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Hear vs Hoar - What's the difference?

hear | hoar |

As verbs the difference between hear and hoar

is that hear is (label) to perceive sounds through the ear while hoar is (obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.

As a noun hoar is

a white or greyish-white colour.

As an adjective hoar is

of a white or greyish-white colour.

hear

English

(wikipedia hear)

Verb

  • (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.
  • *
    • , 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:
    • 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?
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , 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) :
    • Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].
  • (label) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
  • To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.

    • Derived terms

    * another county heard from * forehear * hard of hearing * hear about * hear hear * hear on the grapevine * hear out * hear the grass grow * hearing aid * mishear * overhear * rehear

    See also

    * audible * deaf * listen

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    hoar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A white or greyish-white colour.
    • (BDCADC)
  • Hoariness; antiquity.
  • * Burke
    • Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  • * Spenser
    • hoar waters
  • (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  • * 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
    • This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
    Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
    Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
    Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
  • * Byron
    • old trees with trunks all hoar
  • (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
    • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

    Derived terms

    * hoarfrost * hoary * hoared

    Related terms

    * haar * horehound

    See also

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
    • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

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