Watch vs. Clock

Watchnoun

A portable or wearable timepiece.

Watchnoun

The act of guarding and observing someone or something.

Watchnoun

A particular time period when guarding is kept.

Watchnoun

A person or group of people who guard.

Watchnoun

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

Watchnoun

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

Watchnoun

(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).

Watchnoun

The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.

Watchverb

(transitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.

Watchverb

(transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.

Watchverb

(transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.

Watchverb

(transitive) To be wary or cautious of.

Watchverb

(transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.

Watchverb

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

Watchverb

(intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.

Watchverb

(intransitive) To act as a lookout.

Watchverb

To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.

Watchverb

To be awake.

Watchnoun

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.

Watchnoun

One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.

Watchnoun

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

Watchnoun

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.

Watchnoun

A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

Watchnoun

An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.

Watchverb

To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.

Watchverb

To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.

Watchverb

To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.

Watchverb

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.

Watchverb

To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; - said of a buoy.

Watchverb

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.

Watchverb

To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.

Watchnoun

a small portable timepiece

Watchnoun

a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty

Watchnoun

a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

Watchnoun

the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty

Watchnoun

a person employed to watch for something to happen

Watchnoun

a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

Watchverb

look attentively;

Watchverb

follow with the eyes or the mind;

Watchverb

see or watch;

Watchverb

observe with attention;

Watchverb

be vigilant, be on the lookout, be on one's guard, be careful;

Watchverb

observe or determine by looking;

Watchverb

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort;

Watchverb

look at or observe attentively over a period of time

Watchverb

keep under careful, protective, or secret observation

Watchverb

observe and guard in a protective way

Watchverb

follow closely or maintain an interest in

Watchverb

exercise care, caution, or restraint about

Watchverb

look out or be on the alert for

Watchverb

be careful

Watchverb

be careful (used as a warning or threat)

Watchverb

remain awake for the purpose of religious observance

Watchnoun

a small timepiece worn typically on a strap on one's wrist

Watchnoun

an act or instance of carefully observing someone or something over a period of time

Watchnoun

a period during which a person is stationed to look out for danger or trouble, typically at night

Watchnoun

a fixed period of duty on a ship, usually lasting four hours

Watchnoun

the officers and crew on duty during a watch.

Watchnoun

a shift worked by firefighters or police officers

Watchnoun

a watchman or group of watchmen who patrolled and guarded the streets of a town before the introduction of the police force

Watchnoun

a film or programme considered in terms of its appeal to the public

Watchnoun

a flock of nightingales

Watch

A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities.

Clocknoun

An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.

Clocknoun

(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.

Clocknoun

(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.

Clocknoun

The seed head of a dandelion.

Clocknoun

A time clock.

Clocknoun

A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.

Clocknoun

A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.

Clockverb

(transitive) To measure the duration of.

Clockverb

(transitive) To measure the speed of.

Clockverb

To hit (someone) heavily.

Clockverb

(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something

Clockverb

To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.

Clockverb

To beat a video game.

Clockverb

(transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.

Clockverb

To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

Clockverb

To hatch.

Clocknoun

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.

Clocknoun

A watch, esp. one that strikes.

Clocknoun

The striking of a clock.

Clocknoun

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

Clocknoun

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).

Clockverb

To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

Clockverb

To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

Clocknoun

a timepiece that shows the time of day

Clockverb

measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time;

Clock

A clock is a device used to measure, verify, keep, and indicate time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month, and the year.