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A person who formally examines and verifies financial accounts.
🌱It seems impossible that so many banks could have gotten into so much trouble if their auditors had been doing their jobs. 🌳The auditing of a company's financial records by independent examiners on a regular basis is necessary to prevent "cooking the books," and thus to keep the company honest. We don't normally think of auditors as listening, since looking at and adding up numbers is their basic line of work, but auditors do have to listen to people's explanations, and perhaps that's the historical link. Hearing is more obviously part of another meaning of audit, the kind that college students do when they sit in on a class without taking exams or receiving an official grade. auditory 1、 Perceived or experienced through hearing.
2、 Of or relating to the sense or organs of hearing.
🌱With the "surround-sound" systems in most theaters, going to a movie is now an auditory experience as much as a visual one. 🌳Auditory is close in meaning to acoustic and acoustical, but auditory usually refers more to hearing than to sound. For instance, many dogs have great auditory （not acoustic） powers, and the auditory nerve lets us hear by connecting the inner ear to the brain. Acoustic and acoustical instead refer especially to instruments and the conditions under which sound can be heard; so architects concern themselves with the acoustic properties of an auditorium, and instrument makers with those of a clarinet or piano. audition A trial performance to evaluate a performer's skills.
🌱Auditions for Broadway shows attract so many hopeful unknown performers that everyone in the business calls them "cattle calls." 🌳Most stars are discovered at auditions, where a number of candidates read the same part and the director chooses. Lana Turner famously skipped the audition process and was instead discovered by an agent sipping a soda in a Sunset Boulevard café at age 16. Audition can also be a verb; so, for example, after Miss Turner gained her stardom, actors had to audition to be her leading man. But when musicians audition for a job in an orchestra, it's usually behind a screen so that the judges won't even know their sex and therefore can't do anything but listen. inaudible Not heard or capable of being heard.
🌱The coach spoke to her in a low voice that was inaudible to the rest of the gymnastics team. 🌳With its negative prefix in-, inaudible means the opposite of audible. What's clearly audible to you may be inaudible to your elderly grandfather. Modern spy technology can turn inaudible conversations into audible ones with the use of high-powered directional microphones, so if you think you're being spied on, make sure there's a lot of other noise around you. And if you don't want everyone around you to know you're bored, keep your sighs inaudible.
🌱It seems impossible that so many banks could have gotten into so much trouble if their auditors had been doing their jobs. 🌳The auditing of a company's financial records by independent examiners on a regular basis is necessary to prevent "cooking the books," and thus to keep the company honest. We don't normally think of auditors as listening, since looking at and adding up numbers is their basic line of work, but auditors do have to listen to people's explanations, and perhaps that's the historical link. Hearing is more obviously part of another meaning of audit, the kind that college students do when they sit in on a class without taking exams or receiving an official grade. auditory 1、 Perceived or experienced through hearing.
2、 Of or relating to the sense or organs of hearing.
🌱With the "surround-sound" systems in most theaters, going to a movie is now an auditory experience as much as a visual one. 🌳Auditory is close in meaning to acoustic and acoustical, but auditory usually refers more to hearing than to sound. For instance, many dogs have great auditory （not acoustic） powers, and the auditory nerve lets us hear by connecting the inner ear to the brain. Acoustic and acoustical instead refer especially to instruments and the conditions under which sound can be heard; so architects concern themselves with the acoustic properties of an auditorium, and instrument makers with those of a clarinet or piano. audition A trial performance to evaluate a performer's skills.
🌱Auditions for Broadway shows attract so many hopeful unknown performers that everyone in the business calls them "cattle calls." 🌳Most stars are discovered at auditions, where a number of candidates read the same part and the director chooses. Lana Turner famously skipped the audition process and was instead discovered by an agent sipping a soda in a Sunset Boulevard café at age 16. Audition can also be a verb; so, for example, after Miss Turner gained her stardom, actors had to audition to be her leading man. But when musicians audition for a job in an orchestra, it's usually behind a screen so that the judges won't even know their sex and therefore can't do anything but listen. inaudible Not heard or capable of being heard.
🌱The coach spoke to her in a low voice that was inaudible to the rest of the gymnastics team. 🌳With its negative prefix in-, inaudible means the opposite of audible. What's clearly audible to you may be inaudible to your elderly grandfather. Modern spy technology can turn inaudible conversations into audible ones with the use of high-powered directional microphones, so if you think you're being spied on, make sure there's a lot of other noise around you. And if you don't want everyone around you to know you're bored, keep your sighs inaudible.
AUD, from the Latin verb audire, is the root that has to do with hearing. What is audible can be heard. An audience is a group of listeners, sometimes seated in an auditorium.And audio today can mean almost anything that has to do with sound.🌸