Watch vs. Wach — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Watch or Wach
How to spell Watch?
Watch
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Wach
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Watch Definitions
A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities.
Look at or observe attentively over a period of time
As she watched, two women came into the garden
Lucy watched him go
Everyone stopped to watch what was going on
Exercise care, caution, or restraint about
You should watch what you say!
Most women watch their diet during pregnancy
Remain awake for the purpose of religious observance
She watched whole nights in the church
A small timepiece worn typically on a strap on one's wrist
My watch had stopped
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An act or instance of carefully observing someone or something over a period of time
The security forces have been keeping a close watch on our activities
A film or programme considered in terms of its appeal to the public
This movie's an engrossing watch
A flock of nightingales
A watch of nightingales began flying south
To look or observe attentively or carefully; be closely observant
Watching for trail markers.
To look and wait expectantly or in anticipation
Watch for an opportunity.
To act as a spectator; look on
Stood by the road and watched.
To stay awake at night while serving as a guard, sentinel, or watcher.
To stay alert as a devotional or religious exercise; keep vigil.
To look at steadily; observe carefully or continuously
Watch a parade.
To guard, keep surveillance on, or spy on
Watched the prisoner all day.
Watched the house to see who came and went.
To observe the course of mentally; keep up on or informed about
Watch the price of gold.
To pay close attention to or be careful about, especially with regard to propriety
Watched his manners.
To tend or take care of (children or a flock of sheep, for example).
A portable or wearable timepiece.
More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets.
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
The second watch of the night began at midnight.
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.
A person or group of people who guard.
The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
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.
(ambitransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
Watching the clock will not make time go faster.
I'm tired of watching TV.
(transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
Watch this!
Put a little baking soda in some vinegar and watch what happens.
(transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
Please watch my suitcase for a minute.
He has to watch the kids that afternoon.
(transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying.
(transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
Watch your head; watch your step
Watch yourself when you talk to him.
Watch what you say.
(intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil. en
(intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.
(intransitive) To act as a lookout.
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
To be awake.
To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.
Shepherds keeping watch by night.
All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.
Ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and robbers on the highway . . . Watch, is properly applicable to the night only, . . . and it begins when ward ends, and ends when that begins.
One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.
I did stand my watch upon the hill.
Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cockCount the night watches to his feathery dames.
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.
To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
I have two nights watched with you.
Couldest thou not watch one hour ?
To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
Take ye heed, watch and pray.
The Son gave signal highTo the bright minister that watched.
To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning.
To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; - said of a buoy.
To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house to watch him, and to slay him.
I must cool a little, and watch my opportunity.
In lazy mood I watched the little circles die.
To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
And flaming ministers, to watch and tendTheir earthy charge.
Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.
A small portable timepiece
A period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
A purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
The period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty
A person employed to watch for something to happen
A devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
Look attentively;
Watch a basketball game
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
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
Observe with attention;
They watched as the murderer was executed
Be vigilant, be on the lookout, be on one's guard, be careful;
Watch out for pickpockets!
Observe or determine by looking;
Watch how the dog chases the cats away
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
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