Hear

Definition: Hear

Hear

Verb

1. Perceive sound; perceive by the auditory sense.

2. Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted".

3. Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California".

4. Receive a communication from someone: "We heard nothing from our son for five years".

5. Listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

HEAR

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Hear

Approbation

Interjection: hear hear! bully for you! well done! bravo! bravissimo! euge! macte virtute! so far so good, that's right, quite right; optime! one cheer more; may your shadow never be less! esto perpetua! long life to! viva! enviva! Godspeed! valete et plaudite! encore! bis!

Attention

Examine, examine closely, examine intently; scan, scrutinize, consider; give one's mind to, bend one's mind to; overhaul, revise, pore over; inspect, review, pass under review; take stock of; fix the eye on, rivet attention on, fix attention on, devote the eye to, fix the mind on, devote the thoughts to; hear out, think out; mind one's business.

Attention! Now hear this! Oyez!; Achtung;

Information

Be informed of; know; learn; get scent of, get wind of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand.

Judgment

Hold the scales, sit in judgment; try judgment, hear a cause.

Lawsuit

Try, hear a cause; sit in judgment; adjudicate.

Neglect

Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.

Obedience

Phrase: to hear is to obey; as you please, if you please; your wish is my command; as you wish; no sooner said than done.

Refusal

Be deaf to; dismiss, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon; set one's face against, discountenance, not hear of, have nothing to do with, wash one's hands of, stand aloof, forswear, set aside, cast behind one; not yield an inch; (obstinacy).

Adjective: refusing; Verb: restive, restiff; recusant; uncomplying, unconsenting; not willing to hear of, deaf to.

Repetition

Rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

Rite

Verb: perform service, do duty, minister, officiate, baptize, dip, sprinkle; anoint, confirm, lay hands on; give the sacrament, administer the sacrament; administer extreme unction; hear confession, administer holy penance, shrive; excommunicate, ban with bell book and candle.

Attend services, attend mass, go to mass, hear mass; take the sacrament, receive the sacrament, receive communion, attend the sacrament, partake of the sacrament, partake of communion; communicate; receive extreme unction; confess, go to confession, receive penance; anele.

Weariness

Never hear the last of; be tired of, be sick of, be tired with; Adjective: yawn; die with ennui.

Crosswords: Hear

Frisian (army, gentleman, lord, Mr.), Pidgin English (heard, to understand).

Hear what (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Then I'll write a song and we'll put it in the show and whenever you sing it or hear it. Or whistle or hum it then you'll know (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Well, did you hear that (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

Oh, you're going to New York and then some day we'll all hear of you, won't we (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Hear me roar (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

Until I hear it from you (TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat (Can't You Hear My Heartbeat; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

Then suddenly, I hear a symphony (I Hear A Symphony; performing artist: The Supremes)

We gotta talk about everything you hear (Playas Gon' Play; performing artist: 3LW)

Did you ever hear of a clown with teardrops (Pop A Top; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. (references; author: Mark Twain)

To truly hear, you must quiet the mind. (references; author: unknown)

I can still hear the song of your laughter. (references; author: unknown)

When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell her so. (references; author: unknown)

Your actions speak so loud that I can't hear what you're saying. (references; author: unknown)

The Next Scream You Hear (1974)

Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound? (1971)

The Last Shot You Hear (1969)

Let Me Hear You Whisper (1969)

Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968)

Til I Hear It From You (performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Can't You Hear My Heartbeat (performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

You Should Hear How She Talks About You (performing artist: Melissa Manchester)

I Hear A Symphony (performing artist: The Supremes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move (Aladdin Picture Books) (reference)

• Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur (reference)

• Into the Depths of God: Where Eyes See the Invisible, Ears Hear the Inaudible and Minds Conceive the Inconceivable (reference)

• Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs) (reference)

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hear Ye Hear Ye (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? - The Life and Music of Robert Johnson (reference)

• See No Evil, Hear No Evil (reference)

• Hear My Song (reference)

• One Foot in the Grave: In Luton Airport No One Can Hear You Scream (reference)

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Can You Hear Me (reference)

• Do You Hear What I Hear (reference)

• Rockin With Kay: I Hear the Word (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• NOW HEAR THIS SB1 Two-Way Bookshelf Speakers ? Black (Pair) (reference)

• NOW HEAR THIS SB3 Two-Way Bookshelf Speaker ? Black (reference)

• Ivista Hear And See Me Now (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Flash and sound ranging survey as practiced by Charles Wilkes Shoot cannon - see flash - measure time till hear sound - determine distance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

They Who Have Ears To Hear, Let Them Hear. / Tim Bobbin [i.e. John Collier] inv. et del. T. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The place we hear about. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Vot's dot noise I hear"?. Credit: Library of Congress.

I can't hear his heart beat. Credit: Library of Congress.

'...But first, let's hear your position on the Alaska pipeline and independent gas distributors!' / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crowd of Puerto Ricans gather to hear former Secretary of State Henry A. Wallace speak. Credit: Library of Congress.

