watched

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of watch

comparative more watched · superlative most watched

1. Monitored.

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

   2005, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, page 616

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   Terror reigns and the negroes are more watched than ever; free negroes ordered off by vigilance committees, and in the country men sleep with loaded firearms ‘handy!’ Little of all this appears on the surface, but men’s minds and faces are anxious.

   1867 January 7, en, “Sentiment of Louisiana. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   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.

   1996, Fred Alan Wolf, The Spiritual Universe, page 257

   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."

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

1. not comparableWearing a watch (a portable or wearable timepiece).

   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.

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

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   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.

   1969 September 1, Gail Sheehy, “The End of the Drinking Generation”, in New York, volume 2, number 35, page 63

   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.”

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

   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.

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

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

   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.

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