Nearby Words
heard
| Main Entry: |
heard
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceived |
| Synonyms: | caught, heeded, listened to, made clear, made out, noted, understood, witnessed |
| Notes: | heard means detected or perceived by the sense of hearing while a herd is a group of wild animals of one species that remain together |
| Main Entry: | hear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become aware of information |
| Synonyms: | apperceive, ascertain, be advised, be informed, be led to believe, be told of, catch, catch on, descry, determine, discover, find out, gather, get the picture, get wind of, get wise to, glean, have on good authority, learn, pick up*, receive, see, tumble*, understand, unearth |
| Notes: | to listen is to try to hear; to hear is simply to perceive with the ear |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | observed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noticed |
| Synonyms: | ascertained, attended, beheld, checked, contemplated, descried, detected, discerned, discovered, espied, examined, found, heard, heeded, inspected, looked at, marked, noted, noticed, perceived, realized, recognized, regarded, revealed, scrutinized, seen, surveyed, viewed, watched |
| Antonyms: | unnoticed, unperceived, unseen |
| Main Entry: | overheard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | listened to |
| Synonyms: | discovered, heard, recorded |
| Main Entry: | perceived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | seen |
| Synonyms: | anticipated, felt, grasped, heard, heeded, noted, noticed, observed, picked up, reacted to, recognized, sensed, touched, understood, witnessed |
| Main Entry: | attend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay attention; apply oneself |
| Synonyms: | catch, concentrate on, devote oneself, follow, get a load of, hear, hearken, heed, keep one's eye on, lend an ear, listen, listen up, look after, look on, mark, mind, note, notice, observe, occupy oneself with, pay heed, pick up, regard, see to, watch |
| Antonyms: | be lazy, disregard, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | determine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discover, find out |
| Synonyms: | add up to, ascertain, boil down to, catch on, certify, check, demonstrate, detect, divine, establish, figure, figure out, have a hunch, hear, learn, make out, see, size up, tell, tumble, unearth, verify, work out |
| Antonyms: | miss, overlook |
| Main Entry: | discover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find, uncover |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, bring to light, catch, come across, come upon, conceive, contrive, debunk, design, detect, determine, devise, dig up, discern, disclose, distinguish, elicit, espy, explore, ferret out, get wind of, get wise to, glimpse, hear, identify, invent, learn, light upon, locate, look up, nose out, notice, observe, originate, perceive, pick up on, pioneer, realize, recognize, reveal, see, sense, smoke out, spot, think of, turn up, unearth |
| Notes: | The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before. |
| Antonyms: | lose, miss, pass by |
| Main Entry: | find out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discover, learn |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, catch, catch on, detect, determine, disclose, divine, expose, hear, identify, note, observe, perceive, realize, reveal, see, uncover, unearth, unmask |
| Antonyms: | conceal, cover, hide |
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