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watch
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w?t??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w?t??/, /w?t??/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /w?t??/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from Old English wæ??e. See below for verb form.
Noun
watch (plural watches)
- A portable or wearable timepiece.
- The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- A particular time period when guarding is kept.
- A person or group of people who guard.
- The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
- (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
- (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
- The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
- 2016, Andrew Bullock, David Brent REVIEW: Life on the Road goes from painfully funny to just plain painful. Ouch (in Sunday Express, 11 August)
- The first third of the film is laugh after laugh; […] But half an hour in and this movie gets unnervingly dark and is an uncomfortable watch at times.
- 2016, Andrew Bullock, David Brent REVIEW: Life on the Road goes from painfully funny to just plain painful. Ouch (in Sunday Express, 11 August)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English wacchen, from Old English wæ??an, from Proto-West Germanic *wakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *wakjan?.
Verb
watch (third-person singular simple present watches, present participle watching, simple past and past participle watched)
- (transitive, intransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
- (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
- (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
- (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
- (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
- (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
- (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
- (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
- (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- So on the morne Sir Trystram, Sir Gareth and Sir Dynadan arose early and went unto Sir Palomydes chambir, and there they founde hym faste aslepe, for he had all nyght wacched […]
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- (transitive, obsolete) To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 80:
- [S]he had reason to dread that her husband had formed a very criminal project of being revenged on Zeluco, and watched an opportunity of putting it in execution.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 80:
Usage notes
- When used transitively to mean look at something, there is an implication that the direct object is something which is capable of changing.
Antonyms
- ignore
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- wait
- wake
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conservation
English
Etymology
From Old French.Surface analysis conserve +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?ns?(?)?ve???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)
- The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- Wise use of natural resources.
- (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
- (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Derived terms
- anticonservation
- anticonservationist
- conservational
- conservation law
Translations
Anagrams
- conversation, nanovortices
French
Etymology
From Latin conservatio.
Pronunciation
Noun
conservation f (plural conservations)
- conservation
Derived terms
- loi de conservation
- loi de conservation de l'énergie
Further reading
- “conservation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- conversation
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- what conservation efforts are inplace to protect it
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