Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By means of the ear or of audition; in an auditory manner.
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- adverb Pertaining to
sound or theear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with regard to sound or the ear
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Examples
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It seems to me that what classical musicians learn aurally is largely rhythmic and timbral, which is a different proposition than being expected to learn a series of pitches by ear.
All your compliments and your cutting remarks / Are captured here in my quotation marks Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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I know just what you mean about not liking these events because of having to take them in aurally — I’m not a good listener at all and need to see something to make sense of it, so I’m often bored.
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I don’t go to many of these kinds of gathering because I find it immensely hard to take things in aurally.
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This percussive moment is very aurally satisfying, although musically short-lived, as Chöying Drolma then resumes her solo with acoustic guitar accompaniment.
Ravenna Michalsen: Buddhist Songs About Cho And Machik Labdron Ravenna Michalsen 2011
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This percussive moment is very aurally satisfying, although musically short-lived, as Chöying Drolma then resumes her solo with acoustic guitar accompaniment.
Ravenna Michalsen: Buddhist Songs About Cho And Machik Labdron Ravenna Michalsen 2011
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For example, I am on the board of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, and I imagine this technology could be used to deliver content, especially more current content -- aurally -
Jeff Jarvis: Davos 2011: Too Little Content Jeff Jarvis 2011
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Mr. Castaneda especially fits the profile of a DjangoFest guest because he with remarkable speed and skill, and because he's best experienced visually as well as aurally.
Ringing in the American Revolution Will Friedwald 2011
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The video is both visually and aurally indicative of experimentation -- and of a young woman who isn't afraid of embracing it, either.
Lydia Hughes: Lykke Li: Providing the Soundtrack to Your Life Lydia Hughes 2011
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But I was listening to Daphnis et Chloe the other night, and I could kind of hear the modulatory point — at any given time, you know aurally what key Ravel is in, but there's far less ability to predict where he's headed next.
Mod squad Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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For example, I am on the board of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, and I imagine this technology could be used to deliver content, especially more current content -- aurally -
Jeff Jarvis: Davos 2011: Too Little Content Jeff Jarvis 2011
Jimmydiamond commented on the word aurally
Listen , it's simple... hear ,ear , aural not oral.
February 11, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word aurally
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Maid with golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.
February 11, 2013