to hear (in various senses)

1. to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf

2. to hear

a. to attend to, consider what is or has been said

b. to understand, perceive the sense of what is said

3. to hear something

a. to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence

b. to get by hearing learn

c. a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn

d. to give ear to a teaching or a teacher

e. to comprehend, to understand