the activity of managing or exerting control over something | a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe |
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) |
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | a small portable timepiece |
power to direct or determine | a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event |
discipline in personal and social activities | a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty |
great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty |
a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | |
the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | |
a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | |
a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | |
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | |