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Webster 1913 Edition

Hearing

Hear′ing

,
Noun.
1.
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived;
as, my
hearing
is good
.
I have heard of thee by the
hearing
of the ear.
Job xlii. 5.
☞ Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimulation of the auditory nerve; the stimulus (waves of sound) acting not directly on the nerve, but through the medium of the endolymph on the delicate epithelium cells, constituting the peripheral terminations of the nerve. See
Ear
.
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
.
Shakespeare
Another
hearing
before some other court.
Dryden.
☞ 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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hearing

HE'ARING

,
ppr.
Perceiving by the ear, as sound.
1.
Listening to; attending to; obeying; observing what is commanded.
2.
Attending to witnesses or advocates in a judicial trial; trying.

HE'ARING

,
Noun.
The faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
1.
Audience; attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard. I waited on the minister, but could not obtain a hearing.
2.
Judicial trial; attention to the facts, testimony and arguments in a cause between parties, with a view to a just decision.
3.
The act of perceiving sounds; sensation or perception of sound.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job.42.
And to the others he said in my hearing. Ezek.9.
4.
Reach of the ear; extent within which sound may be heard. He was not within hearing.

Definition 2024

hearing

hearing

English

Adjective

hearing ‎(comparative more hearing, superlative most hearing)

  1. Able to hear.
    Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.

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Noun

hearing ‎(countable and uncountable, plural hearings)

  1. (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
    My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.‎
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
      When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
  2. (countable) The act by which something is heard.
    • 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
      To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
  3. (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
    There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.‎
  4. (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
    • 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
      Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?

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Verb

hearing

  1. present participle of hear

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