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Cloaking vs Shadowing - What's the difference?

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Cloaking is a related term of shadowing.


As verbs the difference between cloaking and shadowing

is that cloaking is while shadowing is .

As nouns the difference between cloaking and shadowing

is that cloaking is the act of wrapping or covering with a cloak while shadowing is the effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.

cloaking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
  • * Strype
    • to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings
  • * (Sir Walter Scott), Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer
    • I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings , his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
  • The material from which cloaks are made.

    • shadowing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
  • Speech shadowing is when an individual repeats speech as they hear it immediately without delay (usually through earphones).
  • (espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
  • A faint representation; an adumbration.
    • There are in savage theology shadowings , quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. — Tylor.
  • (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.