Hearse vs Hears - What's the difference?
hearse | hears |
A hind in the second year of its age.
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
* Ben Jonson
* Fairfax
* Longfellow
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
* Shakespeare
A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
(dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
(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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(label) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) X:
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(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 hearse and hears
is that hearse is to enclose in a hearse; to entomb while hears is third-person singular of hear.As a noun hearse
is a hind in the second year of its age.hearse
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(wikipedia hearse)Noun
(en noun)- underneath this marble hearse
- Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.
- who lies beneath this sculptured hearse
- Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse .
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(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 [...].