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watching
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?t???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?t???/
- Rhymes: -?t???
Verb
watching
- present participle of watch
Noun
watching (plural watchings)
- The act of one who watches.
- 1819, John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
- What toils and pains; what cares and watchings; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?
- 1819, John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
Hyponyms
- whale watching
Derived terms
- Sun-watching
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scrutiny
English
Etymology
From Middle English scrutiny, from Medieval Latin scr?tinium (“a search, an inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin scr?tor (“to search or examine thoroughly”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Late Latin scr?ta (“rubbish, broken trash”); or of Germanic origin, related to Old English scr?tnung (“examination, investigation, inquiry, search”), from scr?tnian, scr?dnian (“to examine carefully, scrutinize, consider, investigate”), from Proto-Germanic *skrud?n?, *skruþ?n? (“to search, examine”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewt- (“to cut”). Compare Old High German skrod?n, scrut?n, scrutil?n (“to research, explore”), Old High German scrod (“a search, scrutiny”), Old English scr?adian (“to shred, cut up, cut off, peel, pare, prune”). More at shred.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sk?u?.t?.ni/
- Hyphenation: scru?ti?ny
Noun
scrutiny (usually uncountable, plural scrutinies)
- Intense study of someone or something.
- Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
- An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
- A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
- An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Translations
Verb
scrutiny (third-person singular simple present scrutinies, present participle scrutinying, simple past and past participle scrutinied)
- (obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.
Further reading
- scrutiny in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scrutiny in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- "Scrutiny" in the Catholic Encyclopedia
- 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", scrûtnung
- Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.). Scrutnung. Retrieved September 18, 2011, from http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/027060
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