watched

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of watch

adj

1. (not-comparable)Wearing a watch.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.””

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. (not-comparable)Monitored.

   “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.”

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

   “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."”