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Watches
- noun -
- a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- a small portable timepiece
- be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful; "Watch out for pickpockets!"
- follow with the eyes or the mind;
- look attentively; "watch a basketball game"
- observe or determine by looking; "Watch how the dog chases the cats away"
- observe with attention; "They watched as the murderer was executed"
- see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie"
- the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
Weights
- noun - (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force; "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
- present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- weight down with a load
- what a person weights.
Welches
- verb - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
Welshes
- verb - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
Wenches
- noun - frequent prostitutes
- informal terms for a (young) woman
Whishes
- verb - make a sibilant sound
- move with a whishing sound; "The car whished past her"
Winches
- noun - lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
- pull or lift up with or as if with a winch; "winch up the slack line"
Witches
- noun - a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
- a believer in Wicca
- a female sorcerer or magician
- an ugly evil-looking old woman
- cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
Wooshes
- verb - move with a sibilant sound; "He whooshed the doors open"
Wrights
- noun - influential United States architect (1869-1959)
- someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)
- United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)
- United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)
- United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)
- United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
- United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)