different between hearing vs plea
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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plea
English
Etymology
From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit and placate. See also please, pleasure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pli?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Noun
plea (plural pleas)
- An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
- a plea for mercy
- An excuse; an apology.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost IV.393
- Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost IV.393
- That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
- (law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
- (law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
- (law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
- (law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
- 1782, "An Act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the Commonwealth", quoted in The Constitutional History of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Frank Washburn Grinnell, 1917, page 434
- they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.
- 1782, "An Act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the Commonwealth", quoted in The Constitutional History of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Frank Washburn Grinnell, 1917, page 434
Usage notes
In 19th-century U.K. law, that which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant’s plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant’s formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him/her.
Related terms
- pleas of the crown
- plead
- pleasant
- please
- pleasurable
- pleasure
Synonyms
- plaidoyer
Translations
Verb
plea (third-person singular simple present pleas, present participle pleaing, simple past and past participle pleaed)
- (chiefly England regional, Scotland) To plead; to argue. [from 15th c.]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
Further reading
- plea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- plea in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- plea at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, pale, pale-, peal, pela
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