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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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sight
English
Etymology
From Middle English si?ht, si?t, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see +? -th. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?t
- enPR: s?t, IPA(key): /sa?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: cite, site
Noun
sight (countable and uncountable, plural sights)
- (in the singular) The ability to see.
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
- Something seen.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato (author), Sophist, 236d:
- He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato (author), Sophist, 236d:
- Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- And Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion
- They never saw a sight so fair.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
- (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
- A nombre of twenty sterres bright,
Which is to sene a wonder sight
- A nombre of twenty sterres bright,
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- "If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad."
- "Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!"
- In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
- (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
- That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Synonyms
- (ability to see): sense of sight, vision
- (something seen): view
- (aiming device): scope, peep sight
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
sight (third-person singular simple present sights, present participle sighting, simple past and past participle sighted)
- (transitive) To register visually.
- (transitive) To get sight of (something).
- (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.
- (transitive) To take aim at.
Synonyms
- (visually register): see
- (get sight of): espy, glimpse, spot
- (take aim): aim at, take aim at
Derived terms
- resight
Translations
See also
- see
- vision
Anagrams
- ghits, thigs, tighs
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