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HEED

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

Example:

he spends without heed to the consequences

Synonyms:

attentiveness; heed; paying attention; regard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("heed" is a kind of...):

attending; attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)

Attribute:

heedless; unheeding (marked by or paying little heed or attention)

attentive; heedful; paying attention; thoughtful (taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heed"):

advertence; advertency (the process of being heedful)

Derivation:

heed (pay close attention to; give heed to)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pay close attention to; give heed to

Example:

Heed the advice of the old men

Synonyms:

heed; listen; mind

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "heed" is one way to...):

obey (be obedient to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

heed (paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people))

Credits

 Context examples: 

He pursued his own thoughts without heeding me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hal cried “Whoa! whoa!” but they gave no heed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If you had listened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He took no heed of any of us, but his eyes were fixed upon Holmes’s face with an expression in which hatred and amazement were equally blended.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The most lay silent, but some muttered to themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rain lashed down upon them, pouring from their faces and running in crimson trickles over their bodies, but neither gave any heed to it save to manœuvre always with the view of bringing it in to each other’s eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But he paid no heed to her voice.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Take heed, I pray thee, for I do not wish to have a blight cast over me, nor a palsy of the limbs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She heeded no more what they said, than if she had had no ears.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)