Heads vs Hears - What's the difference?
heads | hears |
(nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similar
abbreviation for headphones.
(Irish, legal) Draft scheme of a before it is formally introduced to a parliament
* 2000s "
* 2012 Department of Justice and Equality "
(head)
(slang) High-grade marijuana.
(hear)
(label) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(label) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
(label) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) X:
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}
(label) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
(label) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) :
(label) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.
As verbs the difference between heads and hears
is that heads is third-person singular of head while hears is third-person singular of hear.As an interjection heads
is a shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.As a noun heads
is plural of lang=en.heads
English
Etymology 1
Plural of head.Synonyms
* (warning) heads up, fore, timberNoun
(head) (p)- Heads , I win.
- Pass me the heads , I wanna listen.
How Irish statutes were made" Queens University Belfast:
- Until the session of 1782 bills could only (under Poynings’ Law) begin in the Irish privy council. However, informal legislative initiatives, known as ‘heads of bills’, began regularly in the houses of parliament.
Government Publishes Proposed Amendments to Anti Money-Laundering Law" Dublin, 6 June 2012:
- The Heads of the Bill are being published to enable consultation with relevant sectors on the proposed changes prior to the detailed drafting of the Bill.
Antonyms
* (side of coin ): tailsDerived terms
* heads of agreementEtymology 2
Verb
(head)Etymology 3
head (from the notion that it gives a head high) (possibly either genitive or plural).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l)Coordinate terms
* (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l)Anagrams
*hears
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*hear
English
(wikipedia hear)Verb
- Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?
George Goodchild
- Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].