(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."
Watchman
Definition:
(n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
(n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saad al-Dawla, the night watchman of the al-Mathaf hotel, said he was sleeping when the commandos came to the beach.
(2) When we return from dinner at the ungodly hour of 9.20pm, we have to be let in by the night watchman.
(3) When Trayvon Martin was shot to death by an overzealous neighborhood watchman in 2012, no one knew much about the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) and the kinds of laws they secretly push – including the now-infamous “stand-your-ground” laws that allow Americans to shoot first and ask questions later.
(4) How the infection was transmitted to the first victim in the city, a watchman's wife who lived on the outskirts, is more difficult to explain.
(5) This paper describes the case of a pregnant 17-19 year old unmarried girl from Kenya who has a primary level education, no definite religion, is unemployed and living with her father, a watchman.
(6) Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal of a low tax, laissez-faire, "night-watchman state".
(7) Ferguson mired in sweeping racial discrimination, federal report finds Read more The same high bar was in place for a two-year investigation into the 2012 killing in Florida of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watchman.
(8) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
(9) As always, this isn't a straightforward equation – a panopticon effect in which we are monitored by a faceless watchman and receive nothing in return.
(10) At the morgue entrance a watchman, Wilzor, huddled by a radio listening to upbeat Compas music.
(11) Instead the short volume, entitled Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and published on Monday, is intended to be what the Wikileaks founder calls "a watchman's shout in the night", warning of an imminent threat to all civilisation from "the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen" – the web.
(12) The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive Read more Clinton invoked several high-profile cases, including that of Trayvon Martin , the Florida teenager who was shot to death in his own neighborhood in 2012 by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, and Sandra Bland, who was found hanged to death in a Texas county jail cell , three days after a routine traffic stop escalated into physical confrontation.
(13) Instead, Britain’s main opposition party resembles a dilapidated warehouse storing heaps of votes behind rusted gates, guarded by a drowsy night watchman.
(14) "I was just sitting in my chair when suddenly I heard a huge bang," said a watchman of a nearby hospital who did not want to give his name.
(15) Martin was killed by a neighborhood watchman who viewed his presence as “suspicious”.
(16) Ah, then there's Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, now The Night Watchman , singing for striking teachers and assailed unions – playing both his own subversions and acquainting young America with the great radical folk canon.
(17) The watchman's wife need not have been the first one to catch the infection.
(18) The night watchman-like Rhodes in Oxford, by contrast, occupies a crevasse in an Oriel building overlooking High Street, unobtrusively, and insidiously, guarding an always-shut door below him.
(19) In a particularly absurd episode, he is chased by a squad car after his random shooting of a busker, commandeers a cab (killing its driver), crashes into a Korean deli, kills a cop who tries to disarm him, escapes from the armed police who seem to have him surrounded, shoots dead a janitor and a night watchman in a nearby building, and (as a Swat team arrives in a helicopter, just too late) sits in his office confessing his crimes ("thirty, forty, a hundred murders") to his lawyer's answering machine.
(20) To escape the nuptials, in 1941 he ran away to Johannesburg, where he landed a job as a night watchman guarding the compound entrance of a goldmine.