bend an ear
俯首帖耳,俯首贴耳,俯首听命,侧耳倾听
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Definitions
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- : the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- : the external ear alone: The hat completely covers his ears.
- : the sense of hearing: sounds that are pleasing to the ear.
- : keen or sensitive perception of the differences of sound, especially sensitiveness to the quality and correctness of musical sounds: an ear for music; a violinist with a good ear.
- : attention; heed: to gain a person's ear.
- : any part that resembles or suggests an ear in position or form, as the handle of a teacup.
- : Architecture. crossette.
- : Journalism. a small box in either upper corner of a newspaper page, usually the front page or split page, containing the name of or a symbol for the edition, a weather bulletin, a slogan, or the like.
- : Furniture. a decorative feature at the upper end of a leg.one of the decorative features at each end of a crest rail.
- : ears, Slang. earphones.
- : ear tuft.
Phrases
- early bird catches the worm
- early on
- early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
- earn one's keep
- earn one's stripes
- ears are burning, one's
- ear to the ground, have one's
- all ears
- believe one's ears
- bend someone's ear
- can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear
- coming out of one's ears
- cute as a button (bug's ear)
- fall on deaf ears
- flea in one's ear
- have someone's ear
- in one ear and out the other
- lend one's ear
- music to one's ears
- out on one's ear
- pin someone's ears back
- play by ear
- prick up one's ears
- put a bug in someone's ear
- turn a deaf ear
- up to one's ears
- walls have ears
- wet behind the ears
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
With each bite, my ears rang with that satisfying crunch and my mouth grew drier.
To be able to do that, you need incredible practice and a great ear.
It also has adjustable strings to fit around a person’s ears.
It’s also working on a smaller HomePod and the first pair of Apple-branded over ear headphones for release as early as later this year.
Among a comprehensive product refresh in the fall, Apple is also preparing a new iPad Air with an edge-to-edge iPad Pro-like screen, two new Apple Watch versions and its first over-ear headphones outside the Beats brand.
“Jeffrey wanted me to tell you that you looked so pretty,” the female voice said into my disbelieving ear.
In an act of corporal punishment that we at the Daily Beast do not condone, Joseph grabbed Him by the ear and “pulled hard.”
And in his view, they may be good at policy but have “a deaf ear when it comes to politics.”
Worse, when Richman woke up the next morning, her entire ear was purple.
She had low-grade blood poisoning in her ear from the pin she used to pierce it.
When we were mounted Mac leaned over and muttered an admonitory word for Piegan's ear alone.
What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
The worst loss is that of Winston's ear; high principles won't obtain high explosives.
He looked up, half shutting his one funny eye, and cocking one ear up, and letting the other droop down.
Motionless she stood, straining eye and ear; she could hear nothing, but the gestures told much.