| 单词 | ear |
| 释义 | ear (once / 46 pages) 1n 2n Your ears are the parts of your body you use for hearing. Your ears also help you keep your balance. People have one ear on each side of their heads, and so do all animals, although some — like sea creatures — have ears that are completely internal, with no visible parts. If someone compliments you by saying, "Good ear," they mean that you're skilled at hearing or appreciating certain sounds, particularly music. A completely different kind of ear is an ear of corn, the part that holds the seeds or kernels. WORD FAMILYear: ear-like, earful, earless, ears+/earful: earfuls USAGE EXAMPLESMore recently, advocates for “new space” got Trump’s ear and were added to the transition team for “balance.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) How do you control who gets the president’s ear? Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) He pulled Mills into a bear hug and murmured plaudits into his ear. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium Hyper receptor, sense organ, sensory receptor an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation 2n the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear Syn|Hypo|Hyper auricle, pinna cauliflower ear an auricle deformed by injury; common among boxers cartilaginous structure body structure given shape by cartilage 3n good hearing he had a keen ear a good ear for pitch Hyper audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing the ability to hear; the auditory faculty 4n attention to what is said 2he tried to get her ear Hyper attending, attention the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others n fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn Syn|Hypo|Hyper capitulum, spike mealie an ear of corn fruit the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
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