What's the difference between guardful and watchful?
Guardful
Definition:
(a.) Cautions; wary; watchful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(2) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(3) DNA-samples from HSV-infected and uninfected Vero cells have been examined concurrently to provide standard "HSV-positive" and "HSV-negative" samples, the latter guarding also against false positives caused by cross-contamination.
(4) Merseyrail plans to operate trains without guards from 2020, although it has promised to redeploy staff.
(5) Sensitizing drugs must be strictly avoided to prevent such recurrences: their presence in drug mixtures must be guarded against.
(6) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(7) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
(8) The Thunder now have a 2-0 series lead but can't afford to let their guard down considering they're about to face a wounded and fired up Kobe Bryant at home.
(9) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
(10) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
(11) Sample work-up consisted of addition of internal standard, filtration, then direct injection of the plasma sample onto an internal surface reversed-phase (ISRP) guard column where the dopamine agonist and internal standard were separated from plasma proteins.
(12) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(13) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
(14) I ask the Turkish guard to confirm that they will send a search-and-rescue team.
(15) On Tuesday, Romney had one event, a speech to the National Guard Association convention in Reno, Nev. And on the day before that, another single rally, in Mansfield, Ohio.
(16) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
(17) Even when he’s going through the motions of politeness, he rarely lets his guard down.
(18) Three G4S guards were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
(19) Beatings with metal bars and cables were followed by so-called “security checks”, during which women in particular were subjected to rape and sexual assault by male guards.
(20) Typically, a local authority or someone with a large commercial property would pay six figures annually for security guards, CCTV, gates and other physical security.
Watchful
Definition:
(a.) Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(2) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(3) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
(4) The government has been counting on the fact that their attacks on the NHS are too complicated to be widely understood: after all, their Health and Social Care Act was much longer than the legislation that created the NHS under Aneurin Bevan’s watch in the first place.
(5) "We purposely watched it that way - to magnify the experience," Kidman says.
(6) Milan’s 4-0 win over Steaua in the European Cup final in 1989 was a great display so I’ve made my players watch the video.
(7) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(8) Yet Malema's influence continues to grow and his travails are watched with interest.
(9) Four million viewers tune in to the show every week and two million more watch online the next day.
(10) Lessons have been learned from previous Games, not least London 2012, in how to best frame the sporting action for maximum impact – not only for those watching on television but those attending in person.
(11) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(12) The UK is a country we are watching closely on these issues.
(13) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
(14) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(15) I watch three hours of Smiley, then I have lunch, then I write for a couple of minutes. '
(16) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
(17) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
(18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
(19) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(20) They watch the Premier League everywhere in Africa."