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"

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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  

Matched Categories

1. • Sensing

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

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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. Eleni Linos:

   As technology becomes more sophisticated and people start to use their phones interactively for an increasing number of daily tasks, it would not be surprising if they also increasingly turned to electronic devices for help with personal, health and safety issues, the phone user needs to retain the power to choose what happens. Every domestic violence and sexual assault situation is different, and the phone won't know if the abuser suddenly re-enters the room, grabs the phone, or starts listening in. It's tempting to say that the phone should automatically dial 9-1-1, but that could lead to an increase in the number of accidental calls, limit emergency services' capacity to respond to actual urgent calls, and worst of all might tip off the perpetrator that his or her victim is trying to get help.

2. Tom Collier:

   Everybody that's been listening to the Pebble debate for 10 years thinks I'm lying, but I've got an ace up my sleeve and it is this permitting process. It is the truth-testing process. I'm if we're not telling the truth, we don't get a permit.

3. Amanda Rushlow:

   I just couldn't stop listening. I had headphones on the whole time I was hiking. Headphones on the entire flight there and back.

4. John Prine:

   At least they left with a voice to sing. I think it improved my voice, if anything. I always had a hard time listening to my singing before my surgery, it dropped down lower and feels friendlier to me.

5. Telegraphreports Jessica:

   He was very private and didn’t like people talking about him but the worst part is, he has grandkids that can read, that are listening to it.

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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
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/listening
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=listening