Yeared vs Heared - What's the difference?
yeared | heared |
Of a specified number of years.
(poetic) That has lasted many years; old.
*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 701:
*:Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat. (nonstandard) (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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, 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.
As an adjective yeared
is of a specified number of years.As a verb heared is
(nonstandard) (hear).yeared
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Adjective
(-)heared
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(head)hear
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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 [...].