(n.) One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
Example Sentences:
(1) McCormack Evans says porn-watchers can quickly descend into self-hatred.
(2) Analysts and industry watchers say it is too soon to judge the mettle of Lewis and new finance director Alan Stewart, whose tenure can still be measured in weeks.
(3) - @lyallgrant #Syria September 27, 2013 But veteran UN watcher Colum Lynch explains what the draft really means on Foreign Policy's The Cable blog .
(4) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
(5) But last week's trading statement from Unilever confirmed that, far from cashing in on the dieting craze, Slim Fast's sales have been shrinking faster than a weight watcher's waistline.
(6) Bibi-watchers are focused now on how the Israeli leader will play the next six months, in which the Geneva agreement will either blossom into a lasting accord or break apart.
(7) Eric Heginbotham, a senior fellow at the US Council on Foreign Relations, is one of many Kim-watchers who say it's consistent with what is known about the regime.
(8) What gets a person to their first Weight Watchers meeting?
(9) It’s disingenuous of Rupert Murdoch to say otherwise.” Murdoch watchers see the dual-track emoting of his Twitter feed and the editorial pages of his newspapers as symbiotic.
(10) The available data of members of Weight Watchers groups were statistically evaluated and their efficiency is discussed with respect to the underlying therapeutic concept.
(11) Little more than 50 years on, however, it is the setting for a chaotic and demeaning political battle that has even long-term parliament watchers shaking their heads in disbelief.
(12) One practical suggestion that might ease the problem would be to extend the responsibilities of “listeners” in our jails so that they also become “watchers”.
(13) In a central London basement, Shelina Permalloo, a former winner of Masterchef, cooks salmon for the 10 best Weight Watchers in the country.
(14) He told the German newspaper Bild that Greece was unlikely to need all of the €86bn fund because the Greek budget was developing better than expected – a view that contrasts with some market watchers who think the country is heading for its fourth bailout.
(15) The Federal Reserve has become the watcher and weigher of market-moving events.
(16) Weight losses of 5kg may be less than many people might hope for, but we know from many other research studies that this brings surprisingly large health benefits; more than halving the risk of developing diabetes in people with raised blood sugar,” said Jebb, who has conducted research funded by Weight Watchers in the past.
(17) Watchers of television news clips in the run-up to Britain’s referendum on EU membership are likely to become familiar with her sweater made up of the flags of the nine Common Market countries, accompanying her call then for “a big Yes vote for Europe”.
(18) They wanted ISPs to deny their users access to such sites in a move that some internet watchers warned could lead to the blocking of video-sharing sites such as YouTube .
(19) Meerkat is likely to be the talk of South by Southwest, as Twitter was in 2007 and Foursquare in 2009, as investors and technology watchers seek out Rubin and watch the company’s curated Meerkat live-stream events.
(20) The affair caused puzzlement among Kremlin watchers at the time.
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.