audition
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6.1
- noun
- /ɔːˈdɪʃən/
- Specialized
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audición
- I know my audition is tomorrow, but I practiced all day.
Mammals like like rodents use scent and they also use hearing audition and that little bit of vision.
- Mammals like like rodents use scent and they also use hearing audition and that little bit of vision.
- And in the cortex you have different regions of the cortex that are responsible for vision, for audition, for motor control, for language.
- Hostages, the lineaments of winds, putative witness worn away My eyes, ears, eyes, audition.
Examples
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I got this audition to be the local weather girl.
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I actually have an audition first thing in the morning.
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Did you have to go to that audition?
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This will not be good enough for your audition!
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I have to buy Harper a dress for the audition.
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She cannot wear a cocktail dress to the audition.
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What about my audition?
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Saturday is Harper's audition.
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The child's audition allows her to enjoy music and understand sounds around her.
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Through audition, we can differentiate between various musical notes and sounds.
Synonyms
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2.3
The skill of noticing and understanding sounds like music or speech
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1.0
The ability to notice sounds
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2.3
The ability to hear sounds
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3.7
To hear sounds with your ears
The ability to hear sounds through the ears
Compounds
How Good
Surface Forms
Etymology
Audition comes from the Latin audire, meaning 'to hear', and one use of the word is simply the power of hearing. So a person's audition is their ability to hear sounds.