a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | the activity of managing or exerting control over something |
the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc |
a small portable timepiece | a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine |
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | power to direct or determine |
a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty | discipline in personal and social activities |
the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty | great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity |
| 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 |