单词 | auditory |
释义 | auditoryn. 1. An assembly of hearers, an audience. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 1. a. Pertaining to the sense or organs of hearing; received by the ear. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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