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Synonym: Listen InSynonym: eavesdrop (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Listen In |
| English words defined with "listen in": genuinely ♦ hark, harken, hearken ♦ incline ♦ Rastafari, Rastas, really ♦ To listen after, truly, turn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "listen in": ASSEMBLY TECHNICIAN, Azrael ♦ control-S ♦ emo ♦ Gallio ♦ Jemmy Dawson ♦ NSA line eater ♦ Poetic Terms ♦ Social pressure ♦ token bus, token ring ♦ Wandering Wood. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I don't mean to listen in (But For The Grace Of God; performing artist: Keith Urban) | |
Clever | A person who can speak many languages is not necessarily more valuable than a person who can listen in one. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | I won't listen in silence to the profanity of that old heathen.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Morty [Marty?] Gross using Western Electric headset to listen in on Man in the Moon stories, Ritz Apartments, Newark, N.J.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Robert Bresson | Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | We will strive to listen in new ways--to the voices of quiet anguish, the voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart--to the injured voices, the anxious voices, the voices that have despaired of being heard. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "listen in": listen in on ♦ listen in to. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "listen in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përgjoj bisedën, dëgjoj radion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تصنت (monitor, tap), إسترق السمع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слушам радиопредаване, подслушвам телефонен разговор (intercept). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | poslouchat rozhlas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afluisteren (bug, eavesdrop, monitor, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kaŝaŭskulti (bug, eavesdrop, monitor, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | écouter qch secrètement, écouter (listen, listen to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ôfharkje (bug, eavesdrop, monitor, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zuhören (eavesdrop, listen, listen to, to listen), mithören (attend, listen, listen to, monitor, overhear), im radio hören (to hear on the radio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακούω κρυφά, ακούω μέσα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לצותת (bug, eavesdrop, tap, tap the wires). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lehallgat (listen, play back, to bug, to intercept, to milk, to monitor, to play back), meghallgat (auscultate, heard, to audition, to grant, to hear, to lend an ear, to list), kihallgat (eavesdrop, interrogate, overhear, overheard, to debrief, to grill, to interrogate, to overhear, to question), hallgat (hold one's peace, listen, to clam up, to hearken, to hush, to keep quiet, to list, to listen, to observe silence, to play dead, to play possum, to say nothing, to shut the mouth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | origliare (bug, eavesdrop, monitor, overhear, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheegeragh (prying, spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istenlay inay intercepta o convorbire, fi pe recepţie, asculta radio. (various references) слушать радио. (various references) slušati emisiju, prisluškivati (eavesdrop, monitor, tap), osluškivati (sound). (various references) escuchar a hurtadillas, escuchar (answer, hang on, harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen, listen to, monitor, pay attention to, play back). (various references) lyssna på (attend to, lend an ear, listen in to, listen to), tjuvlyssna (eavesdrop, listen in on, listen in to), höra på (listen, listen in to, listen to), avlyssna (listen in on, listen in to, listen to, wire tap). (various references) ตั้งใจฟัง (การสนทนา), ตั้งใจฟัง. (various references) telefonunu dinlemek, telefon dinlemek (wire tap), radyo dinlemek (listen in to). (various references) слухати радіопередачу, підслуховувати (eavesdrop, overhear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Listen In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: listenin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: intines, liniest, linnets. | |
-2 letters: elints, enlist, inlets, instil, intine, linens, linins, linnet, listen, seniti, sennit, sileni, silent, tennis, tinsel. | |
-3 letters: elint, inlet, inset, intis, islet, istle, lenis, liens, linen, lines, linin, linns, lints, neist, nines, nisei, nites, senti, stein, stile, tiles, tines. | |
-4 letters: inns, inti, isle, leis, lens, lent, lest, lets, lien, lies, line. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: enlisting, lenitions, liniments, listening, tinseling. | |
+2 letters: anticlines, flintiness, glistening, interlines, interlinks, intestinal, lentigines, lineations, stenciling, tinselling, triennials. | |
+3 letters: alienations, annihilates, centillions, incidentals, inessential, inflections, initialness, insertional, insistently, instillment, intangibles, intensional, intensively, interisland, interliners, internalise, liltingness, linecasting, nationalise, reenlisting, saintliness, sentineling, splintering, stencilling, ungainliest, unkindliest, vinblastine. | |
+4 letters: anilinctuses, antinovelist, centralising, declinations, delineations, desalinating, desalination, disentailing, disentitling, eliminations, flintinesses, franklinites, geanticlines, inessentials, infantilizes, influentials, instillments, interleukins, interlinears, interlinings, intermingles, internalised, internalises, internalizes, intestinally, knightliness, langbeinites, linecastings, militantness, misalignment, multiengines, nationalised, nationalises, nationalizes, nephelinites, neutralising, nightingales, nonrealistic, nonutilities, omnisciently, reinflations, reinstalling, sentinelling, streamlining, untimeliness, ventilations, vinblastines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 73 74 65 6E 49 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01001001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i s t e n   I n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0073 0074 0065 006E 0049 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46758586718024380 |
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