Training high school boys to identify planes. If he makes the right contact, this student of Newark's Weequahic High School will hear a loud "buzz." Matching plane names with silhouettes is part of the aviation course offered young people at this school. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lumber manufacture. Boise Payette Lumber Company, Boise, Idaho. On this hear rig (leg carriage) the logs are sliced down to Ponderosa pine boards, many of which are being used for defense construction. Credit: Library of Congress.

Buster Brown. "Pull, Tige, I hear Mamma coming". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This, those who give their votes before they hear the debate, and have weighed the reasons on all sides, are not capable of doing. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Court shall be competent to hear and determine any dispute of an international character which the parties thereto submit to it. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But it is very remarkable that she should always hear Jane better than she does me.

She neither looked at him nor seemed to hear him.

Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly

But the mother did not seem to hear it.

I walk very softly that you may not hear, for perhaps you would be afraid

He desired with all his will not to hear or see.

My hair doth stand an end to hear her curses

Hear her a mile

I begged his patience to hear me tell my story, which I faithfully did from the last time I left England to the moment he first discovered me.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

When I hear “menopause,” I think “hot flashes. (references)

You will not hear, see, or smell the radiation. (references)

The child seems to hear sometimes, but not others. (references)

Business

The tendering and award process is postponed upon the chamber's decision to hear a plaintiff's claim. (references)

It also has jurisdiction to hear and decide claims based on the infringement of a person's basic constitutional rights by a public authority. (references)

From the desktop PC, a person in at raining group can push a button and ask a question and the whole network will hear the live response from the instructor. (references)

Children

Ethiopia

Three federal judges sit on one bench to hear all cases of juvenile offenses. (references)

Malaysia

Some judges and others have recommended that the Evidence Act be amended to accept the testimony of children and that courts implement special procedures to hear the testimony of children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Jordan

These individuals must request one of the recognized courts to hear their personal status cases. (references)

Economic History

Cape Verde

Separate courts hear civil, constitutional and criminal cases. (references)

Indonesia

Indonesians often hear news about the increasing number of crimes. (references)

Croatia

Panels consisting of judges plus lay assessors (experts) hear cases. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Both hear civil and criminal cases. (references)

Oman

Panels of three judges hear appeals cases. (references)

South Africa

Judges and magistrates hear criminal cases. (references)

Indigenous People

New Zealand

A special tribunal continues to hear Maori tribal claims to land and other natural resources stemming from the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. (references)

India

Special courts to hear complaints of atrocities committed against tribal people were to have been established under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, but this never was accomplished. (references)

Minorities

Cote d'Ivoire

Some non-Muslims also object to having to hear the muezzins' calls to prayer. (references)

Political Economy

Liberia

Juvenile courts were established by law in 1998, but most counties are lacking personnel or facilities to hear cases. (references)

Costa Rica

The Sala IV takes a broad and activist view of constitutional rights, including rights to property, and routinely agrees to hear contract disputes. (references)

Tanzania

The Government approved a bill to establish a Human Rights Commission; however, the Commission was not established until late in the year, and it did not hear any cases by year's end. (references)

Political Rights

Belgium

The district court held that it was not competent to hear the case. (references)

Travel

Singapore

Judges hear cases and decide sentencing. (references)

Bulgaria

Travelers may hear recorded information by calling the Department at (202) 647-5225 from a touch tone telephone, or receive information by automated fax by dialing (202) 647-3000. (references)

Worker Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Courts hear labor disputes. (references)

Guinea

In the interior, civil courts hear labor cases. (references)

Thailand

Courts continued to hear testimony in the case of the 1993 Kader Toy Factory fire. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Whom the Lord will hear

Expressions using "hear": better to hear ♦ cause to hear ♦ dawn picnic to hear first birdsong ♦ he does not hear ♦ he won't hear of it ♦ hear a case ♦ hear a cause ♦ hear about ♦ hear evidence ♦ hear from ♦ hear from smb. ♦ Hear him ♦ hear of ♦ hear off ♦ hear out ♦ hear smb. out ♦ hear smb.'s confession ♦ hear smth. with one's own ears ♦ hear the grass grow ♦ hear the news ♦ hear wrong ♦ hear wrongly ♦ i am gratified to hear ♦ i am pleased to hear it! ♦ i hear a ring at the door ♦ i hear that ♦ i rejoice to hear it ♦ Interjection: hear hear! bully for you! well done! bravo! bravissimo! euge! macte virtute! so far so good ♦ let us hear each other again! ♦ not hear ♦ not willing to hear of ♦ one can hear ♦ seem to hear voice ♦ they hear me ♦ To hear a bird sing ♦ To hear ill ♦ To hear say ♦ To hear well ♦ well! did you ever hear such a thing?. Additional references.

Beginning with "hear": hear-hears, hear-how, Hear-it, hear-say, hear-shaped, hear-streak, hear-ted.

