How to pronounce“ear”in English
verbNo, we like your competitors instead; we’re doing business with them.” One of the things I always tell salespeople is that it’s important to not turn a deaf
ear or ignore that “no,” because it’s important to understand why.
If we think about, “No, I don’t want to spend time with you,” or “No, I don’t buy what you’re saying,” that response says that the insight we’re trying to use
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Definitions of “ear”
The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
“Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.”
To take in with the ears; to hear.
“I eared her language.”
To hold by the ears.
“Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold.”
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