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Tailing vs Shadowing - What's the difference?

tailing | shadowing |

As verbs the difference between tailing and shadowing

is that tailing is present participle of lang=en while shadowing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tailing and shadowing

is that tailing is the act of following someone while shadowing is the effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.

tailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of following someone.
  • (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (obsolete) sexual intercourse
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * tailings

    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.