Meanings
plural running commentaries
- A continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
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 2501 more example
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
Translations
Spanish comentarios continuos, comento corrido
- comentarios continuosTranslations
- comento corridoTranslations
- comentarismo corrienteTranslations
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