单词 | heard |
释义 | heard (once / 16 pages) adj If your dog trembled and shook at the sound of fireworks, he might have thought he heard gunshots. Heard means "perceived by the sense of hearing." If you detected a sound using your ears, you heard it. Heard is the past tense of the verb hear, and it's also an adjective when you use it to describe a particular sound, as when you say, "The music was even lovelier since it was mysteriously heard from afar." A word you might confuse with heard is herd, which means "group of animals." WORD FAMILYheard: heardest, heardly, unheard+/hear: hearable, heard, hearer, hearing, hears, overhear, rehear/hearable: hearably, unhearable/hearer: hearers/hearing: hearings, rehearing, unhearing/overhear: overheard, overhearing, overhears/rehear: reheard/rehearing: rehearings/unhearing: unhearingly USAGE EXAMPLESI saw lights and heard beautiful singing and even moved a little. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) In the other, an officer heard gunshots and found a victim inside a car. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Federal appeals Judge Thomas Vanaskie said it’s a message that needs to be heard. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) adj detected or perceived by the sense of hearing a conversation heard through the wall Syn detected perceived or discerned |
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