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Hearing   /hˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Hearing

noun
1.
(law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence.
2.
An opportunity to state your case and be heard.  Synonym: audience.  "He saw that he had lost his audience"
3.
The range within which a voice can be heard.  Synonyms: earreach, earshot.
4.
The act of hearing attentively.  Synonym: listening.  "They make good music--you should give them a hearing"
5.
A session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken.
6.
The ability to hear; the auditory faculty.  Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing.
adjective
1.
Able to perceive sound.  Antonym: deaf.


Hear

verb
(past & past part. heard; pres. part. hearing)
1.
Perceive (sound) via the auditory sense.
2.
Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.  Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, pick up, see.  "I see that you have been promoted"
3.
Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process.  Synonym: try.  "The case will be tried in California"
4.
Receive a communication from someone.
5.
Listen and pay attention.  Synonyms: listen, take heed.  "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"



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"Hearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... On hearing this a severe conflict ensued in the Collector's mind between his antiquarian conscience and his antiquarian longing. He pouted his lips and tapped with his fingers about the spot where he had concealed the bone from the battlefield of Teutoburg. Evidently he was striving to subdue the ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... said, without turning. "I don't want company." Hearing no answer, he began again, "I came here to be alone"—but there he ceased, for the girl had come forward and laid her two hot hands ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach
... Wayne that, still absorbed by her own convictions, she did not notice the insult of hearing ladies and gentlemen described to her as if they were beings wholly alien to her experience; but the tone of his speech startled her, and she woke, like a person coming out of a trance, to all the harm she ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller
... petitioners ware frie natives, members of a royall borrow, whosse priviledges ought not lightly to be reversed, else malcontents would thairon take occasion of grudge, and of sowing fears and jealousies betuixt his Majestie and his people. At the hearing of which my Lord Commissioner,[616] guessing the author, began to baule and foame, and scrued up the cryme to such a height as that it deserved emprisonment, deprivation, and a most severe reprimande. At last the ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder
... to his wife. "Now whatever the animals are, we'll have them killed." He added quietly once the youngsters were out of hearing, "Come, come. The children aren't hurt and, after all, they haven't done anything really terrible. They've just found ...
— Youth • Isaac Asimov


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