eavesdrop
معنی فارسی
گوش ايستادن استراق سمع کردن
معنی کامل و مثالها
/ēvz´dräp´/n., vi.
● استراق سمع کردن، گوش ایستادن
he hid under the table and eavesdropped on his sister and her fiance
او زیر میز پنهان شد و به (حرفهای) خواهرش و نامزد او گوش داد.
● (نادر) چکه (که از رخبام می چکد)، چکه گاه
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
Late Middle English: back-formation from eavesdropper (late Old English yfesdrype) ‘a person who listens from under the eaves’, from the obsolete noun eavesdrop ‘the ground onto which water drips from the eaves’.
مثال
- He was eavesdropping on their conversation.
- She accused me of eavesdropping.
- I couldn't help but eavesdrop on their argument.
ترکیبهای رایج
eavesdrop on a conversation accused of eavesdropping eavesdrop on a meeting
تعریف انگلیسی
- listen without the speaker's knowledge “the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations” “Somebody ----s” “Somebody ----s PP”