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running commentary

running commentary noun: a continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.

Noun

running commentary (plural running commentaries)

  1. 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

running commentary meaning in Tamil and Urdu

running commentary in Tamil

நடப்புரை வாசகம், நிகழ்ச்சித் தொடர் விளக்க உரை, நிகழ்ச்சித் தொடர் விளக்கவுரை, நேர்முக வண்ணனை

running commentary in Urdu

آنکھوں دیکھا حال

Forms of running commentary

pluralrunning commentaries

Questions about running commentary

What does running commentary mean?
Running commentary means a continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
What is running commentary in Tamil?
Running commentary in Tamil is நடப்புரை வாசகம், நிகழ்ச்சித் தொடர் விளக்க உரை, நிகழ்ச்சித் தொடர் விளக்கவுரை. See Running commentary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is running commentary?
Running commentary is a noun.
What is the plural of running commentary?
The plural of running commentary is running commentaries.

Words near running commentary in the dictionary

  1. running board
  2. running boards
  3. running by
  4. running circles around
  5. running commentaries
  6. running commentary
  7. running counter
  8. running coupling
  9. running couplings
  10. Running Creek
  11. running day

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: running commentary (page history and authors); running commentary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); running commentary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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