Word Finder - hears

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(stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.

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I was deaf, and now I can hear.

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(stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.

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I heard a sound from outside the window.

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To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.

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To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).

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Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.

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To receive information about; to come to learn of.

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(with from) To be contacted by.

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To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.

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Your case will be heard at the end of the month.

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To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.

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You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.

Later, he hears his sister cry out upstairs!

This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense--a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one.

Howie thinks he hears movement outside at one point but sees nothing.

The general assembly reviews all the work of the Church; settles controversies; makes administrative laws; directs and stimulates missionary and other spiritual work; appoints professors of theology; admits to the ministry applicants from other churches; hears and decides complaints, references and appeals which have come up through the inferior courts; and takes cognizance of all matters connected with the Church's interests or with the general welfare of the people.

It has oversight of all the congregations within its bounds; hears references from kirk-sessions or appeals from individual members; sanctions the formation of new congregations; superintends the education of students for the ministry; stimulates and guides pastoral and evangelistic work; and exercises discipline over all within its bounds, including the ministers.

She converses with angels, sometimes even with the Lord, and both hears and see mysteries."

There are law, medical and engineering schools in the country, but one rarely hears of them.

As these " secondary waves " return to S their distance apart is nearly equal to twice the distance between the rails, and the observer then hears a note of wave-length nearly 2EF.

After sitting a while, she suddenly hears someone coming... a sleigh drives up with harness bells; she hears him coming!

But if an observer is stationed at S' the waves will be about half as far apart and will reach him with nearly twice the frequency, so that he hears a note about an octave higher.

But even there it does not find the Highest, the One; it still hears a voice saying, " not we have made ourselves."

The western slope of the Sierra Nevada hears fine forests similar to those of the Cascade Range and of the Coast Range, but of more open growth, and with the redwood exchanged for groves of big trees (Sequoia gigantea) of which the tallest examples reach 325 ft.

Personal tithes are now rare, except of fish caught at sea, when they are payable to the church where the taker hears divine service and receives the sacraments.

The words of the Imam are echoed in every heart, and every Moslem hears only the cry of the Faith..

One who feels pained or pleased, who feels hot or cold or resisting in touch, who tastes the flavoured, who smells the odorous, who hears the sounding, who sees the coloured, or is conscious, already believes that something sensible exists before conception, before inference, and before language; and his belief is true of the immediate object of sense, the sensible thing, e.g.

The dragon hears Beowulf's shout of defiance, and rushes forth, breathing flames.

But even so one hardly hears anything about state or court except great enterprises and anecdotes.

Another day he falls in with a decrepit old man, and stricken with dismay at the sight, renews his questions and hears for the first time of death.

A board of railway commissioners, which in 1907 succeeded a commissioner (whose office was created in 1873) hears complaints, has power to issue various orders and permits of minor importance to railway companies, and reports annually to the governor.

Besides the ordinary chancery jurisdiction it hears all applications for divorce or nullity of marriage.

In the former case he neglects the study of savage myths; in the latter he unconsciously accommodates what he hears to what he calls " the truth."

A curious fact, and one which has arisen since the 15th century, is the addition of a paragogic C to those infinitives which are accentedon the radical; in a portion of the Catalan domain one hears creurer, veurer.

Subsequently the perfect of the three conjugations has admitted forms in -r (anidres, amdrem, amdreu, amdren), derived from the ancient pluperfect amara, &c., which has held its ground down to the present day, with the meaning of a conditional in some verbs (one still hears fora, haguera).

The district judge hears the case and if satisfied makes the nisi order absolute.

In each book, the writer quickly befriends the " players " of the respective communities and hears the gossip.

The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice.

So now whenever she hears anyone coming, she justs carries on doing whatever she was doing, normally cleaning herself.

A real trumpet is actually played by an artificial embouchure, the visitor controls air pressure and the valves and hears the results.

Beside teddy hears, Susanna uses pigs. crocodiles, squirrels, rabbits and other creatures to portray human foibles.

In the first case, Smith hears some malicious gossip about the past career of Jones.

It depends on someone's accumulated inclinations how deeply he will consider what he hears.

An example would be a player with 11 points whose partner opens in third seat and hears a 1NT overcall on his right.

Did I mention the weathercock on Queen Camel church, which goes to drink for the river when it hears the clock strike twelve?

Now, she hears the shout of Bannockburn; and now, the long wail of Flodden.

Well, I fought along, and directly I hears the whoop behind me.

In his own home a man hears only worldly talk; the disease of worldliness has become chronic with him.

In popular usage "conscience" is generally understood to give intuitively authoritative decisions as regards the moral quality of single actions; this usage implicitly assumes that every action has an objective or intrinsic goodness or badness, which "conscience" may be said to discern much in the same way as the eye sees or the ear hears.

To appreciate it, we must distinguish the lower mythologic aspect of him, in which he appears as an amorous and capricious deity lacking often in dignity and real power, and the higher religious aspect, in which he is conceived as the All-Father, the Father of Gods and men in a spiritual or moral sense, as a God omnipotent in heaven and earth, the sea and the realms below, as a God of righteousness and justice and mercy, who regards the sanctity of the oath and hears the voice of the suppliant and sinner, and in whom the pious and the lowly trust.

The time that one of Miss Keller's friends realizes most strongly that she is blind is when he comes on her suddenly in the dark and hears the rustle of her fingers across the page.

He hears others speak, and he tried to speak.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.

While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh--a laugh such as one hears on the stage.

It depends on what you hear; hammering and knocking--that's bad; but a sound of shifting grain is good and one sometimes hears that, too.

What will Nicholas, dear noble Nicholas, do when he hears of it?

He 's also a sucker for the sob stories he hears helping out at his local legal advice center pro bono !

Thus, on hearing children in the vicarage garden playing on a swing, he hears them calling My turn next !

As she hears your words, she is learning different sounds, and as she grows and develops, she'll try to copy those sounds.

A newborn is learning from everything he sees, hears, touches, and even tastes.