Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having ears or earlike projections.
- adjective Having a specified kind or number of ears. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having ears or awns, as grain.
- Having ears; having appendages or processes resembling the external ear.
- In ornithology, having conspicuous auricular feathers, as the eared grebe, or having plumicorns, as various species of eared owls.
- In Mammalia, auriculate; having large or peculiar outer ears, as certain bats; having outer ears in a group of animals others of which have them not: as, the eared seals.
- In botany, same as
auriculate , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.
- adjective (Zoöl.) an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the
long-eared owl , andshort-eared owl . - adjective (Zoöl.) any seal of the family
Otariidæ , including the fur seals and hair seals. SeeSeal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective in combination Having some
specific type ofear . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down
- adjective having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination
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Examples
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Its content features 256 Kbps recording density, which is perceivable even for tin eared music fans like myself, and was quite unique in this market arena where 128 Kbs is dominant, with a few 192 Kbps recording.
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One of only two "eared" owls in our region of the state, these little nocturnal mouse traps frequent the same wooded environs as the large great horned owl.
unknown title 2009
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One of only two "eared" owls in our region of the state, these little nocturnal mouse traps frequent the same wooded environs as the large great horned owl.
unknown title 2009
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An old Quran is no less holy than a shiny new one, even though the old one's dirty and dog-eared.
Dr. David Liepert: Muslims, The Quran And The Importance Of Understanding Symbols Of Faith Dr. David Liepert 2011
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Jane, my original copy is looking a little dog-eared, but I'm one of those people who likes her books to look loved!
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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They'd go well with a splash of chili oil and a dog-eared copy of Good Omens.
FRIDAY; Or, This Week in Queries, With Albatrosses, Demonic, For the Use of 2010
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(I have heard some Internet blowhards attempting to expound on what they apparently see as an inherently right-wing traditionalist heavy metal philosophy, but I am fairly sure this is simply the result of a few too many hours spent feverishly masturbating over their dog-eared copy of Lords Of Chaos.)
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Between the dubious and predatory business model and Cordish's "reputation for hardball negotiating and tin-eared community relations," the city should be laughing the Blazers brass right out of City Hall with this one.
The next Portland "urban renewal" disaster: the Rose Quarter (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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And yeah, I'll add to that you failed your own generation by no being radical enough or tying the left to some dog eared proto-marxism.
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He was actually me from ten years ago: scarf, dog-eared book, shoes a little scuffed.
Associated Writing W.F. Lantry 2011
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