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Variant of observe

observe Definition

ob·serve (əb zʉrv′)

transitive verb observed -·served′, observing -·serv′·ing

  1. to adhere to, follow, keep, or abide by (a law, custom, duty, rule, etc.)
  2. to celebrate or keep (a holiday, etc.) according to custom
    1. to notice or perceive (something)
    2. to pay special attention to
  4. to arrive at as a conclusion after study
  5. to say or mention casually; remark
  6. to examine and study scientifically

Etymology: ME observen < OFr observer < L observare, to watch, note < ob- (see ob-) + servare, to keep or hold < IE base *ser-, to watch over, guard > Sans haraiti, (he) guards

intransitive verb

  1. to take notice
  2. to comment or remark (on or upon)
  3. to act as an observer

Related Forms:

observed Synonyms

observed

modif.

  1. Noticed

    seen, noted, marked, attended, detected, perceived, viewed, espied, regarded, looked at, looked over, found, overlooked, heeded, ascertained, pointed out, minded, watched, noticed, inspected, discerned, discovered, surveyed, descried, beheld, contemplated, scrutinized, revealed, realized, examined, listened to, heard, checked, checked off; see also recognized.

    Antonyms unnoticed*, unseen*, unperceived.

  2. Commemorated

    recalled, memorialized, preserved, respected, freshened, kept, celebrated, solemnized, esteemed, reverenced, honored, venerated, sanctified, regarded, worshiped, kept in mind, minded, consecrated; see also remembered.

    Antonyms abandoned*, forgotten*, desecrated.

observed Usage Examples

Object

  • silence: People in Tower Hamlets also observed two minutes silence on November 11 in memory of the war heroes.
  • transit: Wednesday 7th May 2003 Transit of Mercury We observed the transit at Lesley's home then at Green Witch.

Preposition: on

  • occasion: This was observed on two later occasions by other witnesses.

Subject

  • observer: Time in a moving system will be observed by a stationary observer to be running slower by the following factor.

Preposition: during

  • interview: They highlight many of the issues that they have observed during interviews with disabled students.

Modifying Another Word

  • experimentally: Estimates suggest moving ESs may be experimentally observed as approximately 10 fs pulses with velocity up to 1/10th that of light.

Used with why or when

  • when: All are able to make life and all can be observed when that life becomes intelligent.
  • which: No systematic variation in the dipole tilt angle was observed which could explain these observations.
  • where: But some problems have been observed where this has not worked.

Present participle complement

  • nest: Twelve species were observed nesting at the marsh, 30 % in cattail and 30 % in Palo Verde trees.

Preposition: in

  • cps: After august and medicaid eligibility variables uninsured inappropriately dilutes observed in the cps.
  • patient: Caution should be especially observed in patients with hepatic insufficiency.
  • simulation: While drift may be observed in direct numerical simulations, these computations are often expensive and lack generality.

Preposition: by

  • observer: Time in a moving system will be observed by a stationary observer to be running slower by the following factor.
observed Quotes

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it.

—Burroughs,William S(eward)

Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd: I am always about in the Quad. And that's why the tree Will continue to be Since observed by Yours faithfully,God. See Knox 476:22.

—Anonymous

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

—Trollope, Anthony