watch

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You watch your mail box like a hawk for the next 30 days.

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Quick take

a small portable timepiece

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of watch gathered in one view.

noun

a small portable timepiece

noun

a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty

noun

a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for watch.

noun

a small portable timepiece

noun

a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty

noun

a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

noun

the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty

noun

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

See also: lookout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, scout, picket

noun

the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

verb

look attentively; "watch a basketball game"

verb

follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars"

verb

see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie"

verb

observe with attention; "They watched as the murderer was executed"

verb

be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful; "Watch out for pickpockets!"

verb

observe or determine by looking; "Watch how the dog chases the cats away"

verb

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"

See also: determine, check, see, ascertain, learn

Example sentences

You watch your mail box like a hawk for the next 30 days.

Wow, watching that news clip reminds me about why I never watch the news.

"It has been fascinating to watch the ongoing reactions.

The result of this was a huge loss of Swiss watch companies as they struggled to compete.

In the 60's the Swiss freaked out because the Japanese started producing cheap, disposable watch movements.

The swiss lever escapement was up until the mid 2000's practically the only escapement produced in wristwatches.

A great example of this is a continuous glucose monitoring, non-invasive watch that came out ~ a decade ago.

One of the ideas they came up with was to produce a large number of cheap watches, but they couldn't just drop prices, they also had to retool and drop quality, substantially.

The original ones that are worth more than most startups in Mountain View are cylinder watches, and finding one that runs is the equivalent of founding a Facebook for watch collectors.

I never liked the fact that their schizophrenic content releases would appear during a timed window, only to disappear from my list later before I actually got a chance to watch it.

The pallet stones have since been upgraded to be synthetic ruby, along with the majority of the other bearing surfaces in watches, since the introduction of this book, however.

And completely terminates all Microsoft service to anyone found wanting to obey by these fundamentalist directives?The warning should not be "watch what you store on SkyDrive", the warning should be "stay the hell away from Microsoft".

Back before we had fancy alloy springs and were forced to use Steel as the material for mainsprings because that's all we knew, watches had problems where a freshly wound watch would run fast and a watch that hasn't been wound for a day or so would start to run slow, as the strength of the spring tapered off. The Geneva Drive was a solution, though it's more of a hack, to only let the spring release power inside the middle of it's power arc, by preventing the watch from unwinding past a certain low point and preventing the user from winding the spring up to it's strongest point.