Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective perceptible by the ear. Opposite of
inaudible .
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- adjective That can be
heard ;audible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective heard or perceptible by the ear
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Examples
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Julieta Venegas 'newest album, "Sí", is surprisingly "hearable" - clear and simple lyrics, fairly well enunciated throughout.
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I added subtitles to it since the audio might not be that "hearable" and the text didn't really appear well while recording.
WN.com - Articles related to Reliance Industries to push into power and telecom 2010
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I added subtitles to it since the audio might not be that "hearable" and the text didn't really appear well while recording.
WN.com - Articles related to Reliance Industries to push into power and telecom 2010
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Or on the first panicky glance at the vast hall that once was crowded, the barely hearable gasp and soft stumble of the one beside you?
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Or on the first panicky glance at the vast hall that once was crowded, the barely hearable gasp and soft stumble of the one beside you?
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In case any of that has gone lost on his audience, he has taken to collaborating with Bon Iver and covering Joni Mitchell both hearable on a new EP called "Enough Thunder".
The Pop Scene: Running Down a Dubstep Dream Andy Battaglia 2011
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The song was made up not only of words and hearable melody but the melody of motion, in which everyone, whether they could hear sounds or not, participated.
Rabbi Steve Gutow: The Earth And The People- The Work Left For Us 2010
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I could not care less about buying the stuff Starbucks is peddling, be it edible, drinkable or hearable … everything is unbearable
Hi Apple? I’d like an iPhone, but hold the phone. | Sync Blog 2007
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When the messanger of the risen sun, (see other oriel) shall give to every seeable a hue and to every hearable a cry and to each spectacle his spot and to each happening her houram.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Inventor Jose Hernandez-Rebollar has invented an electronic glove that transforms American Sign Language hand-gestures into readable or hearable text, to help deaf people communicate more easily with hearing folks.
Boing Boing 2003
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The Guardian, February 2015:
March 4, 2015
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hearable, n. usually plural
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, January 2015:
April 18, 2015