hearing
hearing is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 27 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Note: Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimEar.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is hearing.
- What is note: Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimEar called?
- What is attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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