hearing
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hearing/ˈhɪərɪŋ/
▶noun
- 1 the faculty of perceiving sounds.
■ the range within which sounds may be heard; earshot.
- 2 an opportunity to state one's case.
- 3 Law an act of listening to evidence, especially a trial before a judge without a jury.
'hearing' also found in these Oxford entries:
acoustic
- acoustic shock
- acuity
- audial
- audio-
- audiology
- audiometry
- audit
- audition
- auditory
- aural
- auricular
- bullpen
- clairaudience
- cockney
- colliculus
- court
- deaf
- deaf aid
- deaf-blind
- dismiss
- ear
- ear trumpet
- fenestration
- general paralysis of the insane
- glue ear
- hard
- hearing aid
- hypnopaedia
- impaired
- induction loop
- instance
- labyrinth
- neocortex
- remit
- sense
- textphone
- thing
- tragus
- tympanum
- ultrasonic
- up
