peer vs watch

peer

verb
  • To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. 

  • To make equal in rank. 

  • To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic. 

noun
  • Someone who pees, someone who urinates. 

  • Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else). 

  • A look; a glance. 

  • A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners. 

  • Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else). 

  • A comrade; a companion; an associate. 

watch

verb
  • To act as a lookout. 

  • To mind, attend, or guard. 

  • To be wary or cautious of. 

  • To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place. 

  • To be vigilant or on one's guard. 

  • To look at, see, or view for a period of time. 

  • To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil. 

  • To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention. 

  • To attend to dangers to or regarding. 

noun
  • A portable or wearable timepiece. 

  • The act of guarding and observing someone or something. 

  • A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking. 

  • The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. 

  • A particular time period when guarding is kept. 

  • A person or group of people who guard. 

  • 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). 

  • The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time. 

  • A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch. 

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