Definition of hearing

"hearing" in the noun sense

1. hearing

law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence

2. hearing, audience

an opportunity to state your case and be heard

"they condemned him without a hearing"

"he saw that he had lost his audience"

3. earshot, earreach, hearing

the range within which a voice can be heard

"the children were told to stay within earshot"

4. listening, hearing

the act of hearing attentively

"you can learn a lot by just listening"

"they make good music

5. hearing

a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken

"the investigative committee will hold hearings in Chicago"

6. hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality

the ability to hear the auditory faculty

"his hearing was impaired"

"hearing" in the verb sense

1. hear

perceive (sound) via the auditory sense

2. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, 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"

3. hear, 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"

4. hear

receive a communication from someone

"We heard nothing from our son for five years"

5. listen, hear, take heed

listen and pay attention

"Listen to your father"

"We must hear the expert before we make a decision"

"hearing" in the adjective sense

1. hearing

able to perceive sound

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Quotations for hearing

Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke and it came out to hear. [ George MacDonald ]

The hearing ear and the seeing eye. [ Bible ]

Where more is meant than meets the ear. [ Milton ]

Let the other side also have a hearing. [ Seneca ]

None so deaf as those that will not hear. [ Mathew Henry ]

Length of saying makes languor of hearing. [ J. Roux ]

Be silent, or speak something worth hearing. [ Proverb ]

I was all ear.
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death. [ Milton ]

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For even the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. [ Sir John Davies ]

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. [ William Shakespeare ]

Within a bony, labyrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and mystic sense is found,
Muse, that presides over all the powers of sound. [ Abraham Coles ]

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance. [ Proverb ]

These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]

Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. [ Jean Paul ]

I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

In vain is the mill-clack if the miller his hearing lack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not a mere hearing one. [ Carlyle ]

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well. [ Alexander the Great ]

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. [ Hannah More ]

Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

Almost all my tragedies were sketched in my mind, either in the act of hearing music or a few hours after. [ Alfieri ]

We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. [ Emerson ]

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority - demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice - comes graceful and beloved as a bride. [ Emerson ]

hearing in Scrabble®

The word hearing is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters hearing:

HEARING
(95 = 45 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

hearing

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word hearing

HEARING
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HEARING
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HEARING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In hearing

HEARING
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HEARING
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HEARING
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HEARING
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hearing in Words With Friends™

The word hearing is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters hearing:

HEARING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HEARING
(95 = 60 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

hearing

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word hearing

HEARING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HEARING
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HEARING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In hearing

HEARING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HEARING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HEARING
(89 = 54 + 35)
HEARING
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Words containing the sequence hearing

Words that start with hearing (2 words)

Words with hearing in them (3 words)

Word Growth involving hearing

Shorter words in hearing

ar ear hear

he hear

in ring

Longer words containing hearing

hearings rehearings

hearings sheepshearings

overhearing

rehearing rehearings

shearing mishearing

shearing sheepshearing sheepshearings

unhearing