Crossword clues for listening
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
listening \listening\ n. the act of hearing attentively.
Syn: hearing.
Wiktionary
1 Of something or someone that listens. 2 Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 3 Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. n. Action of the verb '''listening''' v
(present participle of listen English)
WordNet
adj. attending to or alert for sound; "be wary of listening ears"; "government-maintained listening posts"
n. the act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing" [syn: hearing]
Wikipedia
Listening is a broad term used to refer to complex affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes. Affective processes include the motivation to attend to others; cognitive processes include attending to, understanding, receiving, and interpreting content and relational messages; and behavioral processes include responding with verbal and nonverbal feedback.
Listening differs from obeying. Parents may commonly conflate the two, by telling a disobedient child that he "didn't listen to me". A person who receives and understands information or an instruction, and then chooses not to comply with it or to agree to it, has listened to the speaker, even though the result is not what the speaker wanted.
Listening is the conscious processing of the auditory stimuli that have been perceived through hearing.
Listening and The Listening may also refer to:
- Listening (film), 2003 short film
- Listening (band), an American psychedelic rock band from Boston
- The Listening (band), an American rock band from Washington state
- The Listening (Lights album)
- The Listening (Little Brother album)
- ''The Listening (2006 film), based on NSA mass surveillance.
Listening is a 2003 short film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Frances Barber and Paul McGann. The film won Best Director, Short Film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and was fourth runner-up for Best Short Film at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Listening was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts which was active in the late 1960s. They became the leading Boston stage act in 1968, and seemed to epitomize what is now called the Bosstown Sound. The band released one self-titled album on the Vanguard label and one non-LP promo single. The group is famous for its ambiguous song lyrics, sometimes related to marijuana and psychedelic acid trips.
Usage examples of "listening".
Lily attempted to regain her ability to breathe, listening to the next song, a slow, moody number.
I was sitting there listening to her go on about abortion, I casually made an off-mike comment to my call screener that I wished I could abort this call.
The entire county could be listening in, but too much time had passed and Banish needed to talk to Abies now.
David and Deborah his manner remained always the same, jestingly ironic, scornfully loquacious, lovingly friendly of a sudden, then for a day, two days, a week utterly silent, while his eyes roved, his ears were acock listening for a step.
I soaked it up like a sponge, listening eagerly to the advice of adoptive parents, their grown children, clinical psychologists, advocates, social workers, and adoption resource professionals.
After listening, however, to the affectionate remonstrances of the faculty and board of trustees, who well knew the value of his wisdom in the supervision of the college and the power of his mere presence and example upon the students, he resumed his labours with the resolution to remain at his post and carry forward the great work he had so auspiciously begun.
The old man appeared to be listening attentively and as affectionately as his infirmities would allow to the Abbe Busoni, who looked cold and calm, as usual.
This made Raymo a figure of respect among his fellow prisoners during the twenty months they would spend in the fortress of La Cabana listening to rifle reports from the moat, where the executions took place, each crisp volley followed by a precise echo, an afterclap, as the prisoners thought about the dog that lived in the moat, lapping up blood.
Listening to him, Aganippe could hardly believe Mother Apia would saddle her with this ox-sized oaf.
She described seeing the bier of King Agates Sealender and listening in on the conversation between the castellan and the priest.
Kamposea Agora, several times, bringing her to worship at the Cmiral, spending an entire afternoon with her in the Temple of Xothei, laughing as she marveled at its great dome and listening as she explained how the Ceneians had built it in near antiquity.
As I lay thus holding her hand, and listening to her quiet breathing, I realised once more what my young Alastor had meant by the purity of high passion.
He made twisting motions to get the idea across to Alb, but the young man just stood there stupidly, no doubt listening to the gibes of his own circle of friends.
After a marathon twenty-four hour session, utilising studios One, Two and Three as well as listening rooms 41 and 42, the huge double album was finally mixed and sequenced at 5 p.
Scala, and Castelletti stood beside the blue Alfa, watching the smoke and listening to the sirens, like most all of Rome.