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Definition of Watch

Watch The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night. One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night. A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring. An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch. That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch. To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil. To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel. To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity. To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever. To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy. To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature. To tend; to guard; to have in keeping. Related Definitions: About, Act, Allotted, Also, An, And, Any, Are, As, Attend, Attendant, Attention, Attentive, Awake, Be, Being, Body, Buoy, By, Bill, Carried, Chronometer, Close, Constantly, Continue, Crew, Deck, Designated, Division, Does, Dogwatch, During, Duty, Expectant, Expectation, Fever, Floating, For, Forbearance, Formerly, Four, From, Give, Guard, Half, Have, Heed, Hence, His, Hour, Hours, In, Is, Keep, Keeping, Kept, Legislature, Look, Lookout, Lose, Machinery, Man, Moved, Night, Not, Nurse, Observant, Observation, Observe, Of, Office, On, One, Opportunity, Or, Part, Period, Person, Place, Placing, Port, Portion, Post, Posted, Preservative, Preventive, Progress, Properly, Purpose, Ready, Relief, Remain, Said, Seek, Sentinel, Sentry, Serve, Sick, Sight, Sleep, Small, Spring, Standing, Starboard, Tend, That, The, Those, Till, Time, Timepiece, To, Together, Vessel, View, Vigil, Vigilance, Vigilant, Wait, Wake, Wakeful, Watch, Watches, Watching, Watchman, Watchmen, Where, Which, Who, With, Without, Working

Watch Quotations It is better to watch things then to do them. Dan Castellaneta I don't watch television. Ray Walston If you don't like my movies, don't watch them. Dario Argento I like to make movies I like to watch. Elle Macpherson I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it. Dan Quayle

Watch Translations watch in Afrikaans is polshorlosie, horlosie, armhorlosie watch in Danish is ur watch in Dutch is horloge, polshorloge watch in Finnish is kello watch in French is horloge, montre, bracelet montre watch in German is aufpassen, beobachten, sehe/siehst, bewachen, Uhr watch in Italian is orologio, sorvegliare watch in Latin is vigilo, specto watch in Spanish is prestar atencion, reloj, reloh, guardar watch in Swedish is klocka, vaka, vakt, valla, iakttar, fickur, ur

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