf \Deaf\ (d[e^]f or d[=e]f; 277), a. [OE. def, deaf, deef, AS. de['a]f; akin to D. doof, G. taub, Icel. daufr, Dan. d["o]v, Sw. d["o]f, Goth. daubs, and prob. to E. dumb (the original sense being, dull as applied to one of the senses), and perh. to Gr. tyflo`s (for qyflo`s) blind, ty^fos smoke, vapor, folly, and to G. toben to rage. Cf. Dumb.]

  1. Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.

    Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.
    --Shak.

  2. Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.

    O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
    --Shak.

  3. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.

    Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
    --Dryden.

  4. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.]

    A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
    --Dryden.

  5. Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

    If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught.
    --Holland.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deaf

Old English deaf "deaf," also "empty, barren," specialized from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (cognates: Old Saxon dof, Old Norse daufr, Old Frisian daf, Dutch doof "deaf," German taub, Gothic daufs "deaf, insensate"), from PIE dheubh-, which was used to form words meaning "confusion, stupefaction, dizziness" (cognates: Greek typhlos "blind," typhein "to make smoke;" Old English dumb "unable to speak;" Old High German tumb).\n

\nThe word was pronounced to rhyme with reef until 18c. Deaf-mute is from 1837, after French sourd-muet. Deaf-mutes were sought after in 18c.-19c. Britain as fortune-tellers. Deaf as an adder (Old English) is from Psalms lviii:5.

Wiktionary
deaf

a. Of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages.

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WordNet
deaf

n. people who have severe hearing impairments; "many of the deaf use sign language"

deaf

  1. adj. lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part [ant: hearing(a)]

  2. (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed; "deaf to her warnings" [syn: deaf(p), indifferent(p)]

deaf

v. make or render deaf; "a deafening noise" [syn: deafen]

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Wikipedia
Deaf (album)

Deaf, the debut album by J. G. Thirlwell's You've Got Foetus on Your Breath was released in 1981 on Thirlwell's own Self Immolation Records label. Thirsty Ear reissued the album as a CD in 1997 in the US. Deaf, along with its follow-up Ache, was recorded with an 8-track recorder.

Both releases were limited editions: only 2,000 copies of the LP and 4,000 copies of the CD were produced. The Deaf LP is Self Immolation #WOMB OYBL 1. The CD re-release is Ectopic Ents #ECT ENTS 012.

Deaf (disambiguation)

Deaf commonly refers to deafness.

Deaf can also refer to:

  • Deaf culture, a term applied associated with deaf people exhibiting of fine arts and humanities, high culture, integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior and set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group,
  • Deaf people are natives, inhabitants, or citizen of Deaf society and to people of Deaf descent, and
  • Deaf (album), the debut album from You've Got Foetus on Your Breath
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Usage examples of "deaf".

Now the Adar of the Ildiran Solar Navy was becoming blind and deaf to a comforting foundation he had always taken for granted.

The Adar felt as if he had gone deaf in his heart and mind, and he struggled to maintain his courage.

Bringing up the rear: a four-horned antelope that had been born with six horns, a baby one-horned rhinoceros, and a Bhalu, or honey bear, blind and deaf, but drawn by the scent of sweet things in the market.

Even the high priest, to whom in her extremity she might have turned for succour, would be deaf to her appeal, for he was bound by ties of blood to the house of Bharata Rahon and would be the willing and eager tool of his kinsman.

He now dabbled freely in the blackest arts just to see what would happen, his ears deaf to screams and pleas for mercy.

The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.

It was on its third quart-sized mug of Demerara Sours, and its sense cluster had been retracted for all of that time, leaving it deaf and blind, lost in its own thoughts.

Bebe was a red Doberman who had gradually gone deaf, perhaps as a result of being too close to a can of TNT thrown at a demolition exercise at Lejeune.

Karigan had spoken of Estral, saying that she was deaf in one ear from an accident, but still a fabulous musician.

Deaf to her pitiful pleadings, I placed myself in position to command her backside, raised the whip, and gave her a cut right across the fleshiest part.

The germinally blind and deaf will particularly occur to mind in the latter connection.

It is a sign of constitutional weakness, for the children of goitred parents are usually deaf and dumb, and the succeeding generation idiots.

Monitoring each other, in their masks and helmets, they were almost deaf to outside noises unless they deliberately amplified them.

She was blind, and deaf, and her senses of smell and taste and touch and proprioception vanished.

The chairman pleaded and argued, but, deaf to all entreaty, men plowed their way through the throng and rained checks of gold coin into the cart and skurried away for more.