Definition of "hear"

hear

/hɪə(ɹ)/

verb
third-person singular simple present hears, present participle hearing, simple past and past participle heard
1. (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
2. (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
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  Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
3. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
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  Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?
  1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], John ]
  It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
  1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
4. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
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  Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]
  1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
6. (with from) To be contacted by.
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  When I don't hear from you, My days feel long and lonely.
  2009, Elsa T. Aguries, The Pearl Within, page 141
  They're ten hours overdue. Have you heard from any of them since they left Nineveh?
  2012, Art Wiederhold, Charles Sutphen, From the Depths of Evil, page 343
  She left and I never heard from her again.
  2012, James Meredith, A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America
7. (transitive, law) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
8. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
9. (transitive, Greek philosophy) To study under.
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  SPHÆRUS was of Bosphorus, he first heard Zeno, then Cleanthes, and having made a sufficient progresse in learning, went to Alexandria to Ptolomy Philopater […]
  1656, Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy. The Eighth Part, Containing the Stoick Philosophers, page 15
  Ammonius, the teacher of both Simplicius and Philoponus, tells us how Julian gave a ruling […] in favor of Maximus, who had heard Iamblichus, and followed him and Porphyry (in An. Pr. 31,15–22).
  1990, Henry J. Blumenthal, “Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?”, in Richard Sorabji, editor, Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, 2nd edition, published 2016, pages 130–31
  Charmadas, never actually Head of School but a prominent Academic who had himself heard Carneades, was prepared to teach Plato’s Gorgias […]
  2018, “Introduction: The Old Academy to Cicero”, in Harold Tarrant et al., editors, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity, pages 24–25
interjection
1. you hear me
  Quotations
  Y'all come back now, hear?
  1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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