watchedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

watched

1. simple past and past participle of watch

形容詞

watched (not comparable)

1. Wearing a watch.
   • 1969 September 1, Gail Sheehy, “The End of the Drinking Generation”, in New York, volume 2, number 35, page 63:

     Passing the third checkpoint, the third smiling [sic] state policeman, a fellow by the name of R. C. Anderson, raises his big silver-watched wrist and touches the brim of his gray felt Stetson (yes, he does) as one faintly remembers Wendell Corey once doing from high on a Canadian Mountie snow peak overlooking something like a distressed Linda Darnell.

   • 1998, Ev Ehrlich (Everett M. Ehrlich), Big Government, Warner Books:

     Conrad Scott then grabbed Senator Moss’s watched wrist and thrust it into the air, allowing the crowd to exercise their delirium one last time.

   • 2007, L.M. Favier, A Sackful of Quarters, Xlibris, page 92:

     Kara grimaced at the last but waved it away with flick of her Swatch watched wrist saying, “Angie you’re exaggerating. It can’t have been that bad. You seemed happy. You had your share.”

   • 2015, Kathleen Alcott, Infinite Home, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, page 90:

     Edward surfaced from his performance to see a man who appeared composed of only sharp angles standing in the foyer, where the light caught his gold-watched wrist.

   • 2016, Elizabeth Mackinlay, Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist: Storying Our Experiences in Higher Education, Sense Publishers, →ISBN, page 76:

     So too the human shield protecting the pathway beyond the gates, a young man in a security uniform who cheerfully declared upon espying me, ‘Only nine seconds exactly to go until we open!’ while waving his watched wrist in the air.

   • 2016, Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty, Flatiron Books, →ISBN:

     He wasn’t looking up but was instead staring straight ahead at the school principal, his legs crossed, a Rolex-watched wrist draped languidly over one knee in an almost feminine pose.

   • 2018, Patrick Gale, Take Nothing With You, Tinder Press, →ISBN:

     The hairy, gold-watched wrist of an airline captain changing gear in a sports car while enjoying a Rothmans cigarette stood for all he could never be, even as it opened out a little hollow of confused desire within him.

2. Monitored.
   • 1996, Fred Alan Wolf, The Spiritual Universe, page 257:

     You would certainly think the watched quantum pot would also boil. It turns out, because of the vigilant observations, the transition never occurs; the watched quantum pot never boils.

   • 2005, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, page 616:

     The upper bound only needs to be updated when one of the watched M variables is assigned to false.

   • 2005, Steven Fein, Instructor's Resource Manual: Social Psychology, page 461:

     To mimic the effect, students are asked to undertake an activity, with you, the instructor, monitoring ony half the class. Afterwards, you compare the work produced by the "watched" students with the work produced by the "unwatched."

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