running commentary en · NOUN
Meanings
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A continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:Observations were made using a running commentary, which consisted mainly of a list of coded behaviour items.
1974, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Ethological studies of child behaviour, page 250:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| running commentaries | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (3)
es comento corrido (Translations) · es comentarios continuos (Translations) · es comentarismo corriente (Translations)