{
  "id": "heard.auditory",
  "term": "heard",
  "sense": "auditory",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "heard",
  "domain": "auditory",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to receive a sound",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sound.auditory",
      "auditory.sensory",
      "receive.communication"
    ],
    "interaction": "when sound moves and auditory receives it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sound reception",
      "auditory input",
      "reception event"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico detected faint radio waves from pulsar PSR B1919+21 in 1967.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "A bat's echolocation call at 45 kHz is registered by its auditory cortex during night flight.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1977 'Wow!' signal was recorded by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "receive.communication",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "sound.auditory",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "talk.spoken"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "hear",
    "heard",
    "hearing",
    "hears"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added receive.communication to components, as reception is constitutive and not present in definition's components. Definition remained accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heard.auditory"
}