Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an electronic device which amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an electronic device that amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing
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Examples
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I thought all these people were extras from Startrek - or maybe they were wearing some sort of trendy deaf-aid.
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Cambridge, who was helping her with research for The Knox Brothers, she described the house party to her daughter: a trendy cleric, his dull wife, a long-skirted daughter, going up to read English at Hertford, who evidently hadn't wanted to come, and Henry James's manservant (still living in Rye, but with a deaf-aid which had to be plugged into the skirting) ... contributing in a loud, shrill voice remarks like 'Mr Henry was a heavy man - nearly 16 stone - it was a job for him to push his bicycle uphill' - in the middle of all the other conversation wh: he couldn't hear.
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