什么是 watchs?
- 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). See Synonyms at tend2.
- The act or process of keeping awake or mentally alert, especially for the purpose of guarding.
- The act of observing closely or the condition of being closely observed; surveillance. A period of close observation, often in order to discover something: a watch during the child's illness.
- A person or group of people serving, especially at night, to guard or protect.
- The post or period of duty of a guard, sentinel, or watcher.
- Any of the periods into which the night is divided; a part of the night.
- Nautical Any of the periods of time, usually four hours, into which the day aboard ship is divided and during which a part of the crew is assigned to duty. The members of a ship's crew on duty during a specific watch. A chronometer on a ship.
- A period of wakefulness, especially one observed as a religious vigil. A funeral wake.
- A small portable timepiece, especially one worn on the wrist or carried in the pocket.
- A flock of nightingales.
- To act or proceed with care and caution.
- To behave as is demanded, required, or appropriate.