Watch vs. Clock
Watch and Clock Definitions
Watch
To look or observe attentively or carefully; be closely observant
Watching for trail markers.
Clock
An instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.
Watch
To look and wait expectantly or in anticipation
Watch for an opportunity.
Clock
A time clock.
Watch
To act as a spectator; look on
Stood by the road and watched.
Clock
A source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.
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Watch
To stay awake at night while serving as a guard, sentinel, or watcher.
Clock
Any of various devices that indicate measurement, such as a speedometer or a taximeter.
Watch
To stay alert as a devotional or religious exercise; keep vigil.
Clock
A biological clock.
Watch
To look at steadily; observe carefully or continuously
Watch a parade.
Clock
The downy flower head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.
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Watch
To guard, keep surveillance on, or spy on
Watched the prisoner all day.
Watched the house to see who came and went.
Clock
An embroidered or woven decoration on the side of a stocking or sock.
Watch
To observe the course of mentally; keep up on or informed about
Watch the price of gold.
Clock
To time, as with a stopwatch
Clock a runner.
Watch
To pay close attention to or be careful about, especially with regard to propriety
Watched his manners.
Clock
To register or record with a mechanical device
Clocked the winds at 60 miles per hour.
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Watch
To tend or take care of (children or a flock of sheep, for example).
Clock
(Informal) To strike or hit (someone) forcefully, especially in the face.
Watch
A portable or wearable timepiece.
More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets.
Clock
To record working hours with a time clock
Clocks in at 8:00 and out at 4:00.
Watch
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
Clock
To be measured or registered, especially at a certain speed or rate. Often used with in
A fastball that clocks in at 95 miles per hour.
Watch
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
The second watch of the night began at midnight.
Clock
An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
Watch
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.
Clock
(attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
Watch
A person or group of people who guard.
The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
Clock
(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
Watch
The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
Clock
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
Watch
(nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
Clock
The seed head of a dandelion.
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).
Clock
A time clock.
I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock.
Watch
The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
Clock
A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
Watch
(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.
Clock
(uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
Watch
(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.
Clock
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
Watch
(transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
Please watch my suitcase for a minute.
He has to watch the kids that afternoon.
Clock
(transitive) To measure the duration of.
Watch
(transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying.
Clock
(transitive) To measure the speed of.
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
Watch
(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.
Clock
To hit (someone) heavily.
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
Watch
(intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil. en
Clock
(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
Clock the wheels on that car!
He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
Watch
(intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.
Clock
(transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.
A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
Watch
(intransitive) To act as a lookout.
Clock
To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
Watch
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
Clock
To beat a video game.
Have you clocked that game yet?
Watch
To be awake.
Clock
(transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
Watch
To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
Clock
To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
Watch
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.
Clock
To hatch.
Watch
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.
Clock
A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions; in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands, pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face, thus showing the hours and minutes. The works of a mechanical clock are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. In electrical or electronic clocks, the time may be indicated, as on a mechanical clock, by hands, but may also be indicated by direct digital readout, with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals. The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout. Some clocks also indicate the seconds. Clocks are not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. Specialized clocks, such as atomic clocks, may be constructed on different principles, and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observations.
Watch
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 himBrave me upon the watch.
Clock
A watch, esp. one that strikes.
Watch
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.
Clock
The striking of a clock.
Watch
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Clock
A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
Watch
An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.
Clock
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).
Watch
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 ?
Clock
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Watch
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.
Clock
To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
Watch
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.
Clock
A timepiece that shows the time of day
Watch
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.
Clock
Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;
He clocked the runners
Watch
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; - said of a buoy.
Watch
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.
Watch
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.
Watch
A small portable timepiece
Watch
A period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
Watch
A purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
Watch
The period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty
Watch
A person employed to watch for something to happen
Watch
A devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
Watch
Look attentively;
Watch a basketball game
Watch
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
Watch
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
Watch
Observe with attention;
They watched as the murderer was executed
Watch
Be vigilant, be on the lookout, be on one's guard, be careful;
Watch out for pickpockets!
Watch
Observe or determine by looking;
Watch how the dog chases the cats away
Watch
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
