Synonyms of the word ear


EARATTENDING - ATTENTION - AUDITION - AURICLE - CAPITULUM - FRUIT - HEARING - PINNA - RECEPTOR - SPIKE

ear

  • n. (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes…
  • n. (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
  • n. (countable, slang) A police informant.
  • n. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones.
  • n. The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
  • n. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object,…
  • n. (architecture) An acroterium.
  • n. (architecture) A crossette.
  • v. (humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
  • n. (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
  • v. (intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
  • v. (archaic) To plough.

attending

  • adj. That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
  • adj. Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
  • n. (US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's…
  • v. present participle of attend.

attention

  • n. (uncountable) Mental focus.
  • n. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially…
  • n. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
  • interj. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.

audition

  • n. (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
  • n. (uncountable) The sense of hearing.
  • v. (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.

auricle

  • n. (anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
  • n. (anatomy) An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart.
  • n. (anatomy) An atrium, the smaller of the two types of chamber in the heart.
  • n. (botany) Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe.

capitulum

  • n. (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from…
  • n. (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
  • n. (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket…
  • n. (entomology, obsolete) The enlarged end of a proboscis.

fruit

  • n. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from…
  • n. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from…
  • n. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
  • n. Offspring from a sexual union.
  • n. (colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.
  • n. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
  • v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

hearing

  • adj. Able to hear.
  • n. (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
  • n. (countable) The act by which something is heard.
  • n. (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
  • n. (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
  • v. present participle of hear.

pinna

  • n. (anatomy) The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding…
  • n. (botany) A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf.
  • n. (zoology) A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.

receptor

  • n. (biochemistry, medicine) A protein on a cell wall that binds with specific molecules so that they can…
  • n. (biology) Any specialized cell or structure that responds to sensory stimuli.

spike

  • n. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward/outward.
  • n. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  • n. An ear of corn or grain.
  • n. (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
  • n. (in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
  • n. A sharp peak in a graph.
  • n. The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
  • n. A long nail for storing papers and, by extension, the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles…
  • n. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the…
  • n. (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
  • n. A surge in power.
  • n. (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
  • n. Spike lavender.
  • v. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
  • v. To set or furnish with spikes.
  • v. To fix on a spike.
  • v. To prevent or frustrate.
  • v. To increase sharply.
  • v. To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
  • v. To add a small amount of one substance to another.
  • v. (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight…
  • v. (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
  • v. (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public.
  • v. (football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or…

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