adjectiveUpper-intermediate

auditory

US

/ˈɔːdəˌtɔːri/

UK

/ˈɔːdɪtəri/

Meaning

Related to hearing or to the way people receive and process sounds.

सुनने या आवाज़ों को ग्रहण करने और समझने की प्रक्रिया से संबंधित।

Examples

“The auditory system helps the brain interpret sounds from the environment.”

auditory systemscience

“The app uses auditory signals to warn drivers without distracting them visually.”

auditory signalstechnology

“The alarm produced an audible tone that everyone in the room could hear.”

audible toneeveryday

Useful patterns

auditory + noun: auditory system, auditory signalauditory processing of sounds or speechauditory response to a soundauditory and visual information

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Word family

audible(adjective)
audibly(adverb)
audibility(noun)

Common collocations

auditory systemauditory cortexauditory processingauditory perceptionauditory memoryauditory signalauditory stimulus

Common mistakes

Not natural: The auditory of this recording is poor.

Better: The audio of this recording is poor.

Auditory is an adjective; use the noun audio to refer to recorded sound.

Auditory adjective है; रिकॉर्ड की गई आवाज़ के लिए noun audio इस्तेमाल करें।

Not natural: She has strong auditory.

Better: She has strong auditory memory.

Auditory describes a noun, so it needs a noun such as memory or processing after it.

Auditory किसी noun का वर्णन करता है, इसलिए इसके बाद memory या processing जैसा noun चाहिए।

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Synonyms

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auralhearing-relatedsound-relatedacoustic

Learner tip

Auditory describes something related to hearing; audible means that something can actually be heard.

Auditory सुनने से जुड़ी चीज़ बताता है; audible का मतलब है कि कोई आवाज़ सचमुच सुनाई दे सकती है।

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What does auditory most commonly describe?

Auditory आम तौर पर किस चीज़ का वर्णन करता है?