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I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.
Gloria Naylor

Meaning of "surveil" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SURVEIL

Back formation from surveillance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SURVEIL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SURVEIL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Surveil is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb surveil in English.

WHAT DOES SURVEIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of surveil in the English dictionary

The definition of surveil in the dictionary is to observe closely the activities of.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SURVEIL

PRESENT

Present
I surveil
you surveil
he/she/it surveils
we surveil
you surveil
they surveil
Present continuous
I am surveiling
you are surveiling
he/she/it is surveiling
we are surveiling
you are surveiling
they are surveiling
Present perfect
I have surveiled
you have surveiled
he/she/it has surveiled
we have surveiled
you have surveiled
they have surveiled
Present perfect continuous
I have been surveiling
you have been surveiling
he/she/it has been surveiling
we have been surveiling
you have been surveiling
they have been surveiling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I surveiled
you surveiled
he/she/it surveiled
we surveiled
you surveiled
they surveiled
Past continuous
I was surveiling
you were surveiling
he/she/it was surveiling
we were surveiling
you were surveiling
they were surveiling
Past perfect
I had surveiled
you had surveiled
he/she/it had surveiled
we had surveiled
you had surveiled
they had surveiled
Past perfect continuous
I had been surveiling
you had been surveiling
he/she/it had been surveiling
we had been surveiling
you had been surveiling
they had been surveiling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will surveil
you will surveil
he/she/it will surveil
we will surveil
you will surveil
they will surveil
Future continuous
I will be surveiling
you will be surveiling
he/she/it will be surveiling
we will be surveiling
you will be surveiling
they will be surveiling
Future perfect
I will have surveiled
you will have surveiled
he/she/it will have surveiled
we will have surveiled
you will have surveiled
they will have surveiled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been surveiling
you will have been surveiling
he/she/it will have been surveiling
we will have been surveiling
you will have been surveiling
they will have been surveiling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would surveil
you would surveil
he/she/it would surveil
we would surveil
you would surveil
they would surveil
Conditional continuous
I would be surveiling
you would be surveiling
he/she/it would be surveiling
we would be surveiling
you would be surveiling
they would be surveiling
Conditional perfect
I would have surveil
you would have surveil
he/she/it would have surveil
we would have surveil
you would have surveil
they would have surveil
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been surveiling
you would have been surveiling
he/she/it would have been surveiling
we would have been surveiling
you would have been surveiling
they would have been surveiling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you surveil
we let´s surveil
you surveil
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to surveil
Past participle
surveiled
Present Participle
surveiling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SURVEIL


avail
əˈveɪl
countervail
ˌkaʊntəˈveɪl
overveil
ˌəʊvəˈveɪl
paravail
ˈpærəˌveɪl
prevail
prɪˈveɪl
re-avail
ˌriːəˈveɪl
surveille
sɜːˈveɪl
travail
ˈtræveɪl
unveil
ʌnˈveɪl
vail
veɪl
vale
veɪl
veil
veɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SURVEIL

surv.
surveillance
surveillance society
surveillant
surveille
survey
survey course
survey fee
survey ship
surveyable
surveyal
surveyance
surveying
surveyor
surveyor´s chain
surveyor´s level
surveyor´s measure
surveyorship
surview
survivability

WORDS THAT END LIKE SURVEIL

abseil
Antheil
brise-soleil
ceil
conseil
corbeil
coup d´oeil
deil
envermeil
humeral veil
island of Reil
nonpareil
seil
Sieg Heil
take the veil
teil
the veil
trompe l´oeil
vermeil
Weil

Synonyms and antonyms of surveil in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «surveil» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SURVEIL

Find out the translation of surveil to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of surveil from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «surveil» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

surveil
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

VIGILANCIA
570 millions of speakers

English

surveil
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निगरानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

surveil
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ческого надзора
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

surveil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

surveil
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

surveil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemerhatian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Überwa
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

surveil
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

surveil
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Survei
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

surveil
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

surveil
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्यवेक्षण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

surveil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sorve
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nadzorowaniem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чеського нагляду
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

supraveghea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εποπτεύουμε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

observasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

surveil
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

surveil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of surveil

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SURVEIL»

The term «surveil» is regularly used and occupies the 59.050 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SURVEIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about surveil

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QUOTES WITH «SURVEIL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word surveil.
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Gloria Naylor
I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SURVEIL»

