The act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"
Copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
The rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) a person employed to watch for something to happen the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty a small portable timepiece find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" observe or determine by looking; "Watch how the dog chases the cats away" be vigilant, be on the lookout, be on one's guard, be careful; "Watch out for pickpockets!" observe with attention; "They watched as the murderer was executed" see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie" follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars" look attentively; "watch a basketball game"
A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior characteristic or habitual practice how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
(Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God') French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
A state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon