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Watch

//ˈwɒt͡ʃ// noun, verb

Noun

1
A portable or wearable timepiece.
"Meronyms: watch face, watch receiver, watchspring, watch battery, watchstrap, watch strap, watchband"
2
a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe wordnet
3
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
"shepherds keeping watch by night"
4
the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) wordnet
5
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
"The second watch of the night began at midnight."

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a small portable timepiece wordnet
7
A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
8
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event wordnet
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A person or group of people who guard.
"The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates."
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a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty wordnet
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The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
"He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch."
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the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty wordnet
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A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
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A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
15
The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
"A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story."

Verb

1
To look at, see, or view for a period of time. ambitransitive
"Watching the clock will not make time go faster."
2
find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort wordnet
3
To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention. transitive
"Watch this!"
4
observe without intervening wordnet
5
To mind, attend, or guard. transitive
"Please watch my suitcase for a minute."

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observe or determine by looking wordnet
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To be wary or cautious of. transitive
"You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying."
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look attentively wordnet
9
To attend to dangers to or regarding. transitive
"watch your head; watch your step"
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see or watch wordnet
11
To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil. intransitive
"At the funeralls in Yorkeshire, to this day, they continue the custome of watching & sitting-up all night till the body is interred."
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be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful wordnet
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To be vigilant or on one's guard. intransitive
"For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away."
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follow with the eyes or the mind wordnet
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To act as a lookout. intransitive
16
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
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To be awake. intransitive, obsolete
"So on the morne Sir Trystram, Sir Gareth and Sir Dynadan arose early and went unto Sir Palomydes chambir, and there they founde hym faste aslepe, for he had all nyght wacched […]"
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To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly. obsolete, transitive
"[S]he had reason to dread that her husband had formed a very criminal project of being revenged on Zeluco, and watched an opportunity of putting it in execution."

Etymology 1

As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from Old English wæċċe. See below for verb form.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wacchen, from Old English wæċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną.

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