单词 | watcher |
释义 | watcher (once / 1109 pages) n WORD FAMILY watcher: watchers+/midwatch: midwatches/unwatchful: unwatchfully/watch: midwatch, watched, watcher, watches, watchful, watching/watchful: unwatchful, watchfulest, watchfully, watchfulness/watchfulness: watchfulnesses/watching: watchings USAGE EXAMPLESMore than 20 million Americans were regular watchers in the show's early years, falling to around six million in 2015. Reuters(Dec 29, 2016) Industry watchers say that the one situation that manufacturers want to avoid at all costs is a toy that hurts children. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Many market watchers were forecasting only modest gains for this year, for example. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1n a guard who keeps watch Syn|Hypo|Hyper security guard, watchman bank guard a security guard at a bank fire watcher(during World War II in Britain) someone whose duty was to watch for fires caused by bombs dropped from the air lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watcha person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event night watchmana watchman who works during the night patrollersomeone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area port watcher, portwatchera watchman on a wharf guard a person who keeps watch over something or someone 2n a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body Hyper individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 3n a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) sky watchers discovered a new star Syn|Hypo|Hyper looker, spectator, viewer, witness browser a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular bystandera nonparticipant spectator cheerera spectator who shouts encouragement eyewitnessa spectator who can describe what happened gawkera spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness motion-picture fan, moviegoersomeone who goes to see movies oglera viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person looker-on, onlookersomeone who looks on playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoersomeone who attends the theater rubberneck, rubberneckera person who stares inquisitively spya secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people starera viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility) Peeping Tom, peeper, voyeura viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others first-nightersomeone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions groundlingin Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section snoop, snoopera spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others shadow, shadower, taila spy employed to follow someone and report their movements beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses |
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