What does "hearing" mean?
Hearing: Note: Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimEar.
Additional senses
- 2.Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.
- 3.A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues. His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. Shak. Another hearing before some other court. Dryden. Note: Hearing, as applied to equity cases, means the same thing that the word trial does at law. Abbot.
- 4.Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. "She's not within hearing." Shak. They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. Tennyson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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