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HEARD
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
Example:
a conversation heard through the wall
Classified under:
Similar:
detected (perceived or discerned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hear
Context examples:
Mr. Creakle was seen to speak, and Tungay was heard, to this effect.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As he came out of his room he heard the slosh of water, a sharp exclamation, and a resounding smack as his sister visited her irritation upon one of her numerous progeny.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Surely you have heard of it?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And then as I was hurrying off I heard him say, quite loudly, to the doctor, “I'll have no favourites on my ship.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She shook her head when she heard where I was going, but she did not say nay, and so it was settled.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The clerk hurried away in horror; but, ere he had gone many paces, he heard a sudden, sullen thump, with a choking, whistling sound at the end of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You seem to have heard about a major project that burst on the scene at the end of last month, just after the December 25 new moon solar eclipse.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
In return to which, I heard a great shout repeated three times, giving me such transports of joy as are not to be conceived but by those who feel them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
