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Definition: EAVESDROPPING |
EAVESDROPPINGNoun1. The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law. |
Date "EAVESDROPPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | The unauthorized interception of information-bearing emanations through the use of methods other than wire-tapping. Clandestinely listening in on a conversation or other signals, generally not using a wire-tap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Messages can be protected against eavesdropping by employing a security service of confidentiality (or privacy). This security service is usually implemented by encryption.
In ancient China, it is said that to act against eavesdropping, when discussing important matters, soldiers would instead draw the characterss instead, on hands or papers.
The Canadian heroine Laura Secord is famous for having eavesdropped the plans of American army and delivered this information to the British.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eavesdropping."
Synonyms: EAVESDROPPINGSynonyms: Electronic bugging, Electronic listening devices. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
News | Report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: EAVESDROPPING |
| English words defined with "EAVESDROPPING": bugged. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "EAVESDROPPING": electronic eavesdropping ♦ intrusion into privacy ♦ violation of privacy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And what the hell are you doing eavesdropping on my conversations, anyway? (Andy Richter Controls the Universe; writing credit: John Banas) I can just think of the eavesdropping potential. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) Just in case the telephone operator should be eavesdropping. (Topsy-Turvy; writing credit: Mike Leigh) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Human Rights | Turkmenistan | Security officials use physical surveillance, telephone tapping, electronic eavesdropping, and the recruitment of informers. (references) |
Pakistan | In 1997 the Supreme Court directed the Government to seek its permission before carrying out wiretapping or eavesdropping operations; however, the judiciary's directive has been ignored widely. (references) | |
Mexico | An investigation initiated in July by the PGR indicated that these persons formed part of a political eavesdropping and surveillance ring allegedly run out of the Mexico state governor's office. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EAVESDROPPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.15% of the time. "EAVESDROPPING" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 71.15% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.31% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.62% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "EAVESDROPPING": electronic eavesdropping. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eavesdropping | 45 |
electronic eavesdropping | 10 |
eavesdropping device | 7 |
cell phone eavesdropping | 7 |
eavesdropping equipment | 6 |
cellular eavesdropping | 4 |
phone eavesdropping | 3 |
eavesdropping detection | 2 |
cordless phone eavesdropping | 2 |
eavesdropping law | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EAVESDROPPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 窃听 (Eavesdrop, wiretap). (various references) | |
Danish | aflytning (interception). (various references) | |
Dutch | afluisteren (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, monitor, tap, to place a tap on a person's telephone). (various references) | |
Finnish | salakuuntelu (listening without a licence, tapping). (various references) | |
French | espionnage électronique, interception de messages émanants de système, écoute informatique, écoute de messages en lignes, écoute clandestine. (various references) | |
German | lauschend (listening). (various references) | |
Greek | λαθρακρόαση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | צתות (listening in, tapping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hallgatózás (auscultation, sounding). (various references) | |
Italian | origliando, intercettazione sulla linea, intercettazione di messaggi viaggianti sulla linea. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 盗み聞き (tapping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぬすみぎき (tapping). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eavesdroppingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escuta clandestina, intercepção de mensagens. (various references) | |
Russian | подслушать подслушивание. (various references) | |
Spanish | escucha informática. (various references) | |
Swedish | tjuvlyssning. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"EAVESDROPPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evesdropping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EAVESDROPPING" (pronounced ē"vzdrÄ'ping) |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-s-v" | |
-3 letters: disapprove, dognappers, grapevines, overdesign. | |
-4 letters: approving, depraving, deserving, disproven, dognapers, dognapper, droppings, eavesdrop, endeavors, endpapers, envisaged, espionage, gesneriad, grandiose, grapevine, graveside, organdies, organised, overspend, peperonis, peponidas, personage, pervading, pervasion, pinedrops, progenies, reinvades, renegados, respading, ringdoves, sandpiper, sovereign, spreading, vaporings, vaporised, vinegared. | |
-5 letters: agonised, airspeed, anergies, aneroids, apposing, apprised, approved, approves, arsenide, avengers, aversion, avodires, avoiders, deposing, depraves, deprives, deraigns, deranges, designer, diagnose, diaspore, disagree, disprove, diverges, dognaper, dogvanes, dropping, endeavor, endpaper, energids, engraved, engraves, envisage, epigones, eringoes, eversion, genipaps, gesneria, governed, gradines, grandees, grenades, indorsee, invaders, isoprene, naperies, nearside, negroids, nosedive, oedipean, operands, oppidans, organdie, organise, overaged, overages, overpaid, overside, overspin, padrones, pandores, papering, parodies, peonages, peperoni, peponida, perigean, perigons, perpends, personae, pervades, pioneers, pipeages, poniards, poperies, presaged, prevised, prisoned, propanes, propends, propenes, propense, propined, propines, provides, readings, reasoned, redesign, reedings, regained, reinvade, renegado, repaving, reposing, resigned, ringdove, sandpeep, savoring, severing, snappier, spavined, spearing, speeding, speering, spongier, sprained, springed, vaporing, vaporise, vinegars, viragoes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 41 56 45 53 44 52 4F 50 50 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .- ...- . ... -.. .-. --- .--. .--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000001 01010110 01000101 01010011 01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E A V E S D R O P P I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0041 0056 0045 0053 0044 0052 004F 0050 0050 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39355639533852495050434841 |
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