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ear

noun
/ˈɪə̯/UK/ˈɛː//ˈɪɚ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Old English ēare Middle English ere English ear From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ere, er, eir, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål øre, Norwegian Nynorsk øyra), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), and Old Armenian ունկն (unkn).

  1. inherited from *h₂ṓws✻
  2. inherited from *ausô✻
  3. inherited from *auʀā✻
  4. inherited from ēare — “ear”
  5. inherited from ere

Definitions

  1. The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum,…

    The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.

  2. The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.

  3. A police informant.

    • No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.
  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. The sense of hearing

      The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.

      • a good ear for music
      • songs[…]not all ungrateful to thine ear

    2. The privilege of being kindly heard

      The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.

      • Dionysius[…]would give no ear to his suit.
      • Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

    3. That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal

      That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.

      • the ears of a tub, skillet, or dish; The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.
      • When they got as far as the little valley north of Oppenhagen - where the land-slip took place - he thought he sat between the ears of a bucket; but shortly this vanished also, and it was only then he really came to himself again.

    4. An acroterium.

    5. A crossette.

    6. A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising,…

      A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.

      • In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).

    7. A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going…

      A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.

    8. The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located,…

      The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.

    9. A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of…

      A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.

    10. To take in with the ears

      To take in with the ears; to hear.

      • I eared her language.

    11. To hold by the ears.

      • Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold.
      • The general technique was to rope the horse around the neck, and, while one or two men eared the horse down (held him by the ears), the rider saddled the animal and stepped above him.

    12. The fruiting body of a grain plant.

      • He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.

    13. To put forth ears in growing

      To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.

      • This corn ears well.

    14. To plough.

      • That power I have, discharge; and let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow, For I have none.
      • And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley

    15. Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive, a file format used to package Java…

      Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive, a file format used to package Java applications.

    16. Initialism of estimated average requirements.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ear. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ear. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at ear

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA