sport vs watch

sport

noun
  • A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. 

  • Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. 

  • A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question) 

  • Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy. 

  • A sportsman; a gambler. 

  • One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes. 

  • A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. 

  • Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing. 

  • Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport. 

  • A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects. 

verb
  • To display; to have as a notable feature. 

  • To close (a door). 

  • To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. 

  • To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. 

  • To amuse oneself, to play. 

  • To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 

  • To divert; to amuse; to make merry. 

  • To represent by any kind of play. 

watch

noun
  • The act of guarding and observing someone or something. 

  • A portable or wearable timepiece. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 act as a lookout. 

  • To attend to dangers to or regarding. 

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