different between tailing vs shadowing

English

Verb

tailing

1. present participle of tail

Noun

tailing (plural tailings)

1. The act of following someone.
2. (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

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3. (obsolete) sexual intercourse

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4. (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
5. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

See also

• tailings

Anagrams

• gitalin, iligant, intagli

English

Pronunciation

Verb

shadowing

1. present participle of shadow

Noun

shadowing (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 an individual 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.

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