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# earpiece

«earpiece» in Mova's school dictionary: **The part of a phone, headphones or other device that you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an earpiece, earpieces)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The part of a phone, headphones or other device that you hold to or put in your ear to hear sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#m1)

2) A tiny speaker worn in the ear, used by security guards, TV presenters or with hearing aids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#m2)

3) One of the arms of a pair of glasses that rest over the ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, people use earpieces for phone calls or music; security guards and TV presenters wear earpieces to hear instructions. In science, the earpiece of a stethoscope goes in the doctor's ears. Phrases: «a wireless earpiece», «speak into the earpiece».

### examples

- The security guard listened to his earpiece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#x1)
- The newsreader heard the producer through her earpiece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#x2)
- My earpiece fell out when I was running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#x3)
- The doctor put the stethoscope earpieces in her ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#x4)
- One earpiece of my glasses is bent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#x5)
- Dad uses an earpiece to talk on the phone while driving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/#x6)

### note

Countable compound noun: ear + piece. Uses «an» before it: an earpiece. Safety: keep the volume low to protect hearing, and do not wear both ears covered when crossing roads.

### In the corpora

- [Breakfast-show presenters are paid professionals working from a running order and an earpiece; the friendly chat is planned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «earpiece» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earpiece/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.