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| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Interjection. Source: Putting more emphasis on listen, . Definition: Trying to get someone's attention, used like hey but for a quicker reation. Context: Always starting out a sentance that is important. Person will use it when entering a room and wants to gain everyones attention, or if the conversation needs to be switched . Social Source: Arts and Communication High School Seniors and Juniors. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Listen! You smell something? (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) Then we just take it for ourselves! We-no listen! We can rule! (Red Planet; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer) Look Chandler, if this is going to work you have got to listen!!! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Okay! Listen! Everybody, listen! (Nash Bridges; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry) Salieri has been touched by God at last. And God is forced to listen!! Powerless, powerless to stop it! (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;) | |
Lyrics | You, you need to listen! (Losing Grip; performing artist: AVRIL LAVIGNE) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Members of the carrier's Ordnance Department pose with decorated 2000-pound bombs, during Korean War operations, 9 March 1951. Messages painted on the bombs are: "Greetings from PhilCee"; "Happy Easter"; and "Listen! To This One it will Kill you". Among the planes parked in the background are F4U-4Bs of Fighter Squadron 113 (VF-113). Credit: NAVY. |  | Listen, Mamma! she's singing it over -- the Spring Song -- listen!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Say! Listen!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Say, listen!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | What every wife knows. Wait! listen! keep yer shoulder down! down!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Listen! The storm also calls to us: Be daring!] [The nation's volunteer efforts for the redemption of the land - Jewish National Fund] / / [A. Alhanani ; A. Kaufman]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Listen! before thee, there was no creature worthy the name. |
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| Language | Translations for "LISTEN!"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | hallgasd csak! (just listen!), figyelj csak! (just listen!), figyelj csak ide! (just listen!). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | Eaisht! (Psht! Hark! Listen! Hush!). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | isten!lay escute!. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "!-e-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elints, enlist, inlets, listen, silent, tinsel. | |
-2 letters: elint, inlet, inset, islet, istle, lenis, liens, lines, lints, neist, nites, senti, stein, stile, tiles, tines. | |
-3 letters: isle, leis, lens, lent, lest, lets, lien, lies, line, lins, lint, list, lite, lits, nest, nets, nils, nite, nits, sent, silt, sine, site, slit, snit, tels, tens, ties, tile. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Images: Photo Album 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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