Overhear vs Eavesdropping - What's the difference?
overhear | eavesdropping |
To hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears.
Listening secretly to private conversation of others.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 (telecoms ) The interception of electronic communication.
As verbs the difference between overhear and eavesdropping
is that overhear is to hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears while eavesdropping is present participle of lang=en.As a noun eavesdropping is
listening secretly to private conversation of others.overhear
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* overhearereavesdropping
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(wikipedia eavesdropping) (en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}