listen

If you listen to someone who is talking or to a sound, you give your attention to them or it. He spent his time listening to the radio Sonia was not listening. + listener listeners lis·ten·er One or two listeners had fallen asleep while the President was speaking

hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello" listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision

You say listen when you want someone to pay attention to you because you are going to say something important. Listen, I finish at one. = look. a listen an act of listening

If you listen for a sound, you keep alert and are ready to hear it if it occurs. We listen for footsteps approaching They're both asleep upstairs, but you don't mind listening just in case of trouble, do you? Listen out means the same as listen. I didn't really listen out for the lyrics

To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey

listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision

pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men"

To attend to

To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend

hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello"

{f} try to hear something; pay careful attention to one who is speaking; obey, heed

If you listen to someone, you do what they advise you to do, or you believe them. Anne, you need to listen to me this time When I asked him to stop, he would not listen

listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"

listen in

To eavesdrop; to listen secretly

You should close the door for conversations like that. You never know who might be listening in.

listen in

To listen without participating

We invite you to listen in to our radio broadcast.

listen up

To listen closely; to pay attention. Often used in the imperative

I'm only gonna say this once, so listen up.

listen in

If you listen in to a private conversation, you secretly listen to it. He assigned federal agents to listen in on Martin Luther King's phone calls. = eavesdrop

listen in

listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations"

listen in

listen quietly, without contributing to the conversation listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations

listen in

listen quietly, without contributing to the conversation

listen in

eavesdrop, listen to someone else's conversation

listened

Simple past tense and past participle of listen

listener

A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler

listener

Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast

listening

Present participle of listen

listening

Action of the verb to listen

You can learn a lot from grandparents by listening.

listener

{n} one who hearkens through curiosity

{v} hark!

Tom loved singing. However, no one wanted to listen to him sing. - Tom loved singing. However, nobody wanted to listen to him sing.

Tom seems to be unwilling to listen to anything Mary says. - Tom doesn't seem to be willing to listen to anything Mary says.

listened

past of listen

listener

In the JDK, a class that receives and handles events

listener

A special TCP/IP socket that is dedicated to "listening" for incoming TCP/IP connection requests at a specific port number

listener

When you "listen" to a course, or register without receiving credit or a grade, attendance is required but class participation is not

listener

(Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) [definition #2] (Data Guard Concepts and Administration) [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide) [definition #4] (Real Application Clusters Concepts) [definition #5] (Real Application Clusters Real Application Clusters Guard I - Concepts and Administration) [definition #6] (SNMP Support Reference Guide) [definition #7] (XML Developer's Kits Guide - XDK)

listener

[BSG] The user-ring program that loops reading a line of input from the user and submitting it to the command processor The listener, or "command level", is accessed via the switchable API cu_$cl (you can install your own listener), and is called whenever command level is "pushed" by an error (compare Unix behavior) as well as at process start-up Hence, one can investigate blowups with debuggers, or even change variables and type start ("%") Note that the job discipline is a stack, not a ring of equals as in Unix

listener

The portion of the Web Application Server that receives HTTP requests You can use the Oracle Web Application Server Manager to create multiple Web Listener processes and assign each to accept connections on a different set of ports

listener

Listeners are used by various Q classes The client code subclasses a particular listener, adds it to the Q object to subscribe to events on that interface and implements the required methods to handle the events See also: KeyboardListener, ApplicationListener, MouseListener P01, P02

listener

The component of PrinterOn Focus that communicates with the Internet Listener accepts print requests from the Internet For print requests to be delivered to a printer, Director is required

listener

The definition of who is a listener is based on a 'rule of dominance' That is, if a person spends 8 minutes or more of a specified quarter-hour tuned to a particular radio station they are defined as a listener to that station for that entire quarter-hour

listener

someone who listens attentively

listener

A Propositional Theory can have any number of Listeners A Transition System can have any number of Listeners

listener

A listener is a person who listens to the radio or to a particular radio programme. I'm a regular listener to her show

listener

A user-created class that implements one of a set of listener interfaces, each of which receives one or more types of events generated by a job or task

listener

If you describe someone as a good listener, you mean that they listen carefully and sympathetically to you when you talk, for example about your problems. Dr Brian was a good listener If you can be a sympathetic listener, it may put your own problems in perspective. see also listen

listener

An interface designed to receive a specific type of event from a specific component

listener

An architectural element of the COM+ Queued Components service The listener is a COM object that opens the message queue associated with its host application and waits for messages to arrive As messages arrive, the listener dispatches threads that process messages See also COM+ Queued Components, message mover, player, recorder

listener

(SNMP Support Reference Guide)

listener

(Enterprise Manager SNMP Support Reference Guide; search in this book)

listener

The Oracle Listener is a process listening for incoming database connections This process is only needed on the database server side The listener is controlled via the "lsnrctl" utility Configuration is done via the LISTENER ORA file

listener

This is an object that you attach to a widget, for example, a button It listens for events that happen to that widget and contains code to take some action based on that event For example, the listener for a button on a GUI will contain code to do the work associated with that button when the user presses the GUI button In Java, listeners implement the public interface java util EventListener

listener

One who listens; a hearkener

listener

- The peer that awaits incoming connection requests

listener

{i} one who listens; one who hears; one who pays attention, attentive person

listener

A GPIB device that receives device dependent messages from a talker

listener

The server process that listens for and accepts incoming connection requests from client applications Oracle listener processes start up Oracle database processes to handle subsequent communications with the client

the act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing"

listening

{i} attempt hear something; act of paying careful attention to one who is speaking

listening

attending to or alert for sound; "be wary of listening ears"; "government-maintained listening posts

listening

Of something that listens, or is used in order to listen

listening

{s} of paying attention by hearing

listenings

plural of listening

listens

third-person singular of listen

refused to listen

declined to listen, closed his ears

listen

Hyphenation

lis·ten

Turkish pronunciation

lîsın

Synonyms

attend, give ear, hark, hear, heed, list, mind, note, pay attention, await, anticipate, expect, wait for, obey, accept

Antonyms

ignore, disobey, disregard, speak, talk

Pronunciation

/ˈləsən/ /ˈlɪsən/

Etymology

() From Middle English listnen, from Old English hlysnan, from Proto-Germanic *hlusinon (compare German lauschen), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Akin to Old Irish rochluiniur 'I hear', Latin clueō (“I am famous”), Ancient Greek κλαίω (klaiō, “I make known, famous”), κλέος (kleos, “report, rumor, repute”), Old Armenian լամ (lam, “I cry, weep”), Albanian qaj, qanj (“to cry, weep”), Old Church Slavonic слути (sluti, “to speak clearly”), слѹшати (slušati, “to hear”), Lithuanian klausau 'to hear', Middle Persian (srod, “hearing, sound”), Sanskrit श्रु (śru, “to hear”). More at loud.