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hearing
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??.??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h???.??/, /?h???.??/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?hi??.??/
- Rhymes: -??r??
Adjective
hearing (comparative more hearing, superlative most hearing)
- Able to hear.
- Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.
Antonyms
- deaf
- nonhearing
Translations
Noun
hearing (countable and uncountable, plural hearings)
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard.
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- (informal, dated) A scolding.
Derived terms
- hard of hearing
- hearing aid
- hearing-impaired
- in hearing
- preliminary hearing
Translations
Verb
hearing
- present participle of hear
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appeal
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??pi?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??pil/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Hyphenation: ap?peal
Etymology 1
From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms], from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”), from Latin appell?re, adpell?re, respectively the present active infinitives of appell? (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”) and adpell? (“to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?éd (“at; to”)) + pell? (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”)).
Noun
appeal (countable and uncountable, plural appeals)
- (law)
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
- (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
Alternative forms
- appeale (obsolete, 16th–17th c.)
- appeall (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- appellant
- appellate
- appellee
- appellor
Translations
See also
- approvement
Etymology 2
From Middle English apelen, appelen (“to accuse; to make a formal charge before a court, etc., impeach; to challenge to trial by combat; to apply to a higher court or authority for review of a decision; to call upon for a decision, favour, help, etc.; to call by a name”) [and other forms], from Old French apeler (“to call; to call out”); see further at etymology 1.
Verb
appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)
- (law)
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
- (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
- (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- appeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- appeal (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- appeal at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English appeal.
Noun
appeal
- appeal (power to attract or interest)
- sex appeal
Anagrams
- papale
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