Crossword-Solution: WATCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Watch | v. i. | 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. |
| Watch | v. i. | One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. |
| Watch | v. i. | The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. |
| Watch | v. i. | 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. |
| Watch | v. i. | A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring. |
| Watch | n. | An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch. |
| Watch | n. | That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch. |
| Watch | v. i. | To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil. |
| Watch | v. i. | To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel. |
| Watch | v. i. | To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity. |
| Watch | v. i. | 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. |
| Watch | v. i. | To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy. |
| Watch | v. t. | 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. |
| Watch | v. t. | To tend; to guard; to have in keeping. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WATCH | anagram | WACHT |
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Sentences with WATCH (5)
Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.
Day by day did Hiawatha Go to wait and watch beside it; Kept the dark mould soft above it, Kept it clean from weeds and insects, Drove away, with scoffs and shoutings, Kahgahgee, the king of ravens.
They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: “My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.” The Two Dogs A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.
Again, he would sometimes walk up to us, and give us orders as though he was upon the point of starting on a long journey, turn his back upon us, and make as though he was going to the house to get ready; and, before he would get half way thither, he would turn short and crawl into a fence-corner, or behind some tree, and there watch us till the going down of the sun.
Quotes with WATCH (3)
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.
When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,... not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If you watch the stories God is weaving in your life, you... will begin to see the patterns. You'll become a poet, sensitive to your Father's voice.
As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 65 times in crossword archives (1966–2024).