watch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from Old English wæċċe. See below for verb form.
Inflected forms:
form: watches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: watches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: watching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: watch
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: watch
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: watch
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: watchest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: watchedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: watches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: watcheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: watch
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: watch
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: watch
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: watching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: watched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A portable or wearable timepiece.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: watch face, watch receiver, watchspring, watch battery, watchstrap, watch strap, watchband
More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets; some people today don't use a watch at all, because their smartphone serves the purpose well enough.
He set the alarm on his watch to 8:00 am.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
gloss: The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: shepherds keeping watch by night
All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
gloss: A particular time period when guarding is kept.
pos: noun
examples: The second watch of the night began at midnight.
I did stand my watch upon the hill.
Might we but hear […]
 Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock
 Count the night watches to his feathery dames.
In the evening a tremendous thunder storm, accompanied by wind and rain. It is my watch and I find it a terrible time to act as sentry.
gloss: A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or group of people who guard.
pos: noun
examples: The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
gloss: The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
pos: noun
examples: He upbraids Iago, that he made him
 Brave me upon the watch.
gloss: A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
pos: noun
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
pos: noun
examples: A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story.
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.
gloss: To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Watching the clock will not make time go faster.
I'm tired of watching TV.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
gloss: To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Watch this!
Put a little baking soda in some vinegar and watch what happens.
gloss: To mind, attend, or guard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please watch my suitcase for a minute.
He has to watch the kids that afternoon.
[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”
gloss: To be wary or cautious of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying.
gloss: To attend to dangers to or regarding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: watch your head; watch your step
Watch yourself when you talk to him.
Watch what you say.
gloss: To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At the funeralls in Yorkeshire, to this day, they continue the custome of watching & sitting-up all night till the body is interred.
gloss: To be vigilant or on one's guard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.
gloss: To act as a lookout.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "[…] Scarcely a night passes without the light showing, and there's no doubt that the water runs. We've put copying ink on the door handles and the taps and got into it ourselves until there isn't a man about the place that you couldn't implicate."
"Has anyone watched up there?"
gloss: To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
pos: verb
gloss: To be awake.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 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 […]
gloss: To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: [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.
Antonyms: ignore
Related words: wait
wake
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: shoh
lang: Albanian
word: shikoj
lang: Southern Altai
word: караар
roman: karaar
lang: Arabic
word: شَاهَدَ
roman: šāhada
lang: Arabic
word: تَفَرَّجَ
roman: tafarraja
lang: Arabic
word: رَاقَبَ
roman: rāqaba
lang: Arabic
word: نَظَرَ
roman: naẓara
lang: Arabic
word: شاف
roman: šāf
lang: Arabic
word: اِتْفرّج
roman: itfarrag
lang: Arabic
word: شاف
roman: šāf
lang: Arabic
word: اتفرج
roman: atfarraj
lang: Arabic
word: تابع
roman: tābaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: راقب
roman: rāgab
lang: Arabic
word: حضر
roman: ḥiḍir
lang: Arabic
word: تفرّج
roman: tfarraj
lang: Armenian
word: նայել
roman: nayel
lang: Asturian
word: mirar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: izləmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: baxmaq
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡарау
roman: qaraw
lang: Belarusian
word: глядзе́ць
roman: hljadzjécʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: паглядзе́ць
roman: pahljadzjécʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: гле́дам
roman: glédam
lang: Burmese
word: ကြည့်
roman: krany.
