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the organ of hearing and balance in higher vertebrates and of balance only in fishes. In man and other mammals it consists of three partsSee external ear See middle ear See internal ear

the outermost cartilaginous part of the ear (pinna) in mammals, esp man

the sense of hearing

sensitivity to musical sounds, poetic diction, etc

he has an ear for music

attention, esp favourable attention; consideration; heed (esp in the phrases give ear to, lend an ear)

an object resembling the external ear in shape or position, such as a handle on a jug

a display box at the head of a newspaper page, esp the front page, for advertisements, etcAlso called (esp Brit) earpiece

ear

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the part of a cereal plant, such as wheat or barley, that contains the seeds, grains, or kernels

(of cereal plants) to develop such parts

习惯用语: all ears very attentive; listening carefully; by ear without reading from written music; chew someone's ear to reprimand severely; fall on deaf ears to be ignored or pass unnoticed; have hard ears to be stubbornly disobedient; a flea in one's ear a sharp rebuke; have the ear of to be in a position to influence; in one ear and out the other heard but unheeded; keep one's ear to the ground to be or try to be well informed about current trends and opinions; have one's ear to the ground 同; make a pig's ear of to ruin disastrously; one's ears are burning one is aware of being the topic of another's conversation; out on one's ear dismissed unceremoniously; play by ear to act according to the demands of a situation rather than to a plan; improvise.to perform a musical piece on an instrument without written music; prick up one's ears to start to listen attentively; become interested; set by the ears to cause disagreement or commotion; a thick ear a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc; turn a deaf ear to be deliberately unresponsive; up to one's ears deeply involved, as in work or debt; wet behind the ears inexperienced; naive; immature