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Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. ears

    In artillery the lugs or ear-shaped rings fashioned on the larger bombs or mortar-shells for their convenient handling with shell-hooks. The irregularity of surface caused by the ears is intended to be modified in future construction by the substitution of lewis-holes (which see).

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  1. earsnoun

    Plural noun of the word ear.

    A human being has two ears and two eyes.


    Submitted by MaryC on May 20, 2016  

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Entomology

  1. Ears

    organs of hearing, as on the first tibiae or on the first abdominal segment of some Trichoptera.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ears' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3340

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ears' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2856

Anagrams for ears »

  1. Ares

  2. ares

  3. ARSE

  4. arse

  5. ERAs

  6. eras

  7. rase

  8. sear

  9. sera

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ears in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ears in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of ears in a Sentence

  1. J. R. R. Tolkien:

    There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  2. Albert Camus:

    The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  3. Republican Gov. Paul LePage:

    I have been trying to get the President to pay attention to illegals in our country ... because there is a spike in hepatitis C, tuberculosis, HIV, and it is going on deaf ears.

  4. Laertius Diogenes:

    We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

  5. Hafiz:

    Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

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