hear correctly
Frequency: 6.812.0 per million words
to hear and understand something accurately.
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Examples (10)
- ‘Sheep?’ It sounded so unlikely that Sally did not think she could have heard correctly.
- With the new hearing aids, he can finally hear correctly.
- Did I hear you correctly? Are you really moving to Japan?
- Please speak clearly so that the court stenographer can hear you correctly.
- If you don't hear the instructions correctly, you might assemble the furniture the wrong way.
- I wasn't sure if I had heard the announcement correctly over the loud speaker.
- The system will need to be calibrated to ensure the microphone can hear commands correctly.
- It's hard to hear correctly on this noisy phone line.
- I need you to listen carefully and make sure you hear this correctly: the meeting is cancelled.
- She claimed she didn't hear the warning correctly because of the music.