(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."
Watchmaker
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
(2) Swatch A third of the Swiss watchmaker’s sales are in mainland China.
(3) The first 10 occupants will be from Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Burma, among them an accountant, an engineer, a watchmaker.
(4) Intact hair follicles were then removed from the fat using watchmakers' forceps.
(5) The daughter of a Jewish watchmaker from Latvia and middle-class woman from Britain, Gordimer started writing in earnest at the age of nine and produced 15 novels as well as several volumes of short stories, non-fiction and other works.
(6) These initial 10 refugees have come from Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Myanmar … however, they can now call Papua New Guinea their home.” He described the refugees who were granted the visas as a “special class of people”, who included an accountant, an engineer, a jeweller and a watchmaker.
(7) Degeneration after crushing with fine watchmakers forceps always began in the most distal part of the nerve and proceeded in a distoproximal direction, from the nerve entry point into a muscle back to the crush site.
(8) When grafts were rubbed with a glass rod or pinched with watchmaker forceps, impulses were evoked in nerves innervating both implant and cultured regions.
(9) We will continue to monitor the situation.” Tag Heuer, the Swiss luxury watchmaker which has had a relationship with Sharapova since 2004, said it had stopped negotiations with the player, whose previous contract ended on 31 December.
(10) At watchmaker Longines he became director of sports timing and PR, before joining Fifa as technical director in 1975.
(11) Blatter has been at Fifa for 40 years, since his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange personally plucked him from watchmaker Longines to lead the commercialisation of the World Cup that has seen revenues rise in direct correlation with endless claims of bribery and kickbacks.
(12) Plotted with watchmaker-precision by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, and directed by the latter, this 1985 release charts the escapades of time-travelling teenager Marty McFly (Michael J Fox).
(13) Hume was here anticipating the argument of William Paley, who argued that it is as rational to infer the existence of a divine creator from the existence of the marvellous, complex universe as it is infer the existence of watchmaker from the discovery of a watch.
(14) Her mother, Hannah ("Nan") Myers, came from London; her father, Isidore, left Latvia as a teenager to "escape pogroms and poverty" and join his watchmaker brother, later becoming a flourishing jeweller.
(15) The sciatic nerve or lumbar spinal nerves (that is the extraspinal nerves before their fusion in the sciatic plexus) were crushed with fine watchmakers' forceps in neonatal and adult rats.
(16) Apart from Swiss watchmakers and other industries, whose products will now look seriously overpriced on world markets, one of the more unexpected casualties will be homebuyers in Hungary and Poland.
(17) Havelange, who plucked Blatter from the Swiss watchmaker Longines in 1975, tasked him with remodelling Fifa into the money-making behemoth it is today.
(18) Curriculum vitae Name: Richard Dawkins Age: 64 Job: Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford Likes: walking the dog Dislikes: back-to-front baseball caps, gratuitous noise Books: The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale Married: to Lalla Ward (of Dr Who fame), one daughter from previous marriage
(19) The Scot, needless to say, recently signed a sponsorship deal with the upmarket Swiss watchmaker Rado.
(20) Intact mouse follicles were isolated with watchmaker forceps (stages 4-6) or by enzymatic digestion (stages 1-4) at 0900 h and 1500 h on each day of the 5-day estrous cycle.