watchnoun詞源 1/ˈwɒt͡ʃ/

• 1

  A portable or wearable timepiece.

  • 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.
• 2

  The act of guarding and observing someone or something.

  • shepherds keeping watch by night
  • All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
• 3

  A particular time period when guarding is kept.

  • The second watch of the night began at midnight.
  • I did stand my watch upon the hill.
• 4

  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.

• 5

  A person or group of people who guard.

  • 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.
• 6

  The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

  • He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch.
• 7

  nauticaltransportA group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.

• 8

  nauticaltransportA 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).

watchverb詞源 2/ˈwɒt͡ʃ/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  To mind, attend, or guard.

  • Please watch my suitcase for a minute.
  • He has to watch the kids that afternoon.
• 4

  To be wary or cautious of.

  • You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying.
• 5

  To attend to dangers to or regarding.

  • watch your head; watch your step
  • Watch yourself when you talk to him.
• 6

  To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.

  • At the funeralls in Yorkeshire, to this day, they continue the custome of watching & sitting-up all night till the body is interred.
• 7

  To be vigilant or on one's guard.

  • For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.
• 8

  To act as a lookout.

  • "[…] 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?"