shadowing

English

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Etymology

From shadow (verb) +‎ -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; or forming present participles of verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃædəʊɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃædoʊɪŋ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ædəʊɪŋ
• Hyphenation: sha‧dow‧ing

Noun

shadowing (countable and uncountable, plural shadowings)

1. The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
2. The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
3. (espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
4. A faint representation; an adumbration.
   • 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture:

     There are […] in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity.

5. (computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
6. (education) A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.

Derived terms

• work shadowing

Translations

effect of being shadowed, as from a light source or radio transmission

Finnish: varjostuminen French: effet de masque m

speech repetition

Chinese: Mandarin: 鸚鵡學舌 / 鹦鹉学舌 (zh) (yīngwǔ xuéshé), 跟讀 / 跟读 (gēndú) Finnish: kuullun toistaminen German: Schattenlesen n Japanese: シャドーイング (shadōingu), シャドウイング (shadouingu) Russian: шэ́доуинг m (šɛ́douing) Turkish: gölgeleme tekniği

learning about a job as a shadow to a competent worker

Finnish: varjostaminen (fi) French: observation (fr) f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can Roman: hospitiranje n Spanish: observar (es)

Verb

shadowing

1. present participle and gerund of shadow

Further reading

• “shadowing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.