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watch
[ woch ]
verb (used without object)
- to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens:
to watch while an experiment is performed.
- to look or wait attentively and expectantly (usually followed by for ):
to watch for a signal;
to watch for an opportunity.
- to be careful or cautious:
Watch when you cross the street.
- to keep awake, especially for a purpose; remain vigilant, as for protection or safekeeping:
to watch with a sick person.
- to keep vigil, as for devotional purposes.
- to keep guard:
She was assigned to watch at the door.
verb (used with object)
- to keep under attentive view or observation, as in order to see or learn something; view attentively or with interest: to watch a football game.
to watch a play;
to watch a football game.
- to contemplate or regard mentally:
to watch his progress.
- to look or wait attentively and expectantly for:
to watch one's opportunity.
Synonyms:
- to guard, tend, or oversee, especially for protection or safekeeping:
to watch the baby.
Synonyms:
noun
- close, continuous observation for the purpose of seeing or discovering something:
Their watch for the birds was unrewarding.
Synonyms: ,
- vigilant guard, as for protection or restraint:
to keep watch for prowlers.
Synonyms:
- a keeping awake for some special purpose:
a watch beside a sickbed.
- a period of time for watching or keeping guard:
to stand the first watch.
- a small, portable timepiece, as a wrist watch or pocket watch.
- a chronometer.
- Nautical.
- a period of time, usually four hours, during which one part of a ship's crew is on duty, taking turns with another part.
- the officers and crew who attend to the working of a ship for an allotted period of time.
- one of the periods, usually three or four, into which the night was divided in ancient times, as by the Greeks or Hebrews:
the fourth watch of the night.
- a person or group that watches, as a lookout, guard, or sentinel:
A watch was posted at sunset.
- Also called storm watch. Meteorology. an announcement from the U.S. National Weather Service alerting the public that dangerous weather conditions are a possibility and that vigilance and precautionary preparations are advised: tornado watch. Compare advisory ( def 5 ), warning ( def 3 ).
hurricane watch;
tornado watch.
- a flock of nightingales.
verb phrase
- to be on one's guard; be cautious:
Watch out for cars when you cross the road.
- to guard for protection or safekeeping:
She watched over us like a mother hen over her brood.
-watch
1suffix
- indicating a regular television programme or newspaper feature on the topic specified
Crimewatch
watch
2/ 飞蓲迟蕛 /
verb
- to look at or observe closely or attentively
- intrfoll byfor to wait attentively or expectantly
- to guard or tend (something) closely or carefully
- intr to keep vigil
- tr to maintain an interest in
to watch the progress of a child at school
- watch it!be careful! look out!
noun
- a small portable timepiece, usually worn strapped to the wrist (a wristwatch ) or in a waistcoat pocket
- ( as modifier )
a watch spring
- the act or an instance of watching
- a period of vigil, esp during the night
- (formerly) one of a set of periods of any of various lengths into which the night was divided
- nautical
- any of the usually four-hour periods beginning at midnight and again at noon during which part of a ship's crew are on duty
- those officers and crew on duty during a specified watch
- the period during which a guard is on duty
- (formerly) a watchman or band of watchmen
- on the watchon the lookout; alert
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 耻苍路飞补迟肠丑别诲顎 adjective
- 耻苍路飞补迟肠丑顎僫苍驳 adjective
- 飞别濒濒顎-飞补迟肠丑别诲顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of watch1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of watch1
Idioms and Phrases
The hunter was on the watch for game.
- watch oneself,
- to be cautious.
- to practice discretion or self-restraint.
More idioms and phrases containing watch
- keep watch
- look (watch) out
- on the lookout (watch)
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Even as traditional appointment TV viewing fades, 鈥60 Minutes鈥 remains the most watched news program, approaching 10 million viewers in some weeks, according to Nielsen data.
The launch episode earlier this month was watched by about 2.7 million people.
Packed in my picnic basket beside my chair, Banana Cake joined me while watching sunsets on some of the most beautiful, sugar white, talcum powder soft beaches in the world.
In Scotland, where she usually runs, she says there are normally a few hundred people gathering to watch.
"You're watching yourself get personally ripped apart, criticised, accused of all sorts of stuff over and over again. You're thinking, "This isn't true.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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