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prooflisten

verb

Etymology

From proof + listen, modelled on earlier proofread.

  1. derived from *ḱlew-✻ — “to hear”
  2. inherited from *hlusēną✻
  3. inherited from *hlusnijaną✻
  4. inherited from hlysnan — “to listen”
  5. inherited from listenen
  6. compounded as prooflisten — “proof + listen”

Definitions

  1. To listen, usually to a recording, for errors.

    • Then we prooflistened to the entire recording against the drafted transcript, and proofread, revised, and edited again, and then prepared each manuscript for publication in book form.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prooflisten. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA