You can picture ear as the organ on the side of your head that catches sound. Almost everything the word does grows from that one picture: because the ear is how we take in what's said, it stands in for listening, attention, being trusted to hear someone out, and a knack for catching musical or spoken sounds. (One separate sense — the ear of corn — is a different old word that just happens to share the spelling.)
From the word’s history
The body-part ear comes from Old English ēare; the 'ear of corn' comes from a separate Old English word ēar. They are unrelated words that fell together in spelling, which is why the corn sense does not radiate from the hearing organ.
身體部位的 ear 來自古英語 ēare；「穀穗」的 ear 則來自另一個古英語字 ēar。兩者本是無關的字，只是拼法後來合而為一，所以「穗」那一義並非從聽覺器官引申而來。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entries 'ear (n.1)' and 'ear (n.2)'
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原始詞典資料19 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
earnoun詞源 1/ˈɪə̯/
- 1
The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- 2
The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- 3
slangA police informant.
- No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.
- 4
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
- a good ear for music
- songs[…]not all ungrateful to thine ear
- 5
The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
- Dionysius[…]would give no ear to his suit.
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
- 6
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
- the ears of a tub, skillet, or dish; The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.
- When they got as far as the little valley north of Oppenhagen - where the land-slip took place - he thought he sat between the ears of a bucket; but shortly this vanished also, and it was only then he really came to himself again.
- 7
architectureAn acroterium.
- 8
architectureA crossette.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
journalismmediaA space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
- In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).
- 10
bakingcookingfoodA curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
- 11
businessclothingfashionThe outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
- 12
graph-theorymathematicssciencesA path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
earverb詞源 1/ˈɪə̯/
- 1
To take in with the ears; to hear.
- I eared her language.
- 2
To hold by the ears.
- Sometimes, the helper eared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold.
- The general technique was to rope the horse around the neck, and, while one or two men eared the horse down (held him by the ears), the rider saddled the animal and stepped above him.
earnoun詞源 2/ˈɪə̯/
- 1
The fruiting body of a grain plant.
- He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
earverb詞源 2/ˈɪə̯/
- 1
To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
- This corn ears well.
earverb詞源 3/ˈɪə̯/
- 1
archaicTo plough.
- That power I have, discharge; and let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow, For I have none.
- And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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- estimated average requirements
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