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Meanings of over-ear headphones in English

Russian
головные телефоны
Portuguese
fone
Spanish
casco
Catalan
auricular
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Small loudspeakers worn on the head for listening to music or for communications purpose; may have speakers for one or both ears, attached to the head by a band.

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головные телефоны
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Examples for "headphones"
Examples for "headphones"
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It's also best to watch the event while wearing headphones, if possible.
The South African
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Perhaps the bottom line with both these headphones is deliver great sound.
Wired
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Brookstone's stores allow shoppers to test products such as massagers and headphones.
Reuters
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Patrons do, however, have to provide their own headphones for sanitary reasons.
Wired
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Listen, way before I ever started reviewing headphones I was using them.
Wired
1
They sound very good for a set of Bluetooth on-ear headphones under £200.
The Guardian
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Beats' new Solo Pro is the company's first on-ear headphones with adaptive noise canceling.
Wired
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They are on-ear headphones, meaning they sit directly on your ear, not around it.
The Guardian
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The integrated on-ear headphones might not look like much, but they deliver shockingly good sound.
Wired
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But, like most on-ear headphones they pinched my ears, even slightly more than some others.
The Guardian
Usage of over-ear headphones in English
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The code also contained two icons for a pair of over-ear headphones.
News.com.au
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It's not miraculous; there's no beating Bose or Sony over-ear headphones on a plane.
The Verge
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But Apple has never made a pair of over-ear headphones with its own branding before.
News.com.au
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That's why I think wireless over-ear headphones with noise canceling are the best solution for everyday listening.
Wired
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They tick all the right boxes: comfortable, over-ear headphones that cut out more noise than Sony's previous products.
The Irish Times
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For larger over-ear headphones, they're quite wearable for long periods of time no matter where you happen to hang.
Wired
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There's also the chance that a cheaper, smaller HomePod-style gadget shows up, or maybe the rumored Apple-branded over-ear headphones.
The Verge
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Part of the reason I like over-ear headphones is that my ears are usually too small for regular earphones.
The Irish Times
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I'd put its new hi-res noise cancelling over-ear headphones right next to them in terms of value and surprising performance.
Wired
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The pads do tend to get warm after extended sessions, like most larger over-ear headphones, and they're definitely made to use at home.
Wired
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After sporting Focal's Listen over-ear headphones for a few weeks, there's no way I'm going back to a normal, dowdy pair of cans.
Wired
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Whether the icon is for a new set of over-ear headphones with the Apple brand or for Beats headphones still remains to be seen.
News.com.au
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Tech giant Apple is rumoured to be working on a pair of over-ear headphones that new leaks suggest will be the smartest we've ever seen.
News.com.au
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The New York company first made a splash five years ago with its MH40 over-ear headphones that it modeled after a mid-20th-century design.
Wired
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The PX7 are large, over-ear headphones but they manage their 310g weight and bulk well, not feeling too heavy or cumbersome on the head.
The Guardian