Listening and Standard

Listening

Listening noun - The act of hearing attentively.

Standard and listening are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Standard" instead a noun "Listening".

Nearby Words: listen, listened, listener

Standard

Standard noun - Something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared.

Listening and standard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Listening" instead a noun "Standard".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Loud of War In Fable, the Hero is tortured by listening to the warden read homegrown poetry, which all the other characters treat as worse than the standard whips and chains in the real torture chamber.
    Source: Loud of War
  • He Knows About Timed Hits This is, however, an avoidance of the trope, as listening to the background noise while the text instructions come up on the HUD allows you to hear standard martial arts training.
  • In the Knight and Rogue Series this becomes the standard reaction to Fisk's jokes by the third book, either because Michael has been listening to him compare things to bandits for almost two years by this point, or because he meets people who've had their professions compared to bandits before.
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