# shadowing

Pronunciation: say "SHA-doh-ing" US /ˈʃædoʊɪŋ/, UK /ˈʃædəʊɪŋ/, AUS /ˈʃædəʉɪŋ/

## Noun

1. A work-experience arrangement in which a student learns about a job by following a skilled worker through a normal work day.
   - Simple: A way of learning about a job by spending the day with a worker and watching what they do.
   - _Her week of shadowing in the courthouse made a legal career feel real._
   - _Local firms partnered with the college to provide shadowing for graduating seniors._
2. The practice of secretly or discreetly following a person to keep them under surveillance.
   - Simple: The act of secretly following someone to watch where they go and what they do.
   - _Weeks of patient shadowing exposed the courier's hidden meeting spots._
   - _The reporter sensed the shadowing and changed her route home._
4. The effect produced when an object blocks light or a radio signal, leaving a darkened or weakened area behind it.
   - Simple: The blocking of light or a signal by something in the way, leaving a dark or weak spot.
   - _Engineers blamed the dead zone on shadowing by the mountain ridge._
   - _Shadowing from the tall cliff kept the cove in shade until noon._
5. A faint representation of something; a dim outline or adumbration.
   - Simple: A faint outline or hint of something, not a full or clear picture.
   - _The early draft offered a mere shadowing of the novel's later depth._
   - _In her memoir we find a faint shadowing of the events to come._
6. A task in which a person repeats speech aloud the instant they hear it, usually through earphones.
   - Simple: Repeating words out loud the moment you hear them, often through headphones.
   - _Many interpreters train with shadowing to sharpen their real-time processing._
   - _Shadowing forces the brain to listen and speak at almost the same moment._
7. A technique of copying ROM contents into RAM to allow shorter access times, with the ROM then disabled while the faster copy answers at the same addresses.
   - Simple: Copying the contents of slow read-only memory into faster memory so a computer can read them more quickly.
   - _Enabling BIOS shadowing copied the firmware into RAM for faster access._
   - _Shadowing reduced the latency of every call into the system ROM._

## Verb

3. Present participle of shadow. — present participle and gerund of shadow
   - Simple: Present participle of shadow. Use this -ing form when the action is happening now.
   - _The intern spent the month shadowing experienced surgeons._
   - _A tall building was shadowing the courtyard by late afternoon._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/shadowing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).