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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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vicarious
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vic?rius (“vicarious, substituted”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /v??k???i.?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /va??k?(?)?i.?s/, /v??k?(?)?i.?s/
- Rhymes: -??ri?s
Adjective
vicarious (not comparable)
- Delegated.
- Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience, rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
- On behalf of others.
Derived terms
Related terms
- vicar
- vicariously
Translations
References
- vicarious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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