Hear

Definition

hear / hÇǝ(r)/ v ( pt, pp heard /hɜ:d/) ၁။ ၾကားသည္။ She doesn't/ can't hear very well (ie is rather deaf). ❍ We listened but could hear nothing. ❍ Have you heard her latest record? ❍ I heard someone laughing. Did you hear him go out? ❍ She was often heard to remark on how lonely she felt. ❍ ( fig ) Can't you just hear her say (ie imagine her saying) that? ၂။ နားေထာင္သည္။ You're not to go—do you hear me! ❍ We'd better hear what they have to say. ❍ Be quiet—I can't hear myself think (ie I can't concentrate)! ❍ FEEL 1 ၃။ ~ ( about sb/sth ) ၾကားသည္။ သိသည္။ ၾကားသိသည္။ You sing very well, I hear. ❍ Have you heard the news? ❍ I heard (that) you were ill. ❍ Have you heard about his dismissal? ၄။ ၾကားနာသည္။ The court heard the evidence. ❍ Which judge will hear the case? ❏ hearer /'hÇǝrǝ(r)/ n နားေထာင္သူ။ ❏ hear! hear! [ IDM ] (သေဘာက်ျခင္း၊ ေထာက္ခံျခင္းအတြက္ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ❏ hear from sb [ PHRV ] (တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးထံမွ) စာ၊ တယ္လီဖုန္း စသည္ လာသည္။ How often do you hear from your sister? ❏ hear of sb/ sth [ PHRV ] ၾကားမိသည္။ သတင္းၾကားသည္။ I've never heard of the place. ❍ She disappeared and was never heard of again. ❏ hear sb out [ PHRV ] ၿပီးေအာင္နားေထာင္သည္။ I know you don't believe me but please hear me out! ❏ hear a pin drop [ IDM ] အပ္က်သံေတာင္ ၾကားရတယ္။ The audience was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. ❏ hear tell of sth [ IDM ] ေျပာသံၾကားသည္။ I've often heard tell of such things. ❏ hear things [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ကထင္တာပါ။ ‘Was that a knock at the door?’ ‘No, you must be hearing things!’ ❏ not/ never hear the end of sth [ IDM ] ေျပာလို႔ဆံုးမွာ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ If we don't give her what she wants we'll never hear the end of it. ❏ not hear of sth [ PHRV ] (usu with will or would ) ခြင့္မျပဳ။ ခြင့္ျပဳမည္မဟုတ္။ He wouldn't hear of my walking home alone.

Examples

1. He listened but heard nothing more.
2. Mary heard the sound of voices.
3. Shh – I can’t hear.
4. [hear what] : No one could hear what she said.
5. [hear do something] : He heard the door slam shut.
6. [hear doing something] : She heard the dog barking outside.
7. Have you heard? Lucy passed her exam.
8. [hear (that)] : I heard he’d got a new job.
9. [hear about] : Did you hear about Jim’s party?
10. [hear of] : We didn’t hear of his death until many years later.
11. [be etc to hear] : I’m delighted to hear that you’re coming.
12. [hear what/how etc] : I came home as soon as I heard what happened.
13. [hear] : We heard rumours that the school was going to close.
14. We’ll meet again in two weeks
15. when I’ll hear your suggestions.
16. [hear what] : We’re all eager to hear what he has to say.
17. [hear someone on something] : All members are entitled to be heard on this matter.
18. I want to hear the news on the radio before I go.
19. Do you want to hear this story or not?
20. [hear someone do something] : He’s got a great voice – you should hear him sing.
21. He heard the bitterness in her voice.
22. Look
23. you’re just not hearing me
24. are you?
25. I’m surprised to hear you say that.
26. I haven’t heard him offering to help (=he has not offered).
27. You won’t hear me complain (=I won’t complain).
28. [be heard to etc] : One visitor was heard to remark something about the entrance fee.
29. The appeal will be heard by a single judge.
30. The court heard that he had been drinking.
31. The jury heard evidence from his employees.