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 Translation for 'keep watch' from English to French
être en faction [surveillance]to keep watch
mil.
faire la sentinelle
to keep watch
3 Words
surveiller qn./qc. de prèsto keep watch on sb./sth.
4 Words
surveiller les mouvements de qn.to keep watch on sb.'s movements
5+ Words
surveiller étroitement qn./qc.to keep a close watch on sb./sth.
Partial Matches
horl.
horlogerie {f} [objet]
watch
naut.
premier quart {m} du jour
morning watch
Gare !Watch out!
horl.
montre {f} de précision
precision watch
horl.
horloge {f} à quartz
quartz watch
horl.sport
chronomètre {m}
stop watch
regarder qc.to watch sth.
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horl.
montre {f} étanche
waterproof watch
horl.
montre {f} à gousset
fob watch
horl.
montre {f} de gousset
fob watch
horl.
montre(-bracelet) {f}
wrist watch
horl.
montre {f} de poche
pocket watch
mil.
ronde {f} [de soldats]
watch [soldier]
horl.
montre {f} à quartz
quartz watch
horl.
mouvement {m} d'horlogerie
watch mechanism
horl.
boîtier {m} de montre
watch case
garde {f} de nuitnight watch
surveillance {f}watch [lookout]
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sentinelle {f}watch [guard]
faire attentionto watch out
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Usage Examples English
  • Bandhavgarh Fort at Madhya Pradesh ("bandhav" as brother, "garh" as fort) was said to have been given by Rama to his brother Lakshmana to keep watch on Lanka.
  • Instead of being chosen for the first X-Men class, she is sent to spy on the Hellfire Club as Tessa, and to keep watch on Sebastian Shaw, something which returns to haunt her in the following years.
  • His sons established a series of permanent bases along the Ming border where the Mongols could keep watch on the Ming troops.
  • Between these two rooms, a narrow, covered way was built within the walls to keep watch on the room below.
  • Moudros Bay became a forward anchorage for the Greek fleet, which enabled it to keep watch on the Dardanelles and prevent a foray by the Ottoman Navy into the Aegean.

  • Citing how Pindar refers to her in his poems, "he implores her to keep watch around Himera, a port" and how she is often depicted holding a ship's rudder.
  • Meadlo took that as orders to only keep watch over them.
  • , at least one fuel attendant must be on hand to keep watch over potential safety violations and to render assistance to motorists whenever necessary.
  • He had helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military.
  • Embassy asked Americans in Yemen to keep watch for any suspicious terrorist activity following a terrorist incident on board a flight to the US that was linked to Yemen.

  • The 7th Indian Brigade and Divisional troops were allocated Greek Macedonia, Thrace and Thessaly, with instructions to keep watch on the borders of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
  • The player can switch between different cameras to keep watch over the girls and eavesdrop on conversations to follow the story and listen for clues.
  • The Númenóreans called them "the Witnesses of Manwë", believing he had sent them from Aman "to keep watch upon the Holy Mountain and upon all the land".
  • Soon after being elected to his first full term in 1970, he was tapped by several conservative activists, including Paul Weyrich, to form a group of conservative congressmen to keep watch on the Republican leadership, which at the time was seen as too moderate.
  • Kay and his deputy went to Ogden where they notified the police to keep watch for the Daltons.

  • Later that year, Grenville was commissioned to keep watch at sea on the western approaches to the Bristol Channel in case of the return of the Spanish Armada.
  • The animals keep watch for predators; they bark or snort when they see a predator and the harem stallion attacks predators to defend his harem.
  • Upon beginning the game's second chapter, players must keep watch on a Sanity meter [...] a green bar which decreases when the player is spotted by an enemy.
  • He also wrote "African Atto" under the pseudonym Mohammed X in 1970s, a martial arts guide for black militants; he claimed it was a means of developing a mailing list to keep watch over such activists.
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