listening

[lis·ten]

The act of hearing attentively

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Noun
the act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing"

Adjective S.
attending to or alert for sound; "be wary of listening ears"; "government-maintained listening posts"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Listen


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Usage Examples

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

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Other Usage Examples

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

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