Ending with "hear": re-hear.

Containing "hear": i'll-pretend-i-didn't-hear-that, let's-hear-it-for-galilee-purify-your-heart, see-all-hear-all-say-nowt.

Afrikaans

hoor (find, find out, learn, learn of). (various references)

Albanian

dëgjoj (auscultate, hark, listen, reach smb.'s ears). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏سمع الدعوى, ‏سمع (discern, ears, hearing, sing out, sound, strike), ‏علم من طريق السماع, ‏أصغى (attend, hark, hearken, listen, listen to smb., monitor, pay attention, prick up one's ears, strain). (various references)

Basque

entzun (hear to). (various references)

Blackfoot

yoohtsimi (to hear). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слушам (attend, hark, listen, listen to, obey, pay attention), разглеждам (analyse, analyze, bolt, canvass, consider, do, eye, handle, look through, oversee, regard, scan, see, see into, see over, take up, treat, view), чувам (lend an ear, pick up, understand), научавам (acquire, learn, pick up, read up, teach, understand), изслушвам, дочувам (overhear). (various references)

Catalan

sentir. (various references)

Cebuano

mamati (to hear). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma hungok (to hear). (various references)

Chinese 

聞 (sniff at), 聽見 , 聽取 (listen to), 聽 (allow, let, listen, obey), 聆 (apprehend, listen), 听见 (heard). (various references)

Cornish

clewes (to hear). (various references)

Czech

slyšet. (various references)

Danish

høre (find out, learn of). (various references)

Dutch

horen (be fitting, befit, find out, have to, learn of, must, ought to, should), verstaan (realize, understand), vernemen (find, find out, learn of, notice, perceive). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

uyana (to hear). (various references)

Esperanto

sciiĝi (find out, learn of), aŭdi. (various references)

Faeroese

hoyra (examine), fáa at vita (find out, learn of). (various references)

Farsi 

پذیرفتن (Accept, Admit, Allow, Embrace, Listen, Matriculate, Receive, Vouchsafe), گوش کردن , گوش دادن به (Hearken), سعی کردن (Try), خبرداشتن , استماع کردن (Hark, Hearken, Listen), اطاعت کردن (Obey), شنیدن (Listen), درک کردن (Appreciate, Apprehend, Catch, Cognize, Compass, Comprehend, Coneive, Follow, Induct, Perceive, Realize, Savvy, Seize, Understand). (various references)

Finnish

kuulla (be told, learn). (various references)

French

entendre. (various references)

Frisian

hearre (to hear). (various references)

German

hören (hark, hearing, learn, listen, listen to, listening, pay attention, to hear), vernehmen (examine, find out, learn, learn of, question), erfahren (accomplished, adept, adeptly, experience, experienced, expert, find out, learn, learn of, learned, learnt, practiced, proficient, receive, seasoned, skilfull, skillfull, sophisticated, suffer, to adept, undergo, versatile). (various references)

Greek 

ακούω (listen). (various references)

Hawaiian

dëgjoj (listen). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשמוע (attend, hearken, listen, pay heed), להקשיב (attend, hark, listen, monitor, pay attention), להאזין (hearken, heed, listen, monitor). (various references)

Hungarian

hall (foyer, hall, hallway, heard, lounge, main lounge, to hear, to list). (various references)

Icelandic

heyra. (various references)

Indonesian

mengadili (administer justice, bring to justice), mendengar (listen, noted), dengar. (various references)

Inuktitut

tusaqtuq (to hear). (various references)

Irish

cluin, clois. (various references)

Italian

udire. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "pu", heal, heap, hearing, heat, heat pipe, heat pump, heater, heel, heel out, hero, hero package, hymen, interview, listening comprehension, public hearing), 拝聞 (listen to), 拝承 (be informed, learn, understand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヒア , はいしょう (be informed, defeated general, learn, understand), はいぶん (allotment, distribution, listen to, prose with a poetic haiku flavor). (various references)

Kongo

ku-wa (to hear). (various references)

Korean 

들으십시요 (listen). (various references)

Macedonian

slusha (to hear). (various references)

Manx

eaishtagh (attentive, confess, harken, hearken, listen, listen in, sound), clashtyn (hearing, sit), clasht. (various references)

Maya

u'ub (to hear). (various references)

Norwegian

høre (listen). (various references)

Occitan

ausir. (various references)

Papago

kaiham (to hear). (various references)

Papiamen

tende. (various references)

Pig Latin

earhay.(various references)

Polish

słyszeć. (various references)

Portuguese

ouvir (audition, hark, harken, listen, to hear). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

ouvir (to hear). (various references)

Provencal

ausir (to hear). (various references)

Quechua

uyariyki (I hear you). (various references)

Romanian

auzi (fancy, just fancy). (various references)

Romansch

dudir (to hear). (various references)

Romany

shoonàv (to hear). (various references)

Russian 

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