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单词 auditory
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auditoryn.

Etymology: < Latin audītōrium (see auditorium n.). Sense 1, the earliest in English, was the latest in Latin.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈauditory.
1. An assembly of hearers, an audience.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > hearer or listener > assembly of
auditoryc1380
audiencea1387
auditurec1550
union1834
captive audience1902
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) III. 426 Nouþer wolde I graunte hit..byfore auditorie þat I trowed schulde be harmed þerby.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. C.vii Here is a learned auditorie. Yet for them that be vnlearned I wil expound it.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 135 He chose to preach to small auditories.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 525 A loud moan of sorrow rose from the whole auditory.
2. A place for hearing; the part of a building occupied by the audience; an auditorium.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > place of hearing or listening
auditory1548
audience1588
auditorium1854
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xiii. 2 (R.) The sande of the bancke and the bryncke of the bancke, made as though it were a rounde auditory.
1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 22 That Place we call Auditory, from our hearing therein.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Jan. 4/2 The stage is divided from the auditory by a solid brick wall.
3. A lecture-room; a philosophical school. Obsolete.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > lecture room
auditory1606
theatre1613
lecture-room1817
1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. G g v b His felow-scholers..taxed him, in the auditory, for not observing his word.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §36 Another scruple..much disputed in the Germane auditories . View more context for this quotation
1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. vii. 130 A provision, that he should..not suffer Ovid's Art of Love..to be studied in his auditory.
4. The office of an auditor of accounts. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > auditor
auditor1377
controllera1400
opposera1483
comptrollera1552
auditory1623
1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) vi. xlvi. 160/1 The Count also of priuate reuenewes had his Rationall or Auditory of priuate State in Britain: to say nothing..of other officers of inferiour degrees.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

auditoryadj.

/ˈɔːdɪtəri/
Etymology: < Latin audītōrius pertaining to hearing or hearers, < audītor : see auditor n. and -ory suffix2.
1.
a. Pertaining to the sense or organs of hearing; received by the ear.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [adjective] > relating to hearing
auditory1578
auditive1611
acroamatic1632
acoustic1635
audituala1652
acousticonc1660
auditorial1859
audile1897
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 10 That part of the temple bones, where the auditorie hole is sited.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 253 Three small bones in the Auditory Organ..Incus, Malleus, and Stapes. View more context for this quotation
c1724 J. Swift Answer Delany in Wks. (1735) II. 304 From each Ear, as he observes, There creeps two Auditory Nerves.
1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 35 139 A habit of attending to auditory ideas.
b. in combinations.
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1936 J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. iii. 32 Comparative grammar deals with auditory-vocal mass phenomena abstracted from the linguistic adjustments of the persons using such languages.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. iii. 59 The term ‘consonant’..is..an auditory-articulatory label.
2. Belonging to the auditorium of a theatre, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [adjective]
auditory1740
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber ix. 184 If the auditory Part were a little more reduc'd to the Model of that in Drury-Lane.

Compounds

auditory meatus n. = external auditory meatus n. at external adj. 1b.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > canals
burr1573
meatus1615
scala1712
Fallopian canal1877
external auditory meatus1893
porion1916
auditory meatus1920
1920 H. H. Wilder Lab. Man. Anthropometry 47 Porion, the uppermost point in the margin of the auditory meatus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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