Definition of Listening watch

1. Noun. A watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch.

Exact synonyms: Continuous Receiver Watch
Generic synonyms: Vigil, Watch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Listening Watch

listen
listen in
listen up
listenability
listenable
listened
listener
listeners
listenership
listenerships
listening
listening post
listening posts
listening station
listening stations
listening watch (current term)
listenings
listens
lister
lister plough
lister plow
listeria
listeria infections
listeria meningitis
listerial
listerian
listerias
listeriolysin
listeriolysins
listerioses

Literary usage of Listening watch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Navigation Rules, International-Inland by D A Appelbaum (1998)
"(b) Each person who is required to maintain a listening watch under section 5 of the Act shall, when necessary, transmit and confirm, on the designated ..."

2. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"... to the combustion chamber of a rocket engine. listening watch—(DOD) A continuous receiver watch established for the reception of traffic addressed to, ..."

3. The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896)
"... strain Sung to the listening watch on Bethlehem's plain, And now the shepherds, hastening on their way, Sought the still hamlet where the Infant lay. ..."

4. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"The choral host had closed the Angel's strain Sung to the listening watch on Bethlehem's plain, And now the shepherds, hastening on their way, ..."

5. Composition and Rhetoric by Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe (1908)
"METHODS FOR INCREASING ONE'S VOCABULARY In Reading and Listening, Watch for New Words.—Books and magazines will furnish rich opportunity for adding to one's ..."

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