单词 | surveil |
释义 | surveilv. transitive. To exercise surveillance over (someone), subject (someone) to surveillance. Also with a place or area as object, and absol. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)] biwitieOE to look to ——c1330 watchc1330 to make or lay await onc1386 markc1400 to wait to ——c1440 to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450 waken1535 to look unto ——1594 to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon)1596 to look after ——a1616 overwatch1618 snokea1652 to look up1855 surveil1960 1960 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) CLXXXII. 750/1 The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled. 1968 Guardian 6 Aug. 4/1 It was some time before I was being surveilled..with the full courtesy of a Home Office warrant. 1972 B. F. Conners Don't embarrass Bureau ii. 123 ‘You'll have to conduct the surveillance.’..‘I'm supposed to surveil her?’ ‘That's right.’ Derivatives surˈveilled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [adjective] > exercising surveillance > kept under surveillance surveilled1980 1980 N. Freeling Castang's City xvii. 111 A few hints are conveyed by the word ‘light’. Not around twenty-four hours: that's ‘intense’ and needs three separate shifts... Light means not leaning on people: the surveilled aren't supposed to notice. surˈveilling n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [noun] > surveillance markingc1443 watch1611 observation1776 surveillance1802 surveilling1966 1966 Harper's Mag. Oct. 37/1 If the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is as adroit in surveilling others as it is in escaping surveillance of itself, the Republic can relax. 1969 New Scientist 10 July 10/1 Night surveilling systems for railway marshalling yards. 1975 O. Sela Bengali Inheritance xix. 169 ‘Where the hell is everybody?’..‘Out... Surveilling. Big emergency.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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