(n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
(n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
(n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
(n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
(n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
(n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
(v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
(v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
(v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
(v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine out of 10 private sector workplaces have never seen a union rep, let alone a picket line; the number of days lost to strike action in recent years have been, barring a relatively small spike in 2011, at historic lows.
(2) Staff willing to return and cross a picket line would be allowed to extend their stay to spend time with their families.
(3) Sounds like the good – or rather bad – old days of the 1970s, when strikes and work-to-rule protests backed by picket lines went hand in hand with Daily Mail warnings of “the enemy within”.
(4) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
(5) Thousands of junior doctors showed their support at more than 150 picket lines across England, demonstrating the strength of feeling amongst the profession.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kent and Canterbury junior doctors on the picket line.
(7) He has written, phoned, lobbied, picketed, pleaded, hassled, demonstrated and campaigned so that the case would not be abandoned and the people responsible for killing Daniel in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in March 1987 would never feel that they had got away with murder.
(8) When a fixation point moves under a row of identical targets at a speed of one target for each flash of a strobe, smooth apparent movement of the targets is seen (the "picket-fence illusion").
(9) Unite members mounted picket lines in the Heathrow area.
(10) Chris Tranchell cheerfully introduced himself as a flying picket, a one-man delegation from Hammersmith and Fulham trades council where he represents the actors' union, Equity.
(11) 11am: In Hull, striking presenters play a pre-recorded radio station "Strike FM" on the picket line, accomp-anied by a Dalek.
(12) IPCC will not investigate Orgreave police action during miners' strike Read more On that day in 1984, 8,000 miners who went to picket lorry drivers supplying coke to the steel industry were met by 6,000 police officers drawn from all over the country, commanded by South Yorkshire police.
(13) "The idea that the LA Times could be taken over by right-wing radical extremists just boggles the mind," said Glen Arnodo, staff director of the LA County Federation of Labor, as protestors prepared to picket.
(14) On Saturday it passed through Arizona, where it picketed the Phoenix offices of the Republican senator John McCain, whom it accuses of promoting “pro-invasion” legislation.
(15) • Propose that unlawful or intimidatory picketing should become a criminal as opposed to civil offence and new protections should be available for those workers unwilling to strike.
(16) Protesters also plan to picket that meeting, from which media have been excluded.
(17) Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers joined marches, rallies and picket lines across England and Wales on 10 July to protest against low pay and falling living standards.
(18) They met with the unions, they gave them flying pickets.
(19) The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
(20) Picket lines were lightly staffed, with six people outside White City, the home of BBC Television, at lunchtime, and three at Broadcasting House, where the radio stations transmit from.
Watch
Definition:
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
(v. i.) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
(n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
(v. i.) To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
(v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
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."