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hear English

Meaning hear meaning

What does hear mean?
Definitions in simple English

hear Verb

— If you hear a sound, you notice it with your ear. I heard music coming from the next room. Speak louder, I cannot hear you!

hear

— verb perceive (sound) via the auditory sense — verb (= learn, see) 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 — verb (= try) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process The jury had heard all the evidence The case will be tried in California — verb receive a communication from someone We heard nothing from our son for five years — verb (= listen) listen and pay attention Listen to your father We must hear the expert before we make a decision

Synonyms hear synonyms

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hear English » English

listen understand listen to feel obey learn try know smell see find out catch attend sense read perceive pay attention harken give ear discover detect be attentive taste take heed rumor remember realize pick up notice mind listen in inform heed hearken hearing heard hear of hark get word get wind get a line get ear convey comprehend clear cause to hear be told be informed audible

Topics hear topics

What do people use hear to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive

Hear
Person Body Head

Ear

  • What do the ears do?
    hear
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Listen
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Quiet
Language and thought Want Influence

Insist
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Prompters of attention

Conjugation hear conjugation

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hear · verb

Examples hear examples

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Simple sentences

Most people only want to hear their own truth.
I hope it won't be long before I hear from her.
I hear music.
Speak louder so everyone can hear you.
Tommy, can you hear me?
I would like to hear your honest opinion.
I am happy to hear your voice.
I am very pleased to hear of your success.
Because of his age, my grandfather doesn't hear well.
I can hear a cat scratching at the window.
I'm glad to hear that she is unmarried.
I hear she is going to get married next month.
I closed the door so that they wouldn't hear us.
He would be glad to hear that.
I don't want to hear any more of your complaining.
The rooms in this hotel are really very bad at muffling sounds. I can hear my neighbor chewing his gum!
Did you hear about the fire yesterday?
Did you ever hear the like of it?
I can hardly hear you.
I can hear you, but I can't see you.
I was glad to hear of your success.
Didn't you hear your name called?

Movie subtitles

Master Kirihara! Did I hear correctly that you were promised a position. in the special zone involving the Sakuradite mining rights?
Well, good luck in Africa, boys! I've never been, But I hear it's a HOOT!
We hear other things.
Will I be able to even hear it ring?
Am I able to hear?
But to the person I was back then, why, could I see ghosts that others couldn't see or hear?
Just. Just hear me out.
You know, maybe he doesn't see her, maybe he doesn't hear her, but if he feels her, if he senses that she's here.
Oh, nice to hear.
I know you don't want to hear about this.
I am very sorry to hear that, but I. was not involved.
He's calling to hear Rie's voice on the outgoing message.
Anyone hear me talking?
Oh, I didn't hear it.
I hear he's a loyal fellow.
I hear she's an orphan.
I hear Leila and her children are there.
Didn't see or hear anything.
May God hear you. and inspire him truth and justice.
Did you hear me? With a special rate for friends.
If you don't mind, I'd like to hear more about him in detail.
Well, I didn't hear anything.
Hey, can you hear me?
What I am about to tell you is not going to be easy to hear.
Yes, you are correct. Did you hear about us from the others?
I can hear it.
They'll hear us.
You hear that everyone?
I can hear.
I can't hear you Rachel, say that again.
You hear that?
Do you want to hear me say sorry?
I always hear knocking sounds on the walls every night.
What did you hear?
HOLD ON. YOU KNOW HE CAN'T HEAR YOU, RIGHT? YES.
NO, NO! NEED TO HEAR ABOUT -- HEY!
YOU HEAR ME? SHE'S WORRIED ABOUT YOU.

News and current affairs

It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin - and created the ongoing mess.
And it is still common to hear autocratic leaders who inherited parts of the Western empires claim that democracy is all well and good, but the people are not yet ready for it.
Such language is as extreme as any we hear today - and from a man who was shortly to become Vice President (and later President, following the assassination of William McKinley).
I am writing you in the hope that you will take time from your busy schedule as Israel's acting Prime Minister to hear one Palestinian's hopes.
Our politicians were happy to hear that they should love each other, though when Pope left they started to quarrel about the meaning of love.
But I remain hopeful that we will prevail in the end, when higher courts hear Tempo's appeal.
They don't need to read or hear about the Falun Gong and human rights to make sound investment or purchasing decisions.
We often hear about hard power (military) and soft power (the attractiveness of a country's ideas, culture, economic system, and so forth).
We hear talk of new banking regulations and even of a new global financial architecture.
We hear voices now who are exasperated by the EU's enlargement and the social tensions it provoked.
Rating agencies and shareholders are nervous when they hear that a stricter regulatory environment is not necessarily a disadvantage.
Hardly a day goes by on which we do not hear of a government minister somewhere resigning his or her office.
Our top-ranked solutions were in areas that we don't hear much about.
COPENHAGEN - We often hear how the world as we know it will end, usually through ecological collapse.
WASHINGTON, DC - It is graduation season in many countries, a time when classes of bright and fortunate young people don their caps and gowns, receive their diplomas, and hear advice from their elders.
It, too, conducted an official inquiry, establishing the Macmillan Committee to hear evidence about how poorly British banks served British industry, and how the German model did a much better job at converting savings into industrial finance.
There is a speech that we still need to hear, detailing five tasks that, in order to repair the damage to liberty caused by the previous administration, he must pursue as quickly as he handled the first two executive orders.
One of the hardest things in central banking is that investors often hear a very different message from that which the central bank intends to send.
Google has become a de facto gatekeeper of information, to the extent that if your site is not highly ranked by Google, you are like the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.
But international trade and finance have both revived, and now we hear an even more ambitious version of the scenario.
But people can choose to avoid speech that others will hear as blasphemy.
It may be painful for many Americans to hear, and it will not impress my opponents.
My method is based largely on the observation that you rarely hear of a poor bookie.
MANILA - To hear some pundits tell it, China's economic miracle - one that lifted 300 million people out of poverty and shifted the world's geopolitical center of gravity - is coming to a tumultuous end.
I can already hear the sound of lawyers sharpening their pencils: the offense must be defined specifically enough to withstand a human-rights challenge.
More worrisome is the adoption of the same reasoning by those who hear Armstrong's story.

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