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say it: wahch
watch is a verb and noun meaning "look attentively". It is pronounced /ˈwɑtʃ/ — wahch. It carries 13 recorded senses.
follow with the eyes or the mind
“Keep an eye on the baby, please!”
“The world is watching Sarajevo”
“She followed the men with the binoculars”
be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful
“Watch out for pickpockets!”
observe or determine by looking
“Watch how the dog chases the cats away”
a small portable timepiece
a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for watch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.