lang: Catalan
word: mirar
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 睇
roman: tai²
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 看
roman: khon
lang: Chinese
word: 看
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 看
roman: kàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 觀 /观
roman: guān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 觀看 /观看
roman: guānkàn
lang: Czech
word: dívat se
lang: Czech
word: hlídat
lang: Czech
word: sledovat
lang: Czech
word: zhlédnout
lang: Czech
word: zhlížet
lang: Old Czech
word: zřieti
lang: Danish
word: se på
lang: Danish
word: holde øje med
lang: Dutch
word: kijken
lang: Esperanto
word: spekti
lang: Estonian
word: vaatama
lang: Finnish
word: katsoa
lang: Finnish
word: katsella
lang: French
word: regarder
lang: Old French
word: espier
lang: Old French
word: reguarder
lang: Galician
word: mirar
lang: Georgian
word: ყურება
roman: q̇ureba
lang: German
word: ansehen
lang: German
word: sehen
lang: German
word: zusehen
lang: Greek
word: παρακολουθώ
roman: parakolouthó
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σκοπέω
roman: skopéō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βλέπω
roman: blépō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὁράω
roman: horáō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θεάομαι
roman: theáomai
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θεωρέω
roman: theōréō
lang: Hebrew
word: צָפָה
roman: tsafá
lang: Hebrew
word: הִסְתַּכֵּל
roman: histakél
lang: Hebrew
word: הִבִּיט
roman: hibít
lang: Hindi
word: देखना
roman: dekhnā
lang: White Hmong
word: saib
lang: Hungarian
word: néz
lang: Ido
word: regardar
lang: Indonesian
word: menonton
lang: Irish
word: fair
lang: Italian
word: guardare
lang: Japanese
word: 見る
roman: miru
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: bízia
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: biziá
lang: Kambera
word: tàru
lang: Kapampangan
word: albe
lang: Khmer
word: មើល
roman: məəl
lang: Korean
word: 관찰하다
roman: gwanchalhada
lang: Korean
word: 보다
roman: boda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: چاو کردن
roman: çaw kirdin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: çehv kirin
lang: Lao
word: ເບິ່ງ
roman: bœng
lang: Latin
word: cōnspiciō
lang: Latin
word: spectō
lang: Latin
word: specio
lang: Latin
word: aspicio
lang: Latin
word: aspecto
lang: Latvian
word: skatīties
lang: Lithuanian
word: žiūrėti
lang: Luxembourgish
word: kucken
lang: Luxembourgish
word: nokucken
lang: Macedonian
word: гледа
roman: gleda
lang: Malay
word: tengok
lang: Malay
word: layan
lang: Malay
word: menyaksikan
lang: Malay
word: melihat
lang: Māori
word: titiro
lang: Māori
word: mātaki
lang: Māori
word: mātakitaki
lang: Māori
word: mātai
lang: Mazanderani
word: هارشین
roman: harshian
lang: Mongolian
word: үзэх
roman: üzex
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: tìe
lang: Norman
word: r'garder
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: observere
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: passe på
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: se på
lang: Oromo
word: eeguu
lang: Persian
word: نِگاه کَرْدَن
roman: negâh kardan
lang: Persian
word: تماشا کردن
roman: tamâšâ kardan
lang: Persian
word: نظاره کردن
lang: Persian
word: پاییدن
roman: pâyidan
lang: Persian
word: نگریستن
roman: negaristan
lang: Polish
word: oglądać
lang: Polish
word: obserwować
lang: Polish
word: patrzeć
lang: Portuguese
word: ver
lang: Portuguese
word: assistir
lang: Quechua
word: qhaway
lang: Romanian
word: privi
lang: Romanian
word: observa
lang: Romanian
word: urmări
lang: Romanian
word: monitoriza
lang: Russian
word: смотре́ть
roman: smotrétʹ
lang: Russian
word: наблюда́ть
roman: nabljudátʹ
lang: Russian
word: гляде́ть
roman: gljadétʹ
lang: Sardinian
word: abbadiare
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: coimhead
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гле̏дати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: glȅdati
lang: Slovak
word: dívať sa
lang: Slovak
word: pozerať
lang: Slovak
word: hľadať
lang: Slovene
word: gledati
lang: Spanish
word: mirar
lang: Spanish
word: guachar
lang: Spanish
word: catar
lang: Spanish
word: aguaitar
lang: Spanish
word: lentear
lang: Swedish
word: se på
lang: Tagalog
word: manood
lang: Tagalog
word: magmasid
lang: Tajik
word: нигоҳ кардан
roman: nigoh kardan
lang: Thai
word: ดู
roman: duu
lang: Thai
word: ชม
roman: chom
lang: Thai
word: มอง
roman: mɔɔng
lang: Tongan
word: fakasio
lang: Turkish
word: izlemek
lang: Turkish
word: seyretmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: диви́тися
roman: dyvýtysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: спостеріга́ти
roman: sposteriháty
lang: Urdu
word: دیکْھنا
roman: dekhnā
lang: Vietnamese
word: xem
lang: Vietnamese
word: coi
lang: Waray-Waray
word: ki-ta
lang: Waray-Waray
word: i-mod
lang: Waray-Waray
word: tan-au
lang: Welsh
word: edrych (ar)
lang: Welsh
word: gwylio
lang: Yiddish
word: וואַטשן
roman: vatshn
lang: Zazaki
word: seyr kerden
lang: Zazaki
word: temaşe kerden
lang: Zazaki
word: weynen