Discover the use of surveil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to surveil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
E.g., "The chief of police directed several police officers to surveil different locations in town. "/ "The simple fact of a meeting at a restaurant takes on a much greater meaning based upon the information that the surveilling agents had obtained ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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The Simpsons Episodes: The Boy Meets Curl, to Surveil with ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
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Surveillance and Threat Detection: Prevention versus Mitigation
67 2.2.2.4 Where Are They Going to Surveil Us From? 70 2.2.2.5 How Are They Going to Surveil Us? 70 Surveillance & Threat Detection. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/B978-0-12-407780-5.00002-6 Copyright Ó 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved ...
Richard Kirchner, 2013
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Our Sexuality
Morbidity and Mortality IVeekly Report, 49, 512—515. Centers for Disease Control (2000b). Youth risk behavior surveil— lance: United States, 1999. Morbidity and Mortality IVeekly Report, 49, 1—79. Centers for Disease Control ( 20000).
Robert Crooks, Karla Baur, 2010
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InfoWorld
Accountability does scale because event logging and data analysis ride the favorable current of Moore's law. a critical fork in the road: "To the left, we surveil people. To the right, we surveil data. I'm arguing for data-level file-tracking because if ...
6
Orange Coast Magazine
surveil. George. Wright." claimed Gates had violated their constitutional rights. Youngblood, a tough-talking, chain-smoking good ol' boy from the South, had become an "enemy" of the sheriff's when he criticized his operation of the county jail ...
7
Occupying Political Science: The Occupy Wall Street Movement ...
Limiting Occupiers to specific spaces facilitated policeandprivate sectoreffortsto watchthem.77 While Occupiers weregenerally confined tothe horizontalstreet level, their feet planted on the ground, the police could surveil OWS from the city's  ...
Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton, Meghana Nayak, 2012
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
SURVEIL. ORDINARY. CITIZENS. People need to watch what they say, watch what they do. Ari Fleischer; former White House Press Secretary, 2001 I warn every animal on this farm to keep his eyes very wide open. Squealer, in George ...
Naomi Wolf, 2007
9
Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health
Specifically, it regulates three types of activity: directed surveil- lance, intrusive surveillance and the conduct and use of covert human intelligence sources. Directed surveillance is defined as covert surveil- lance that is undertaken in relation to ...
Stephen Battersby, 2013
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Update in Infectious Diseases
Bull Dept Med Sci 1977; 19: 207-215. 9. Aekwittayopas A. Report of investigation of conjunctivitis outbreak in juvenile protection facility in Nakhonratchasima 8-9 October 1992. W Epidemiol Surveil Rep 1994; 25: 117-120, 126-129. Thai CDC.
Viroj Wiwanitkit, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SURVEIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term surveil is used in the context of the following news items.
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#HackingTeam Leaks: Lebanon's Cybercrime Bureau Exploited …
Since the massive hack of the controversial Italian security and surveillance technology firm Hacking Team, journalists and human rights defenders in the Arab ... «Global Voices Online, Jul 15»
2
In New Documentary '(T)error,' Two Filmmakers Surveil Surveillers
He said he was an FBI informant and his apartment had been wired for audio and video surveillance. His target, Shah, had been arrested on terrorism charges. «Voice of America, Jul 15»
3
Say Hello to Cam and Aware, Nest's New Home Surveillance System
We knew it was coming. When Nest bought the camera maker DropCam for a cool half billion last year, it seemed inevitable that a surveillance camera would be ... «Gizmodo, Jun 15»
4
In These Times: Who Do You Protect, Who Do You Surveil?
Joel Handley says the Chicago Police Department has been using "stingray" spying equipment to track activists and their movements in Chicago, but the trend is ... «The Real News Network, Jun 15»
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Surveillance reform explainer: can the FBI still listen to my phone …
Something surprising happened in Washington DC on Tuesday: Congress passed surveillance reform. Last weekend, three parts of the Patriot Act – a bill ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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The NSA can't surveil Americans' every phone call – at least for now
The bulk surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act expired Monday, allowing ... Mitch McConnell lost the battle to let the NSA keep its mass surveillance powers. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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NSA can't legally surveil Americans' every phone call, for now …
Today is a big day for privacy in the United States: each of us can now call our mom, our best friend, or a pizza delivery service without the NSA automatically ... «Boing Boing, Jun 15»
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Police Body Cameras Without FOIA Requests Are "Tool to Surveil
Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced a pilot program last year to record the movements of 165 police officers through the use of body cameras, and Mayor ... «DCist.com, May 15»
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Baltimore police often surveil cellphones amid U.S. secrecy
The agreement also makes clear that neither the police department nor prosecutors are permitted to divulge information about the surveillance technology in ... «PBS NewsHour, Apr 15»
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Who Do You Protect, Who Do You Surveil?
Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has given more than $34 billion to local law enforcement, in part for high-tech surveillance gear like ... «In These Times, Apr 15»

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