Hawk vs Listening - What's the difference?
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A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae .
(politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions; a warmonger.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 106:
To hunt with a hawk.
* 2003 , Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams , page 175:
To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
* Shakespeare
A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
* Jonathan Swift
(intransitive) To cough up something from one's throat.
* 1751 , , I. xvi. 117
* 1953 , , Viking Press, chapter 3:
(intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.
Of something or someone that listens.
Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear.
Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.
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Action of the verb listening
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, title= Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language.
As nouns the difference between hawk and listening
is that hawk is a diurnal predatory bird of the family accipitridae or hawk can be a plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard or hawk can be an effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise while listening is action of the verb listening .As verbs the difference between hawk and listening
is that hawk is to hunt with a hawk or hawk can be to sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle or hawk can be (intransitive) to cough up something from one's throat while listening is .As an adjective listening is
of something or someone that listens.hawk
English
(wikipedia hawk)Etymology 1
(etyl) hauk, from (etyl) hafoc, from (etyl) 'falcon', (etyl) kobuz 'Eurasian Hobby').Noun
(en noun)- It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
- A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act.
Antonyms
* (politics) doveDerived terms
* African harrier hawk * aspere-hawk * ball hawk * bay-winged hawk * bee hawk * between hawk and buzzard * bicoloured hawk * black hawk * broad-winged hawk * brown hawk * chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk * common black hawk * Cooper's hawk * deficit hawk * dor-hawk, dorhawk, dorrhawk * dove hawk * duck hawk, duck-hawk * eagle hawk, eagle-hawk, eaglehawk * ferruginous hawk * fish hawk, fish-hawk, fishhawk * * game hawk * gnat hawk, gnat-hawk * gray hawk, grey hawk * gray-lined hawk, grey-lined hawk * great black hawk * great-footed hawk * Gundlach's hawk * Harlan's hawk * harrier hawk * Harris hawk, Harris's hawk * have eyes like a hawk * Hawaiian hawk * hawk-beaked * hawk-bell * hawkbill * hawk-cuckoo * hawk-dove game * hawk eagle * hawked * hawker * hawkery * hawk-eye * hawk-eyed * hawkfish * hawk fly, hawk-fly * hawk-headed parrot * hawkish * hawk-kite * hawk-like, hawklike * hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth * hawk nose, hawk-nose, hawknose * hawk-nosed * hawk-nut, hawknut * hawk of the fist * hawk of the lure * hawk of the soar * hawk owl, hawk-owl * hawk-parrot * hawk's beard, hawk's-beard, hawksbeard * hawk's bell * hawk's bill, hawk's-bill, hawksbill * hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * hawk's eye, hawk's-eye * hawk's-feet, hawk's-foot * hawk's meat * hawk swallow, hawk-swallow * hawkweed * hawkwise * hawky * hen hawk, hen-hawk * hobby hawk * hover-hawk * jack-hawk * jashawk * Jayhawk * kitchen hawk * know a hawk from a handsaw * Krider's hawk * lark-hawk * liberal hawk * long-tailed hawk * Lucifer hawk * make-hawk * man-of-war hawk * mangrove black hawk * mar-hawk * market-hawk * marsh hawk * meadowhawk * moor hawk * mosquito hawk * moth-hawk * mountain hawk * mouse hawk, mouse-hawk * news-hawk, newshawk * night hawk, night-hawk * pap-hawk * partridge-hawk * passage hawk * peregrine hawk * pigeon hawk, pigeon-hawk * plain-breasted hawk * pondhawk * prairie hawk * quail hawk * red-shouldered hawk * red-tailed hawk * Ridgway's hawk * ringtail hawk * rough-legged hawk * rufous-thighed hawk * savanna hawk * screech hawk, screech-hawk * sea hawk, sea-hawk * semicollared hawk * sharp-shinned hawk * shite-hawk * short-tailed hawk * shower hawk * skeeter hawk * small-bird-hawk * snake hawk * snipe hawk * spar-hawk, sparhawk * sparrow hawk, sparrow-hawk, sparrowhawk * squirrel hawk * stand hawk * stannel hawk * star-hawk * stone hawk * Swainson's hawk * swallow-tailed hawk * tarantula hawk * tiny hawk * vanner hawk * war hawk, war-hawk * watch (someone or something) like a hawk * whistling hawk * white-breasted hawk * white-throated hawk * white hawk * zone-tailed hawkVerb
(en verb)- He rode astride while (hawking); she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.
- to hawk at flies
- (Dryden)
- A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Derived terms
* hawk after * hawk at * hawk for * hawkingEtymology 2
Uncertain origin; perhaps from (etyl) , or from a variant use of .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* mortarboardDerived terms
* hawk boy, hawk-boyEtymology 3
Verb
(en verb)- The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.
- His works were hawked in every street.
Derived terms
* hawked * hawking * hawkyEtymology 4
Onomatopoeia.Synonyms
* (noun)Verb
(en verb)- He hawked up, with incredible straining, the interjection ah!
- He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.
- Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
Derived terms
* (noun)See also
* Hawkshaw, hawkshaw * Hawkubite * winkle-hawk English onomatopoeiaslistening
English
Adjective
(-)- Any listening person can tell she's lying.
- He could hear better when he used his listening device.
- The safest cover lay close under the wall of the cañon, and here through the dense thickets Venters made his slow, listening advance toward the oval.
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}