Definitions for ear

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ear ear

Spelling: [eer]

IPA: /ɪər/

Ear is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in ear (aer).

Definitions for ear

noun

1. the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
2. the external ear alone:
3. the sense of hearing:
4. keen or sensitive perception of the differences of sound, especially sensitiveness to the quality and correctness of musical sounds:
5. attention; heed:
6. any part that resembles or suggests an ear in position or form, as the handle of a teacup.
7. Architecture. crossette.
8. Journalism. a small box in either upper corner of a newspaper page, usually the front page or split page, containing the name of or a symbol for the edition, a weather bulletin, a slogan, or the like.
9. Furniture. a decorative feature at the upper end of a leg. one of the decorative features at each end of a crest rail.
10. ears, Slang. earphones.
11. ear tuft.
12. the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.

Idioms

1. be all ears, Informal. to give all one's attention; listen:
2. bend an ear, to listen attentively:
3. bend someone's ear, Informal. to talk to someone uninterruptedly and often so as to induce boredom:
4. by ear, without reference to written or printed music:
5. fall on deaf ears, to be disregarded; pass unheeded:
6. give ear, to pay attention; listen carefully. Also, lend an ear.
7. go in one ear and out the other, to be heard but ignored; be put out of mind:
8. have / keep one's ear to the ground, to keep well-informed about current trends; be shrewd or astute:
9. have one's ears on, Slang. to be listening to a CB radio, police radio, walkie-talkie, etc.
10. pin someone's ears back, Slang. to give a person a sound beating; defeat a person utterly:
11. set by the ears, to cause to dispute or quarrel:
12. set on one's ear / ears, to excite or stir up; shock; amaze:
13. turn a deaf ear to, to refuse to listen to or consider (a request, petition, etc.):
14. up to one's ears, deeply involved or occupied to full capacity:
15. wet behind the ears. wet (def 19).

verb (used with object)

1. to plow; cultivate.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or put forth ears.

Origin of ear

before 900; Middle English ere, Old English ēare; cognate with Old Norse eyra, German Ohr, Gothic auso, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausìs, Greek oûs

Examples for ear

Di Giovanni thought “He wrote Spanish while in his ear he heard English.”

The sound in her ear had grown to a roar, as of many mill-wheels.

As I approached her apartment, the voice of Alcibiades met my ear.

Harry turned to Philip and spoke to him, shouting in his ear the explanation.

Muscovites call their favorite station “Ukho Moskvy” (ear of Moscow) and see it as an institution, a compass for society.

In an act of corporal punishment that we at the Daily Beast do not condone, Joseph grabbed Him by the ear and “pulled hard.”

The impact of sounds on his ear from the receiver set him to attention.

He pressed a hollow shell casing into my palm and leaned towards my ear, “I PICKED IT UP FROM THE BEDROOM!”

She had low-grade blood poisoning in her ear from the pin she used to pierce it.

A voice broke on his ear, coming, it seemed, from another world.