0 to look at something for a period of time, especially something that is changing or moving:
If you want me to watch the kids for a couple of hours while you go out, just let me know.
Bonner watched helplessly as they drove away without him.
[ + question word ] Just watch how he slides that ball in past the goalkeeper.
[ + obj + -ing verb ] I sit by the window and watch people walking past.
I got the feeling I was being watched.
[ + obj + infinitive without to ] I watched him get into a cab.
1 to be careful of something:
[ + question word ] Watch what you're doing with that knife, Jim, it's sharp.
[ + (that) ] Watch (that) you don't get glue on your fingers.
I have to watch my weight (= be careful not to become too heavy) now I'm not exercising so much.
2 a small clock that is worn on a strap around the wrist or, sometimes, connected to a piece of clothing by a chain:
3 the activity of watching or giving attention to something or someone, especially to make certain nothing bad happens:
4 a small clock usually worn on a strap around the wrist, or sometimes carried in a pocket:
5 an act of guarding someone or something to make sure the person or property stays safe and in the right place:
The conversational data led me to seek out other texts that contained references to body size, beauty pageants, and gendered practices of watching one's weight.
Instead, it was the practice of watching one's weight that was gendered.
Interestingly, when we watched the listenersubjects making their decisions, we noted that they made them at similar points in the tape.
Are they likely to be perceived by an audience listening to and watching an opera in the theatre?
There are watches that can be worn to give you full computing power or just as or, in addition to serve as a cellphone.
Respondents who reported watching a particular programme six or seven days a week were treated as watching five days a week.
Consider that there is no trivial link between the sight of watching someone else scratch their nose, and the experience of scratching your own nose.
The experience of watching a television broadcast is far less involving.
