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单词 ear
释义

ear

See also: EAR, -ear, 'ear, èar, and éar

English

A human ear.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪə̯/
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  • (US, Canada), IPA(key): /ɪɚ/, /ˈiɹ/
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    • Audio (GA)(file)
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /iə̯/, [iːə̯], [ɪə̯~eə̯]
    • Homophones: air, heir
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: -eer

Etymology 1

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 ear, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish øre), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausìs, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), and Persian گوش‎ (gôš)).

Noun

ear (plural ears)

  1. (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
  2. (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
      Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
  3. (countable, slang) A police informant.
    • 1976, Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, The Enforcer.
      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. The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 3968433, (please specify |part=prologue or epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):
      songs […] not all ungrateful to thine ear
    a good ear for music
  5. The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], OCLC 771110810:
      Dionysius […] would give no ear to his suit.
    • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
      Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
  6. 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.
    the ears of a tub, skillet, or dish;   The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 291:
      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.
  7. (architecture) An acroterium.
  8. (architecture) A crossette.
  9. (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
    • 2006, Richard Weiner, ‎Charles M. Levine, The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo (page 26)
      In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).
Alternative forms
  • ere (obsolete)
Derived terms
  • bangle ear
  • bat ear
  • bear's ear
  • behind the ear
  • bend somebody's ear
  • bend someone's ear
  • between the ears
  • bionic ear
  • blow it out one's ear
  • blue-ear pig disease
  • burnt ear
  • button ear
  • by ear
  • cat's ear
  • cauliflower ear
  • cloud ear
  • crop-ear
  • cuff on the ear
  • cute as a bug's ear
  • dog ear
  • dog-ear
  • dog's-ear
  • earache
  • ear bob
  • earbud
  • ear bud
  • ear-bud
  • ear canal
  • ear candle
  • ear candling
  • ear candy
  • ear chair
  • ear cockle
  • ear coning
  • ear dagger
  • ear defender
  • ear drop
  • ear drops
  • eardrum
  • ear drum
  • ear fatigue
  • ear-finger
  • ear finger
  • earful
  • earhole
  • ear hustle
  • ear lobe
  • earlobe
  • earmark
  • ear-minded
  • earphone
  • earpiece
  • ear-piercing
  • ear-piercingly
  • ear prick
  • earprint
  • ear rape
  • ear-rape
  • ear-reach
  • earring
  • ear rocks
  • ears are burning
  • ear-shell
  • ear shell
  • earshot
  • earsore
  • ear speaker
  • ear-splitting
  • ear-splittingly
  • ear-spoon
  • ear spoon
  • ear tag, ear-tag
  • ear-tagged
  • ear toilet
  • ear to the ground
  • ear trumpet
  • ear-trumpet
  • ear tuft
  • ear tunnel
  • earwax
  • ear wax
  • ear-wax
  • ear-worm
  • ear worm
  • earworm
  • ear-wormy
  • earworthy
  • elephant ear
  • external ear
  • flea in one's ear
  • give ear
  • glue ear
  • go in one ear and out the other
  • hare's ear
  • hart's ear
  • have a word in someone's ear
  • have one's ears lowered
  • have one's ears on
  • have someone's ear
  • have the wolf by the ear
  • have Van Gogh's ear for music
  • hearing-ear dog
  • in-ear monitor
  • inner ear
  • internal ear
  • in the ear
  • Jew's-ear
  • Jew's ear
  • lend an ear
  • lion's ear
  • listen with half an ear
  • little pitchers have big ears
  • make a pig's ear of
  • make a silk purse of a sow's ear
  • Midas's ear
  • middle ear
  • mind's ear
  • mouse-ear
  • mule's ear
  • outer ear
  • out on one's ear
  • pig's ear
  • play by ear
  • pour honey in one's ear
  • pour honey into one's ear
  • put a bug in someone's ear
  • rabbit ear
  • rabbit ear mite
  • red ear syndrome
  • roasting ear
  • rose ear
  • sea-ear
  • smile from ear to ear
  • surfer's ear
  • swimmer's ear
  • talk out of one's ear
  • talk someone's ear off
  • thick ear
  • tickle the ear
  • tin ear
  • turn a deaf ear
  • up on one's ear
  • walls have ears
  • white-ear
  • wood ear
  • you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
  • Pages starting with “ear”.
Descendants
  • Tok Pisin: ia
Translations
See ear/translations § Noun.

Verb

ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)

  1. (humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
    • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher; William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, OCLC 1170464517, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      I eared her language.
  2. To hold by the ears.
    • 1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:
      Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold.
    • 2013, Fay E. Ward, The Cowboy at Work:
      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.

See also

  • ear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • aural

Etymology 2

Ears of wheat.

From Middle English eere, er, from Old English ēar (Northumbrian dialect æhher), from Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).

See also West Frisian ier, Dutch aar, German Ähre; also Latin acus (“needle; husk”), Tocharian B āk (“ear, awn”), Old Church Slavonic ость (ostĭ, “wheat spike, sharp point”). More at edge.

Noun

ear (plural ears)

  1. (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
    He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
Synonyms
  • head
  • spike
Derived terms
  • corn earworm
  • earshoot
Translations

Verb

ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)

  1. (intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
    This corn ears well.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English eren, from Old English erian, from Proto-West Germanic *arjan, from Proto-Germanic *arjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).

Verb

ear (third-person singular simple present ears, present participle earing, simple past and past participle eared)

  1. (archaic) To plough.
    • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      That power I have, discharge; and let them go
      To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
      For I have none.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 21:4:
      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
Translations
plough — see plough

Anagrams

  • ARE, Aer, ERA, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, era, rea

Latin

Verb

ear

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of eō

Middle English

Noun

ear

  1. Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æ͜ɑːr/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *aur, from Proto-Germanic *auraz. Akin to Old Norse aurr (“mud”).

Noun

ēar m

  1. sea
  2. earth
Declension
Declension of ear (strong a-stem)
CaseSingularPlural
nominativeēarēaras
accusativeēarēaras
genitiveēaresēara
dativeēareēarum
Derived terms
  • Old English: Ēarmūþa
    • English: Yarmouth

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“pointed”).

Alternative forms

  • æhher – Northumbria

Noun

ēar n

  1. ear (of corn)
Declension
Declension of ear (strong a-stem)
CaseSingularPlural
nominativeēarēar
accusativeēarēar
genitiveēaresēara
dativeēareēarum
Descendants
  • Middle English: eere, ear, ere, er, ȝer, eyre
    • English: ear
    • Scots: aicher, icker, aiker (< æhher)

Scots

Adverb

ear (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of air (“early”)

References

  • “ear, adv., adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish an air (literally “from before”), equivalent to modern a (“from”) + air (“before”).

Noun

ear f

  1. east
    Antonym: iar

Derived terms

  • an ear
  • sear

See also

(compass points)

iar-thuathtuathear-thuath
iarear
iar-dheasdeasear-dheas

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “ear”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “ear” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
  • “ear” in LearnGaelic - Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian āre, from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

Noun

ear n (plural earen, diminutive earke)

  1. ear

Derived terms

  • earbel
  • earring

Further reading

  • “ear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English er, from Old English ǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *airi.

Preposition

ear

  1. ere, before

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 37
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