hear

verb

1. (intransitive, stative)To perceive sounds through the ear.

   “I was deaf, but now I can hear.”

2. (stative, transitive)To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.

   “I could hear them quarreling upstairs, but didn’t really listen to their argument.”

   “Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.”

3. (transitive)To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.

   “Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?”

   “It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]””

4. (transitive)To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).

   “Eventually the king chose to hear her entreaties.”

5. (transitive)To receive information about; to come to learn of.

   “Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank […]”

6. To be contacted by.

   “I haven't heard from you in a while; how have you been?”

   “When I don't hear from you, My days feel long and lonely.”

   “They're ten hours overdue. Have you heard from any of them since they left Nineveh?”

   “She left and I never heard from her again.”

7. (transitive)To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.

   “Your case will be heard at the end of the month.”

8. (informal, transitive)To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.

   “You're tired of all the ads on TV? I hear ya.”

9. (Greek, transitive)To study under.

   “SPHÆRUS was of Bosphorus, he first heard Zeno, then Cleanthes, and having made a sufficient progresse in learning, went to Alexandria to Ptolomy Philopater […]”

   “Ammonius, the teacher of both Simplicius and Philoponus, tells us how Julian gave a ruling […] in favor of Maximus, who had heard Iamblichus, and followed him and Porphyry (in An. Pr. 31,15–22).”

   “Charmadas, never actually Head of School but a prominent Academic who had himself heard Carneades, was prepared to teach Plato’s Gorgias […]”

intj

1. you hear me

   “Y'all come back now, hear?”