listening
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Synonyms: glistening, listenin, blistering, glistering, lightening, fastening, lessening, listing, hastening, listenings, listen in
Antonyms: glistening, listenin, blistering, glistering, lightening, fastening, lessening, listing, hastening, listenings, listen in
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Adjective
- Of something or someone that listens.
- Any listening person can tell she's lying.
- Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear.
- He could hear better when he used his listening device.
- Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.
Verb
- present participle and gerund of listen
Noun
- An act by which something or somebody is listened to.
- This symphony grows on me more and more with each listening.
- An educational exercise involving listening.
- OK, students, today we're going to do a couple of listenings about the environment, then a reading about crime.
- Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language.
- You can improve your listening well by watching English-language films.
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