Listener vs Listening - What's the difference?
listener | listening |
Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
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* 1937 , (John Steinbeck), Of Mice and Men :
A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
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 listener and listening
is that listener is someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast while listening is action of the verb listening .As an adjective listening is
of something or someone that listens.As a verb listening is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.
Derived terms
* listenershipSee also
* audienceAnagrams
* * * English agent nounslistening
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.}}