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Watch can be a noun or a verb.

watch used as a noun:

  1. A portable or wearable timepiece.
    "More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets."
  2. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
    "The second watch of the night began at midnight."
  3. A person or group of people who guard.
    "The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates."
  4. A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
  5. 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).

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

watch used as a verb:

  1. To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
    "Watching the clock will not make time go faster."
  2. To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
    "Watch this!"
  3. To mind, attend, or guard.
    "Please watch my suitcase for a minute."
  4. To be wary or cautious of.
    "You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying."
  5. To attend to dangers to or regarding.
    "Watch your head.; Watch your step."
  6. To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil
  7. To be vigilant or on one's guard
  8. To act as a lookout

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is watch?

As detailed above, 'watch' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets.
  2. Noun usage: The second watch of the night began at midnight.
  3. Noun usage: The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
  4. Verb usage: Watching the clock will not make time go faster.
  5. Verb usage: I'm tired of watching TV.
  6. Verb usage: Watch this!
  7. Verb usage: Put a little baking soda in some vinegar and watch what happens.
  8. Verb usage: Please watch my suitcase for a minute.
  9. Verb usage: He has to watch the kids that afternoon.
  10. Verb usage: You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying.
  11. Verb usage: Watch your head.; Watch your step.
  12. Verb usage: Watch yourself when you talk to him.
  13. Verb usage: Watch what you say.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of watch are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of watch, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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