Terms vs Earlid - What's the difference?
terms | earlid |
An imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.
* 2008 , Glenn Murphy, How Loud Can You Burp? (page 22)
* 2009 , Seth Kim-Cohen, In the blink of an ear: toward a non-cochlear sonic art (page xx)
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 23, author=Natalie Angier, title=When an Ear Witness Decides the Case, work=New York Times
, passage=But when one neighbor’s leaf blower sets off another neighbor’s car alarm, hey, where are my earlids ? }}
As nouns the difference between terms and earlid
is that terms is while earlid is an imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.earlid
English
Noun
(en noun)- But wouldn't earlids be useful too? Possibly. But not so useful that without them earlid-less animals would die out
- There is no such thing as an earlid . The ear is always open, always supplementing its primary materiality, always multiplying the singularity of perception into the plurality of experience.
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