[
US
/ˈiɹ, ˈɪɹ/
]
[ UK /ˈiə/ ]
[ UK /ˈiə/ ]
NOUN
- the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
-
good hearing
he had a keen ear
a good ear for pitch -
attention to what is said
he tried to get her ear - the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
How To Use ear In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- The defendant was released on bail until his trial next year. Times, Sunday Times
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
- She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
- Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
- They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.