shadowing
/ˈʃædoʊɪŋ/
noun
- The practice of following and observing someone closely, especially to learn a job or skill.
- The new intern spent a week doing job shadowing with the senior designer.
- Shadowing is a common way for medical students to learn from experienced doctors.
- She arranged a shadowing opportunity at the law firm to see if she wanted to become a lawyer.
- A language learning technique where you repeat spoken words immediately after hearing them, mimicking the speaker's intonation and rhythm.
- Shadowing helps improve pronunciation and listening comprehension at the same time.
- Many language teachers recommend shadowing to build fluency and confidence.
- He practiced shadowing with an audio recording of a native speaker every morning.
- A subtle, unwanted copy or echo effect in audio or video, where a signal arrives slightly later than the original.
- Engineers worked to eliminate the shadowing caused by signal reflection off the building.
- Shadowing in the video feed made the moving objects appear to have a faint duplicate.
- The radio broadcast had a slight shadowing that made voices sound hollow.
adjective
- Following closely and observing, especially for training or surveillance.
- The shadowing officer stayed just behind the trainee during the patrol.
- The shadowing program pairs new employees with experienced mentors.
- A shadowing detective watched the suspect from a distance.