different between hearing vs earplug

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)

1. Able to hear.

   Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.

Antonyms

• deaf
• nonhearing

Translations

Noun

hearing (countable and uncountable, plural hearings)

1. (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
2. (countable) The act by which something is heard.
3. (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.

4. (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
5. (informal, dated) A scolding.

Derived terms

• hard of hearing
• hearing aid
• hearing-impaired
• in hearing
• preliminary hearing

Translations

Verb

hearing

1. present participle of hear

English

Etymology

ear +? plug

Noun

earplug (plural earplugs)

1. A piece of protective gear meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the wearer's hearing from loud noises or the intrusion of water.

Translations

Verb

earplug (third-person singular simple present earplugs, present participle earplugging, simple past and past participle earplugged)

1. (transitive) To fit with earplugs.
   • 1975, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 8

     In this same strain of mouse, earplugging from 17-22 days postpartum is effective in inducing susceptibility to audiogenic seizures...

   • 1992, Robin Cody, Ricochet river

     There wasn't much I could tell him, earplugged, but I crawled into turbine number 3 and waved him on in.

See also

• earmuffs

Anagrams

• graupel, pergula, plaguer