What's the difference between watchman and watchmen?
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.
Watchmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Watchman
Example Sentences:
(1) As a comic, Watchmen was a cultural event, "the moment comics grew up"; as a movie, it's a star-free, 18-certificate proposition with a labyrinthine plot, silly costumes and offputting levels of violence.
(2) Snyder, director of 300 and Watchmen, signed on in October.
(3) There is no clearer indication that this is a dark time in the world's history than the fact that the director who made the slovenly, inept Watchmen is now getting to reboot Superman.
(4) A s the world recovers from the onslaught of the Watchmen movie and its omnipresent marketing campaign, the spotlight has yet again come on to Alan Moore – its comic book creator, guru of the graphic novel and mystical man of mystery.
(5) Snyder's direction feels far more assured than it did in the misfires of Watchmen and especially Sucker Punch, and now that the requisite first-movie origin story has been accomplished, the movie lays the ground for what could be some thrilling sequels featuring a Superman who's both exactly what people want to see and a significantly different take on a well-established character."
(6) Moore is best known for comics such as Watchmen and V for Vendetta which have expanded the possibilities of graphical storytelling.
(7) Lohan will be replaced by Malin Akerman , who starred in the comic book epic Watchmen.
(8) That led to Watchmen, and opened the floodgates for other British writers, such as Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison, who largely operated in the "mature reader" territory Moore conquered.
(9) As one might expect from the author of V For Vendetta , Watchmen , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Lost Girls , it combines satiric wit and furious philippic, the politically radical with the sexually ambiguous.
(10) Office workers and watchmen were used as referents (N = 20 + 20).
(11) "Things that we did in Watchmen on paper could be frankly horrible or sensationalist or unpleasant if you were to interpret them literally through the medium of cinema.
(12) From his point of view, which he explains in great detail, various executives at DC (which is owned by Time Warner, co-producers of the Watchmen movie) tried to manipulate him and attempted to sneak out Watchmen-related products behind his back, using artist Dave Gibbons as a "messenger", and even exploiting the fact of his best friend's brother's terminal illness to exert pressure on him.
(13) It also has exclusive work by creators including Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons and Lucifer writer Mike Carey.
(14) A significantly increased mortality from asthma was found among farmers (smoking adjusted SMR 137, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 115-156), farm workers (smoking adjusted SMR 170, 95% CI 107-235), woodworking machine operators (smoking adjusted SMR 226, 95% CI 108-344), clerical workers (smoking adjusted SMR 161, 95% CI 102-220), packers and labellers (smoking adjusted SMR 144, 95% CI 100-188), and watchmen (smoking adjusted SMR 212, 95% CI 104-320).
(15) "Now, see," he says, "I haven't read any superhero comics since I finished with Watchmen .
(16) The director's superb Watchmen (stop baying at the back there, naysayers) suggests he's more than capable of tying together multiple plot strands without losing the main story thread, yet his new film is still looking remarkably ambitious.
(17) He has had his name removed from anything to do with the Watchmen movie.
(18) Superman debuted during a particularly dark time in the world's history, the 1930s, so it is not surprising that the franchise is being rebooted now, with Man of Steel directed by the prolific action hack Zack Snyder (The 300, Watchmen).
(19) Concerning the occupations of the subjects, the rhythms of elderly watchmen showed no disturbance when they slept for three hours between 23:00 and 2:00.
(20) In its own way, Lost Girls is as pioneering as Watchmen, albeit more difficult to read on public transport without getting strange glances.