"prooflisten" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: prooflistens [present, singular, third-person], prooflistening [participle, present], prooflistened [participle, past], prooflistened [past]
Etymology: From proof + listen, modelled on earlier proofread. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|proof|listen}} proof + listen Head templates: {{en-verb}} prooflisten (third-person singular simple present prooflistens, present participle prooflistening, simple past and past participle prooflistened)
  1. To listen to a recording for errors. Related terms: prooflistener, prooflistening Coordinate_terms: proofread
    Sense id: en-prooflisten-en-verb-6C-ZvpYU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1975, Calvin W. Taylor, Robert L. Ellison, “Moving Toward Working Models in Creativity: Utah Creativity Experiences and Insights”, in Irving A. Taylor, J.W. Getzels, editors, Perspectives in Creativity, Piscataway, N.J.: Aldine Transaction, published 2009, →ISBN, section “Our Early Beginnings in Creativity”, page 193:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1982, Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 394, column 2:",
          "text": "Our data are taken from verbatim transcripts of tape-recorded psychoanalytic sessions. These have been exhaustively prooflistened and punctuated so that, sort of a phonemic rendering, their reading is as close to a translation of the auditory record as we are capable of.",
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          "ref": "1995, Laurence Urdang, editor, Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, page 17:",
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          "ref": "1997, “r/ Inse‸t a Carrot ‸ͤ [Inset a Carrot / Insert a Caret]”, in Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, page 86, columns 1–2:",
          "text": "After he lost his sight, he had spent an insomniac night trying to figure out what kind of work he might still be able to do, and had hatched the following plan: He would spend 12 hours a day in front of the television set, prooflistening for mistakes in grammar and pronunciation. He figured that if he charged $5 a mistake, he would become a rich man. His plan had evaporated in the harsh light of morning, however, when he decided that, like the software company, the networks were not Fadimans and would therefore not wish to be improved.",
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          "text": "Step 3. Listen and Correct (prooflisten): Learners listen to the spoken version of their text read aloud by the ABAIR voice. The user chooses the dialect they wish and the gender of the speaker. This provides not only exposure to native-like speech, but provides essentially a proof-listening tool which is a powerful aid for self-correction.",
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