picket vs watcher

watcher vs picket

picket and watcher both are nouns.

picket is a verb but watcher is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
picket	Yes	No	Yes	No
watcher	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, watcher is a hypernym of picket; that is, watcher is a word with a broader meaning than picket:

picket: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
watcher: a guard who keeps watch

Other hypernyms of picket include security guard, watchman.

picket (noun)	watcher (noun)
a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake	a guard who keeps watch
a wooden strip forming part of a fence	a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
a vehicle performing sentinel duty	a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

picket (verb)	watcher (verb)
fasten with a picket
serve as pickets or post pickets

Difference between picket and watcher

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