| 词汇 | eavesdropping |
| 释义 | eavesdropping noun[ U ] uk /ˈiːvz.drɒp.ɪŋ/ us /ˈiːvz.drɑː.pɪŋ/ the action of listening to someone's private conversation from close by without them knowing: I was trying not to listen to their conversation, but I finally gave up and started some serious eavesdropping. the action of listening to someone without them knowing by using an electronic listening device, for example attached to a telephone line: Telecommunications companies helped the security agency conduct eavesdropping without warrants. the action of stealing private information by secretly picking up an electronic signal or entering a computer system: There is concern over spy satellites and electronic eavesdropping. Related words eavesdrop eavesdropper The dialogue is so natural that there is an impression of eavesdropping on real life. Phone companies are well aware how vulnerable their voicemail messages are to eavesdropping. Web security requires far more than protection against simple eavesdropping. Using the ears attend aurally be all earsidiom binaural binaurally catch cloth ears ear earshot eavesdrop eavesdropper hark hearing lend an earidiom monaural monaurally non-auditory overhear prick prick (something) up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: International relations: spying and espionage Stealing Operating computers Examples of eavesdroppingeavesdropping I began to seek out sources of comprehensible input, eavesdropping (harmlessly!) when alone on trains or in coffee shops. Such monitoring can be performed through explicit queries, environmental observations or by eavesdropping on communication, which can reduce the increased communication usually associated with teams. The closely related offences of barratry and eavesdropping are shown next : only 5 individuals feature in the 7 cases, 4 men and a woman. It is like eavesdropping on a hushed conversation between brass players, and rather gives the lie to a devil-may-care attitude. As a listener, one almost appears to be eavesdropping. Sometimes you can do this at the time you hear a word, but if you're reading or eavesdropping, that's impossible. Eavesdropping on a conversation that you have no business hearing. One woman and two men were accused of eavesdropping. Eavesdropping, from the wording of the presentments, seems to imply not merely listening to private conversations but repeating what has been heard and thereby stirring up discord. Hosts, agents and other entities are vulnerable to a number of attacks ranging from eavesdropping communications to stealing sensitive and private data and inflicting damage by design through viruses. Cluster formation would also limit cross-talk due to common signal molecules between species, which raises issues of confusion, interference, and eavesdropping. They cover only telephonic interception and not eavesdropping by induction methods as opposed to direct contact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In short, the end is not everything, for each individual case of eavesdropping is an invasion of privacy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The drastic increase in eavesdropping devices is in inverse proportion to their judicial effectiveness. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Computerised data banks are particularly vulnerable to espionage, eavesdropping and error. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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