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单词 listen-out
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listen-out
a. The action or an act of listening; a spell of listening or attentive hearing. Also listen-out (after look-out). Chiefly in on or upon the listen: in the act of listening.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > listening
hearkeningc1000
hearinga1225
listening13..
audiencec1405
earc1503
harking1530
exaudition1617
auscultation1634
listen1788
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [adverb] > listening
on or upon the listen1788
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [adjective] > listening attentively
listeninga1275
attending1599
whole-eared1681
on or upon the listen1788
wide-eared1866
ear-bending1912
1788 ‘Aspasia’ in Amer. Museum iv. 565 Every time the door opens, or a foot is on the stairs, you are on the listen.
1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. 151 They are always upon the listen in this house.
1807 tr. Three Germans I. 6 Not the faintest..sound..reached their attentive listen.
1807 tr. Three Germans II. 30 He remained upon the silent listen.
1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. xii. 255 The anxious listen, the wistful look, and the dropping tear, of the disconsolate dams.
1834 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 36 729 They were alarmed, as they kept a listen-out, by an incessant barking.
1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 397 Mrs. Hawkey is..clearing her throat for a long talk, myself settled down..for a long listen.
1884 G. M. Fenn Sweet Mace II. xiii. 223 She was often on the watch, and always on the listen.
1935 World-Radio 5 July 9/1 People like me, who..are constantly on the listen with half an ear for something.
1968 J. Philips Hot Summer Killing (1969) iii. ii. 138 Take a listen while I try to find Jerry.
1968 C. Watson Charity ends at Home x. 122 So what I did was to pull off to the side and have a proper listen under the lid.
1970 P. Bair Tribunal ii. i. 60 ‘Did you have a nice talk?’ ‘I had a long listen.’
1971 It 2 June 19/3 Give it a listen.
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