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watching
(mass) | watching
- pozorovanie, sledovanie |
watching
(encz) | watching,hlídací adj: Zdeněk Brož |
watching
(encz) | watching,pozorování n: Zdeněk Brož |
watching
(encz) | watching,sledování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Watching
(gcide) | Watch \Watch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Watched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Watching.]
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1. 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.
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Saul also sent messengers unto David's house to
watch him, and to slay him. --1 Sam. xix.
11
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I must cool a little, and watch my opportunity.
--Landor.
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In lazy mood I watched the little circles die.
--Longfellow.
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2. To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
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And flaming ministers, to watch and tend
Their earthy charge. --Milton.
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Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.
--Broome.
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watching
(wn) | watching
n 1: the act of observing; taking a patient look [syn:
observation, observance, watching] |
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watching
(mass) | watching
- pozorovanie, sledovanie |
clock-watching
(encz) | clock-watching, n: |
fire watching
(encz) | fire watching, n: |
fire-watching
(encz) | fire-watching, |
watching
(encz) | watching,hlídací adj: Zdeněk Brožwatching,pozorování n: Zdeněk Brožwatching,sledování n: Zdeněk Brož |
willing suspension of disbelief (e.g. when watching movies)
(czen) | Willing Suspension of Disbelief (e.g. when watching movies),WSD[zkr.] |
Watchings of flowers
(gcide) | Vigil \Vig"il\, n. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake,
watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See
Wake, v. i., and cf. Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette,
Vegetable, Vigor.]
1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is
customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state
of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. "Worn
out by the labors and vigils of many months." --Macaulay.
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Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the
card table and those cutting passions which attend
them. --Addison.
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2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other
religious exercises.
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So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned.
--Milton.
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Be sober and keep vigil,
The Judge is at the gate. --Neale
(Rhythm of St.
Bernard).
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3. (Eccl.)
(a) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a
feast.
(b) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
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He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,
And say, "To-morrow is St. Crispian." --Shak.
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(c) A religious service performed in the evening preceding
a feast.
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Vigils of flowers or Watchings of flowers (Bot.), a
peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain
plants of opening and closing their petals at certain
hours of the day. [R.]
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clock-watching
(wn) | clock-watching
n 1: paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of
stopping work) |
fire watching
(wn) | fire watching
n 1: (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started
by bombs that dropped from the sky |
watching
(wn) | watching
n 1: the act of observing; taking a patient look [syn:
observation, observance, watching] |
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