Shadowing

shadowing
    n 1: the act of following someone secretly [syn: {shadowing},
         {tailing}]
    

Shadow \Shad"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shadowed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Shadowing}.] [OE. shadowen, AS. sceadwian. See {adow},
   n.]
   1. To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw
      a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
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            The warlike elf much wondered at this tree,
            So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.]
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            Let every soldier hew him down a bough.
            And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow
            The numbers of our host.              --Shak.
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   3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
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            Shadowing their right under your wings of war.
                                                  --Shak.
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   4. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
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   5. To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence,
      to represent typically.
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            Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
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            The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. --Shak.
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            Why sad?
            I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.
                                                  --Beau. & Fl.
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   7. To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch
      closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as,
      a detective shadows a criminal.
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Shadowing \Shad"ow*ing\, n.
   1. Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading.
      --Feltham.
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   2. A faint representation; an adumbration.
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            There are . . . in savage theology shadowings,
            quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme
            Deity.                                --Tylor.
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aliasing
shadowing

   1. <jargon> When several different identifiers refer to the
   same object.  The term is very general and is used in many
   contexts.

   See {alias}, {aliasing bug}, {anti-aliasing}.

   2. <hardware> (Or "shadowing") Where a hardware device
   responds at multiple addresses because it only decodes a
   subset of the {address lines}, so different values on the
   other lines are ignored.

   (1998-03-13)
    

71 Moby Thesaurus words for "shadowing":
      ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, blackening, blind,
      blocking the light, booby trap, bugging, chase, chasing,
      cloak-and-dagger work, clouding, counterespionage,
      counterintelligence, darkening, dimming, dogging, eclipsing,
      electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, extinguishment, follow,
      follow-up, following, heeling, hounding, hue and cry, hunting,
      intelligence, intelligence work, lurking hole,
      military intelligence, obfuscation, obnubilation, obscuration,
      obscurement, observation, obumbration, occulting, overcast,
      overclouding, overshading, overshadowing, overshadowment,
      prosecution, pursual, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest,
      searching, secret police, secret service, seeking, sequel,
      sequence, series, shading, spying, stakeout, stalking,
      stalking-horse, surveillance, tailing, tracking, tracking down,
      trailing, trap, wiretap, wiretapping