Synonyms of the word

watch

• n. A portable or wearable timepiece.
• n. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
• n. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
• n. A person or group of people who guard.
• n. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
• n. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty:…
• n. (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the…
• n. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
• v. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
• v. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
• v. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
• v. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
• v. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
• v. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.

ascertain

• v. To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
• v. (archaic) To make (someone) certain or confident.

catch

• n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
• n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
• n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
• n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
• n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
• n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
• n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
• n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
• n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
• n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
• n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
• n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
• n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
• n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
• n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
• n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
• n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
• n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
• n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
• v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
• v. (heading) To seize hold of.
• v. (heading) To intercept.
• v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
• v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
• v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
• v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

determine

• v. To set the boundaries or limits of.
• v. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
• v. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
• v. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
• v. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence;…
• v. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
• v. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
• v. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

follow

• v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
• v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
• v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
• v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
• v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
• n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
• n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

horologe

• n. (obsolete) A clock or watch.

learn

• v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
• v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
• v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
• v. To be studying.
• v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
• v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.

lookout

• n. A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.
• n. A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, etc.
• n. A subject for observation; a prospect or view.
• n. One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. (used with a possessive pronoun or a noun in…

observe

• v. (transitive) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
• v. (transitive) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
• v. (intransitive) To comment on something; to make an observation.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

picket

• n. A stake driven into the ground.
• n. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the…
• n. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
• n. (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance…
• n. A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
• n. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the…
• n. (card games) The card game piquet.
• v. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
• v. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
• v. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

rite

• n. A religious custom.
• n. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
• adj. Informal spelling of right.
• adv. Informal spelling of right.
• interj. Informal spelling of right.
• n. Informal spelling of right.

scout

• n. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about…
• n. An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
• n. A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the…
• n. A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf…
• n. (Britain) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge…
• n. (Britain, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
• n. (historical, Britain, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
• v. (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as…
• v. (transitive) To reject with contempt.
• v. (intransitive) To scoff.
• n. (dated) A swift sailing boat.
• n. (archaic) A projecting rock.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

sentinel

• n. A sentry or guard.
• n. (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a…
• n. Watch; guard.
• n. A sentinel crab.
• v. (transitive) To watch over as a guard.
• v. (transitive) To post as guard.
• v. (transitive) To post a guard for.

sentry

• n. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
• n. (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
• n. (nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

spotter

• n. A person who observes something.
• n. (military) A member of a sniper team.
• n. (weightlifting, gymnastics, climbing) One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to…
• n. (US) A banksman or dogman.

surveillance

• n. Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
• n. Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
• n. (military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic…
• n. (law) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected…

ticker

• n. A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.
• n. A ticker tape, either the traditional paper kind or a scrolling message on a screen.
• n. (colloquial) The heart.
• n. (birdwatching, slang) A birdwatcher who aims to see (and tick off on a list) as many bird species as possible.

timekeeper

• n. A device that shows the time; a timepiece.
• n. A person who keeps records of the hours of attendance of employees.
• n. A person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event.

timepiece

• n. Any device that measures or registers time; a clock or watch, especially one lacking a chime or other…

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

vigil

• n. An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
• n. A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
• n. The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
• n. A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.

watch

• n. A portable or wearable timepiece.
• n. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
• n. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
• n. A person or group of people who guard.
• n. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
• n. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty:…
• n. (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the…
• n. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
• v. (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
• v. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
• v. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
• v. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
• v. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
• v. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
• v. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.

watcher

• n. someone who watches or observes.
• n. someone who keeps vigil.
• n. a guard.

watchman

• n. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a…