watchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /wɒt͡ʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɔt͡ʃ/, /wɑt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɒtʃ

語源 1

As a noun, from Middle English wacche, from 古期英語 wæċċe. See below for verb form.

名詞

watch (複数形 watches)

1. A portable or wearable timepiece.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

   More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets.

2. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 12”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     shepherds keeping watch by night

   • (Can we date this quote by Addison かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     All the long night their mournful watch they keep.

3. A particular time period when guarding is kept.

   The second watch of the night began at midnight.

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v]:

     I did stand my watch upon the hill.

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance)​, [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:

     Might we but hear […] / Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock / Count the night watches to his feathery dames.

4. A person or group of people who guard.

   The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 27:65:

     Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

5. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     He upbraids Iago, that he made him / Brave me upon the watch.

6. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
7. (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).
8. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
   • 2004, Charles P. Nemeth, Criminal law:

     A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story.

   • 2016, Andrew Bullock, David Brent REVIEW: Life on the Road goes from painfully funny to just plain painful. Ouch (in Sunday Express, 11 August)

     The first third of the film is laugh after laugh; […] But half an hour in and this movie gets unnervingly dark and is an uncomfortable watch at times.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English wacchen, from 古期英語 wæċċan, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną.

動詞

watch (三人称単数 現在形 watches, 現在分詞 watching, 過去形および過去分詞形 watched)

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

   Watching the clock will not make time go faster.

   I'm tired of watching TV.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

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

   Watch this!

   Put a little baking soda in some vinegar and watch what happens.

3. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.

   Please watch my suitcase for a minute.

   He has to watch the kids that afternoon.

   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

     […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment かつ pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”

4. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.

   You should watch that guy. He has a reputation for lying.

5. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.

   watch your head;  watch your step

   Watch yourself when you talk to him.

   Watch what you say.

6. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
7. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.

   For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.

8. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
9. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:

      So on the morne Sir Trystram, Sir Gareth and Sir Dynadan arose early and went unto Sir Palomydes chambir, and there they founde hym faste aslepe, for he had all nyght wacched [...].

使用する際の注意点

• When used transitively to mean look at something, there is an implication that the direct object is something which is capable of changing.

反意語

• ignore

派生語

参考

• wait
• wake