Headphones

Quick meaning: Headphones is a noun meaning A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.

Meaning

A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.

Example Sentences

My headphones / They saved my life / Your tape / It lulled me to sleep

Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.

Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.

Toward the end of the film Nazu rushes into her bedroom, clamps on headphones and listens to the technopoppy "I Wanna Be Free." The picturization shows her moving convulsively, desperately to the funky beat, turning ever more agitated, until we wonder what she wants to be free from: free from her domestic vise, or free from life?

Word Forms

• headphone

Synonyms for headphones

Depending on context, synonyms include heads.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include earpiece, earphone, phone, earphones, headset, phones.

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