Definitions for listening
lis·ten·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. listening, hearingnoun

   the act of hearing attentively

   "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. listeningnoun

   Action of the verb listening

   You can learn a lot from grandparents by listening.

2. listeningnoun

   Skill or ability for nonnatives of English language of perceiving spoken English.

   You can improve your listening well by watching English-language films.

3. listeningadjective

   Of something that listens, or is used in order to listen.

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1. Listening

   Listening is giving attention to a sound or action. When listening, a person hears what others are saying and tries to understand what it means. The act of listening involves complex affective, cognitive and behavioral processes. Affective processes include the motivation to listen to others; cognitive processes include attending to, understanding, receiving and interpreting content and relational messages; and behavioral processes include responding to others with verbal and nonverbal feedback. Listening is a skill for resolving problems. Poor listening can lead to misinterpretations, thus causing conflict or a dispute. Other causes can be excessive interruptions, inattention, hearing what you want to hear, mentally composing a response, and having a closed mind.Listening is also linked to memory. According to one study, during a speech some background noises heard by listeners helped them recall some of the information by hearing it again. For example, when a person reads or does something else while listening to music, he or she can recall what that was when hearing the music again later.Listening also functions rhetorically as a means of promoting the cross-culture communicative discourses. Ratcliffe built her argument upon two incidents in which individuals demonstrated a tendency to refuse the cross-cultural discourses.

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1. listening

   Listening is the act of attentively receiving and comprehending auditory information or signals communicated by a speaker, through focusing mental attention, interpreting and understanding the content, responding to it appropriately, and retaining the information for future use. It involves not just hearing, but also requires concentration to process the sounds into meaningful messages.

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1. Listening

   of Listen

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1. listeningverb

   Verb form of the word listen.

   The listening ear is important as listening is an art.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 25, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'listening' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3352

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'listening' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1189

Anagrams for listening »

1. tinseling

2. enlisting

How to pronounce listening?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say listening in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of listening in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of listening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of listening in a Sentence

1. Thiruman Archunan:

   There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action.

2. Chris Ahn:

   I think the hardest part of the entire day yesterday was listening to Otto Warmbier talk about Otto Warmbier, it makes me so incredibly sad about what Otto Warmbier, Otto Warmbier family and Otto Warmbier went through, and I feel so immensely blessed to have someone like Otto Warmbier who has gone through such hard, hard times to be able to reach out to me and help me in my situation.

3. Candace Owens:

   In fact, Jason Davis/Getty Images should have tried to understand why the base was so upset with Jason Davis/Getty Images, which would have led Jason Davis/Getty Images to the fact that Jason Davis/Getty Images base is not pro-COVID vaccine. It’s that simple. I understood that. I could have told Jason Davis/Getty Images that. But at that moment, I realize that Jason Davis/Getty Images’s not listening.

4. Eric Garcetti:

   Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor, but that 5 % that nags at all of us — of what's going wrong in this country — I think is best thought out not in your own head, but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.

5. Kenneth Pendarvis:

   I was sitting at the table and I was listening to my music on my Pandora and I heard someone say 'POW!' That thing said 'POW!' Everybody ran behind that table I was sitting at. Everybody hit the floor, I hit the floor too, then they ran to this closet.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=listening
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Listening
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listening
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/listening