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Definition: Night Watch |
Night WatchNoun1. A watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Night WatchSynonyms: graveyard watch (n), middle watch (n), midwatch (n). (additional references) |
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On the morning of the 30th anniversary of the death of Samuel Vimes' hero - the copper who taught Sam all he knows about being a copper - Vimes has an accident in the library of Unseen University which throws him 30 years back in time, and he himself becomes the copper who taught him all he knows...
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Crosswords: Night Watch |
| English words defined with "night watch": graveyard watch ♦ middle watch, midwatch ♦ sit up, stay up ♦ To sit up ♦ Watch and ward, Watch fire, Watch gun. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "night watch": Charleys ♦ Keepers ♦ Surt ♦ Watch on Board Ship. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Night Watch (1973) The Night Watch (1926) Night Watch (1995) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
night watch | 32 |
rembrandt night watch | 20 |
night watch painting | 4 |
sierra design night watch | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "night watch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shërbim roje natën, rojë nate (night watchman, nightman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | часове на безсъние, нощен пост, дежурен през нощта. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nattevagt (night duty, night nursing service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nachtwacht (watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | veille de nuit (night duty), quart de nuit, garde de nuit (night nursing service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nachtwache (night duty, vigil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βραδυνή βάρδια, βραδυνή φυλακή, νυχτερινή βάρδια (night shift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | éjjeli õrség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 火の番 (fire watchman), 宿直 (night guard), 夜詰め , 夜番 (night sentry), 夜回り (night watchman), 不寝番 (sleepless vigil, vigilance), 寝ずの番 (night watchman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねずば" (sleepless vigil, vigilance), ねずのば" (night watchman, sleepless vigil), しゅくちょく (night guard), ひのば" (fire watchman), ふし"ば" (sleepless vigil, vigilance), やば" (night sentry, savage, uncivilized), よまわり (night watchman), よば" (night sentry), よづめ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | arrey oie (bivouac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightnay atchway vista noturna da cidade, vigia (a household term, bye hole, guard, inspection window, keeper, look out, lookout, lookout man, observation hole, overlooker, peep hole, peephole, porthole, scuttle, sidescuttle, sight hole, taskmaster, tender, tenter, viewer, vigilante gang, ward, watch, watchman), guarda-noturno (nighty, watchman). (various references) strãjer (guard, guardsman, watchman), paznic de noapte, pazã de noapte. (various references) ночной дозор. (various references) noćna straža. (various references) turno de noche (night shift). (various references) nattvakt (Charley, Charlie, night guard, night watchman, nightman, night-watchman, watchman). (various references) gece nöbeti (night duty, vigil), gece bekçisi (night watchman). (various references) вахтовий (watchman), нічна варта, нічна вахта, нічний дозір, нічний дозорець. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-h-i-n-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: thatching. | |
-2 letters: chatting, hatching, watching, whinchat. | |
-3 letters: catting, chawing, gnathic, hatting, thawing. | |
-4 letters: aching, acting, canthi, cawing, hating, hawing, intact, tawing, thatch, twitch. | |
-5 letters: acing, actin, aitch, antic, attic, awing, chain, chang, chant, china, giant, hatch, hight, hitch, natch, night, tacit, taint, thigh, thing, tight, tinct, titan, twain, twang, watch, whang, which, wigan, wight, winch, witan, witch. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 67 68 74 57 61 74 63 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i g h t   W a t c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0067 0068 0074 0057 0061 0074 0063 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487573748625767866974 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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