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532; electronic devices [devices for recording and reproducing recorded sound],<br />

phonograph, gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon † .<br />

[device to convert sound to electrical signals] microphone, directional microphone,<br />

mike, hand mike, lapel microphone.<br />

[devices to convert recorded sound to electronic signals] phonograph needle, stylus,<br />

diamond stylus, pickup; reading head (electronic devices).<br />

hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper, listener-in.<br />

auditory, audience.<br />

[science of hearing] otology, otorhinolaryngology.<br />

[physicians specializing in hearing] otologist, otorhinolaryngologist.<br />

V. hear, overhear; hark, harken; list, listen, pay attention, take heed; give an ear, lend an<br />

ear, bend an ear; catch, catch a sound, prick up one's ears; give ear, give a hearing, give<br />

audience to.<br />

hang upon the lips of, be all ears, listen with both ears.<br />

become audible; meet the ear, fall upon the ear, catch the ear, reach the ear; be heard;<br />

ring in the ear &c (resound) 408.<br />

Adj. hearing &c v.; auditory, auricular, acoustic; phonic.<br />

Adv. arrectis auribus [Lat.].<br />

Int. hark, hark ye!, hear!, list, listen!, O yes!, Oyez!, listen up [Coll.]; listen here!, hear<br />

ye!, attention!, achtung [G.].<br />

419. Deafness -- N. deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity † ; inaudibility, inaudibleness † .<br />

V. be deaf &c adj.; have no ear; shut one's ears, stop one's ears, close one's ears; turn a<br />

deaf ear to.<br />

render deaf, stun, deafen.<br />

Adj. deaf, earless † , surd; hard of hearing, dull of hearing; deaf-mute, stunned, deafened;<br />

stone deaf; deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, deaf as a beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker † .<br />

inaudible, out of hearing.<br />

Phr. hear no evil.<br />

(6) Light<br />

(i) LIGHT IN GENERAL<br />

420. Light -- N. light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam;<br />

aurora.<br />

day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight &c<br />

(luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday<br />

sun.<br />

glow &c v.; glimmering &c v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence,<br />

lambent flame.<br />

flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.

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