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单词 listeningin
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listening-in
2. (Also listening-in.) The action of listening to a radio broadcast, a record-player, etc.; also, the action of listening (esp. secretly) to a telephone conversation. (Cf. listen v. 2e, 2f.) Also attributive and transferred.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > electronic espionage > [noun] > of telephones, etc.
wiretapping1878
listening-in1927
bugging1955
1904 Electr. World & Engineer 7 May 875/2 The removal of the operator's plug, or her ‘listening-in’, restores the circuits to their proper condition for subsequent use.
1921 Wireless World 10 Dec. 581/1Listening in’ was indulged in.
1922 Daily Mail 23 Nov. 5 Listening-in to U.S.
1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves ii. v. 149 But of what use is leisure, when leisure is occupied with listening-in and going to football matches?
1927 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 24 Dec. 80/2 These telephones were connected with a listening-in device concealed behind a picture on the wall.
1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 389/3 The sounds heard had emerged from the loud-speaker of the caretaker... The caretaker was extremely annoyed at this interruption to his listening.
1939 War Illustr. 21 Oct. p. ii/1 Its [sc. the B.B.C.'s] dud programmes have led to a great falling-off in listening.
1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Feb. 83 From South West Germany it is stated that controllers have been appointed in blocks of flats to supervise the listening-in.
1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 17 Listening log, list, in prescribed form, of the broadcast programmes heard by one person over a period of time.
1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. ii. 217 Dan Cobbley was another radio personality, although he was on a lower listening figure level.
1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 619/2 The new possibilities for continuous listening helped enormously. On the debit side was the tendency especially of solo artists to record whole programs on LP disks, repeating endlessly the same established repertoire.
1969 John Edwards Mem. Foundation Q. 5 iv. 126 The transcriptions of the songs..are as nearly accurate as I can make them. After countless listenings I still can't make out some of the words.
1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) iii. ii. 31 Listening-in, listening to a call in progress.
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listening-in
b. (Also listening-in.) That listens to a broadcast, recording, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [adjective] > listening > listening to broadcast or recording
listening-in1926
1926 Punch 14 July 39 (caption) Husband (to listening-in Wife). ‘What's the matter, dear? Is it bad news or Stravinsky?’
1935 Discovery Sept. 277/2 They are providing ever better products and service to enable the listening public to get more enjoyment from the ‘audio’ programmes.
1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 17 Listening group, group of listeners meeting regularly with the twofold object of hearing a particular series of broadcast talks..and engaging in discussion.
1957 B.B.C. Handbk. 104 Audience Research set up permanent Listening Panels to report their reactions to the programmes they heard.
1970 B.B.C. Handbk. 112 A special listening section keeps track of the activities of foreign radio stations.
1974 Times 30 Nov. 10/4 The practitioners [of religious broadcasting]..are impeded by some notion of what the listening public expects their output to be.
extracted from listeningadj.
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