different between dogwatch vs reprehensible

English

Alternative forms

• dog-watch

Etymology

dog +? watch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??w?t?/

Noun

dogwatch (plural dogwatches)

1. (nautical) Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12, [1]

     […] in the last dog-watch when the drawing near of twilight induced revery […]

2. (by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.
   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 22:

     The girls we knew were all on the dogwatch, from four to twelve in the morning.

3. (nautical) A very brief period of naval service.
   • 1972, George Carroll Dyer, The Amphibians Came to Conquer (page 265)

     At that time, Captain Thomas G. Peyton, U.S. Navy, who had only served a dog watch as Captain of the Port at Noumea, New Caledonia, reported for this important billet.

Translations

Anagrams

• watchdog

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend +? -ible.

Adjective

reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)

1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
2. Deserving of reprehension.

Synonyms

• at fault, deplorable, remiss

Related terms

• reprehensibility
• reprehend
• reprehensive
• irreprehensible
• reprehension

Translations

Noun

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

1. A reprehensible person; a villain.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rep?een?sible/, [re.p?e.?n?si.??le]

Adjective

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

1. reprehensible

   Synonym: reprensible

Related terms

• reprehender
• reprehensión