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noun
The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
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Usage: countable
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noun
The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A police informant.
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Usage: countable, slang
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noun
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
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noun
The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
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noun
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
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noun
An acroterium.
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Topics: architecture
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noun
A crossette.
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Topics: architecture
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noun
A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
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Topics: journalism, media
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noun
A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
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Topics: baking, cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
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Topics: business, clothing, fashion, lifestyle, manufacturing, textiles
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noun
A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
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Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
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noun
The fruiting body of a grain plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: head, spike
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noun
Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive, a file format used to package Java applications.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
Initialism of estimated average requirements.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Qualifier: nutrition
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verb
To take in with the ears; to hear.
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Usage: humorous, transitive
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verb
To hold by the ears.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
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verb
To plough.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor
noun
the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: auricle, pinna
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Broader terms: cartilaginous structure
Narrower terms: cauliflower ear
noun
good hearing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality
noun
attention to what is said
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: attention, attending
noun
fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: spike, capitulum
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Broader terms: fruit
Narrower terms: mealie
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h2ṓws Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Old English ēare Middle English ere English ear From Middle English eare, eere, ere, eyr, ire, yere, ȝhere, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2ṓws (“ear”), from *h2ew- (“to perceive”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian uaar, uar, uur (“ear”), Saterland Frisian Oor (“ear”), West Frisian ear (“ear”), Alemannic German Oor (“ear”), Central Franconian Uhr (“ear”), Dutch oor (“ear”), German Ohr (“ear”), Low German Ohr, Oor, Or, our, Ur (“ear”), Luxembourgish Ouer (“ear”), Vilamovian ür (“ear”), Yiddish אויער (oyer, “ear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål øre (“ear”), Elfdalian ära (“ear”), Faroese oyra (“ear”), Icelandic eyra (“ear”), Jamtish ǿre (“ear”), Norwegian Nynorsk øra, øre, øyra, øyre (“ear”), Swedish öra (“ear”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍉 (ausō, “ear”); also Old Irish áu, ó (“ear”), Latin auris, ōris (“ear”), Greek αφτί (aftí), αυτί (aftí, “ear”), Albanian vesh (“ear; handle”), Latvian auss (“ear”), Lithuanian ausis (“ear”), Belarusian ву́ха (vúxa, “ear”), Bulgarian ухо́ (uhó, “ear”), Czech, Polish, Silesian, and Slovak ucho (“ear”), Kashubian ùchò (“ear”), Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian wucho (“ear”), Macedonian уво (uvo, “ear”), Polabian vaux’ü (“ear”), Russian у́хо (úxo, “ear”), Serbo-Croatian у̏во, у̏хо, ȕho, ȕvo (“ear”), Slovene uho (“ear”), Slovincian wùchô (“ear”), Ukrainian ву́хо (vúxo, “ear”), Armenian ունկ (unk, “ear”), Persian هوش (hōš / huš, “intellect; intelligence; understanding”), Sanskrit उषस् (uṣas, “outer passage of the ear”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h2éḱos Proto-Germanic *ahaz Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ Old English ēar Middle English er English ear From Middle English er, ere, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h2eḱ- (“sharp”). Cognate with Dutch aar, German Ähre, and West Frisian ier; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), and Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.
From Middle English eren, from Old English erian, from Proto-West Germanic *arjan, from Proto-Germanic *arjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h2erh3- (“to plough”).
Across languages
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