Watch
nounid
156784·updated May 16, 2026“Watch” is retired. It does not tag in any document, it is excluded from the anchor pack, and it does not hold its lemma — so another term can take it.
deprecated
a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
polysemous
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
No variants recorded
This term has no surface-form variants in the lexicon yet, so it tags only its canonical form.
Framework definitions
- §1
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- §2
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- §3
- a small portable timepiece
- §4
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- §5
- a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
- §6
- the period during which someone, especially a guard, is on duty
Outgoing relationships
No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.