Hear vs There - What's the difference?
hear | there |
(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.
(location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here ).
* 1623 , , The Comedy of Errors , Act 5, Scene 1,
* 1769 , , 2, viii,
* 1667 , '', 1773, James Buchanan (editor), ''The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered into Grammatical Construction ,
(figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
* 1597 '', Act 3, Scene 3, 1836, ''The Works of Shakespeare , Isaac, Tuckey, and Co.,
(location) To or into that place; thither.
* , prologue:
* 1623 , , Act 2, Scene 1,
* 1690 , , paragraph 4:
* 1769 , , 28, vii,
(obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
* ,
*:: Note : Modern editions commonly render this instance of ther'' as ''where .
In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below .
* 1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, "Why Don't We Fly?", in Popular Science ,
That place.
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That status; that position.
* 1908', C. H. Bovill (lyrics), Jerome D. Kern (music), '''', song from the musical ''Fluffy Ruffles ,
* 1909', ,
* 1918 , , Part 1, II,
* 1895 , Sabine Baring-Gould, : Nursery Songs, XXII: The Tree in the Wood,
* 1897 , '': The Kentucky Home, in ''Four Great Americans ,
* 1904 , Uriel Waldo Cutler, , Chapter XXXI: How Sir Launcelot Found the Holy Grail,
(in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
(colloquial)
As a verb hear
is to perceive sounds through the ear.As an adverb there is
in a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).As an interjection there is
Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.As a noun there is
that place.As a pronoun there is
Used as an expletive subject of {{term|be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.}.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?
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- Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].
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 * rehearSee also
* audible * deaf * listenReferences
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Adverb
(-)- And in a dark and dankish vault at home / There left me and my man, both bound together;
- The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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- To veil the heav'n, tho' darkne?s there' might well / Seem twilight ' here .
- He did not stop there , but continued his speech.
- They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there .
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- The law, that threaten’d death, becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
- A knight there was, and that a worthy man /
- And the rarest that e’er came there .
- So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.
- There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
The Summoners's Prologue and Tale]'', in ''[[w:The Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales],
- And spende hir good ther it is resonable;
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- These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.
Usage notes
* The use of there'' instead of they're (meaning ''they are ) is a common error in English writing. * (to or into that place) ** There'' is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; as, There, there'''! See '''there'''! Look ' there ! ** There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. ** There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.Synonyms
* (to or into that place) thither (archaic)Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * *Interjection
(en interjection)- There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
- There! That knot should hold.
Noun
(en noun)- You get it ready; I'll take it from there .
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]
- There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]
- Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]
- No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]
- It's very sad but all the same, / There ’s something rather odd about Augustus.
- There was a time when I tried to change my position, which was not in harmony with my conscience; .
- There are intentional and unintentional towns.
- If x is a positive number, then there''' exists ''[='''there is]'' a positive number y less than x.
- There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]
- Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there''' lived a woodsman with his wife.'' [=' There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]
- There''' arose a great wind out of the east.'' [=' There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]
- All in a wood there grew a fine tree,
- Not far from Hodgensville, in Kentucky, there once lived a man whose name was Thomas Lincoln.
- On a night, as he slept, there came a vision unto him, and a voice said, "Launcelot, arise up, and take thine armour, and enter into the first ship that thou shalt find."
- There''' seems to be some difficulty with the papers.'' [=It seems that ' there is some difficulty with the papers.]
- I expected there''' to be a simpler solution.'' [=I expected that ' there would be a simpler solution.]
- There''' are beginning to be complications.'' [=It's beginning to be the case that ' there are complications.]
- there'''for, '''there'''at, ' there under
- Hi there , young fellow.