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OVERWATCH

Definition: OVERWATCH

OVERWATCH

Transitive verb

1. To weary or exhaust by watching.

2. To watch too much.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"OVERWATCH" is a common misspelling or typo for: overmatch.


Frequency of Internet Keywords: OVERWATCH

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

overwatch

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: OVERWATCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-o-r-t-v-w"

-2 letters: overact, watcher.

-3 letters: avocet, avower, cavort, chawer, chorea, coater, corvet, covert, hector, ochrea, octave, orache, rachet, reavow, rochet, rotche, thawer, thrave, throve, tocher, troche, vector, wharve, wreath, wretch.

-4 letters: actor, avert, cahow, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, chare, chart, cheat, chert, chore, cover, covet, cower, crate, crave, crwth, earth, hater, haver, havoc, heart.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OVERWATCH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 56 45 52 57 41 54 43 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010111 01000001 01010100 01000011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#87 &#65 &#84 &#67 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0057 0041 0054 0043 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

495639525735543742

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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