Crossword clues for shadowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shadowing \Shad"ow*ing\, n.
Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading.
--Feltham.-
A faint representation; an adumbration.
There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity.
--Tylor.
Shadow \Shad"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shadowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Shadowing.] [OE. shadowen, AS. sceadwian. See adow, n.]
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To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground.
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To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.]
Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host.
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To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
Shadowing their right under your wings of war.
--Shak. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
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To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.
Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas.
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To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.
--Shak.Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.
--Beau. & Fl. To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission. 2 speech shadowing is when an individual repeats speech as they hear it immediately without delay (usually through earphones). 3 (context espionage English) secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance. 4 A faint representation; an adumbration. 5 (context computing English) 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. vb. (present participle of shadow English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Shadowing may refer to:
- Shadow fading in wireless communication, caused by obstacles
- File shadowing, to provide an exact copy of or to mirror a set of data
- Job shadowing, learning tasks by first-hand observation of daily behavior
- Projective shadowing, a process by which shadows are added to 3D computer graphics
- Variable shadowing, a variable naming issue in computer programming
- Speech shadowing, a type of experiment in psycholinguistics
- Nuclear shadowing, an effect in nuclear and particle physics
- Surveillance, following someones movements
Usage examples of "shadowing".
She never set foot across the bateau bridge without a Ranger shadowing her.
He led the way from the room with Eliza behind him and Professor van Duyl shadowing her from behind.
Annie Flinders sped at once to the Hotel Northern, which had been destroyed by the Japs and already rebuilt by the industrious Filipinos, and where, in the course of her shadowing, she had learned Doc Savage was staying.
The false beard, it is vieux jeu, and shadowing is only done by the lowest branch of my profession.
When we started shadowing Harley, it was Osmond who came and protested, like a loyal, devoted friend.
He ordered Bates to place two men on the task of shadowing Runkle, the lawyer, and of checking up on anybody he might meet.
Far above her, the shapes that she had thought were clouds shadowing the ocean floor were actually the bloated bellies of boats.
From that vantage point, he saw a pitifully overweight man, the flesh hanging sad inches over his beltline, more than just pudgy, shadowing into obesity, promising heart disease and kidney weakness, and all of the other flesh failures that obesity brought into existence.
Sunset was squat, round, a ball of energy and muscle, and above a thick, shadowing browridge his hair was still the startling red it had been when he was born, Ice-Age-sunset red.
Before sunset, word had come that the Ursal fleet was shadowing the army up the Masur Delaval, and would likely seal off the river before the morning.
Azhure, still in the early stages of labor, paced nearby, Sicarius shadowing her every step.
Rivkah sat quietly in a chair while Azhure, still in the early stages of labour, paced nearby, Sicarius shadowing her every step.
Crossing a broad gap in the cloud plain, Rachel saw the Greenie rise up behind them, taking a look upsun, then drop back down to sweep along the base of the clouds, slowly falling behind, but winging in the same direction that they were, shadowing from a safe distance.
He thought, as he met Flaude at the Vicugna for the third time, that the square-nosed man at the bar was shadowing him, but he forgot it in her young hand-clasp.
Ever since he had begun shadowing the group, he had apperceived and discarded more than a hundred of their conflicting emotions.