OBSERVES Synonyms

• see with attention

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• question closely

• put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

• a long fixed look

• look at with fixed eyes

• look over carefully

• come to see in an official or professional capacity

• examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification

• an announcement containing information about an event

• the act of noticing or paying attention

• a request for payment

• advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract

• a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

• polite or favorable attention

• a short critical review

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• notice or perceive

• make or write a comment on

• express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with

• a person who is of equal standing with another in a group

• a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage

• look searchingly

• the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

• an image produced by scanning

• examine minutely or intensely

• examine hastily

• make a wide, sweeping search of

• conform to a metrical pattern

• move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

• read metrically

• obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources

• to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail

• examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification

• the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located

• perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

• perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

• perceive or be contemporaneous with

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• deem to be

• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

• see or watch

• come together

• find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

• be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

• go to see for professional or business reasons

• go to see for a social visit

• go to see a place, as for entertainment

• take charge of or deal with

• receive as a specified guest

• date regularly; have a steady relationship with

• see and understand, have a good eye

• deliberate or decide

• observe as if with an eye

• observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

• undergo or live through a difficult experience

• conduct someone someplace

• match or meet

• make sense of; assign a meaning to

• (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors

• a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people

• catch sight of

• watch, observe, or inquire secretly

• catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes

• secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage

• a detailed critical inspection

• short descriptive summary (of events)

• the act of looking or seeing or observing

• consider in a comprehensive way

• look over carefully or inspect

• keep under surveillance

• hold a review (of troops)

• make a survey of; for statistical purposes

• plot a map of (land)

• a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

• the visual percept of a region

• the act of looking or seeing or observing

• the range of the eye

• a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

• a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof

• purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of'

• graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

• the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

• outward appearance

• deem to be

• look at carefully; study mentally

• see or watch

• a small portable timepiece

• a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty

• a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

• the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

• the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

• look attentively

• follow with the eyes or the mind

• see or watch

• observe with attention

• be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful

• observe or determine by looking

• find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

• the financial means whereby one lives

• the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

• a cell in a jail or prison

• cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity

• continue a certain state, condition, or activity

• retain possession of

• stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state

• conform one's action or practice to

• stick to correctly or closely

• look after; be the keeper of; have charge of

• maintain by writing regular records

• supply with room and board

• allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature

• supply with necessities and support

• fail to spoil or rot

• behave as expected during of holidays or rites

• maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger

• to rear

• retain rights to

• store or keep customarily

• have as a supply

• maintain for use and service

• hold and prevent from leaving

• prevent the action or expression of

• prevent (food) from rotting

• behave as expected during of holidays or rites

• have a celebration

• assign great social importance to

• a brief written record

• a short personal letter

• a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

• a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling

• a characteristic emotional quality

• a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

• a comment or instruction (usually added)

• high status importance owing to marked superiority

• a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time

• make mention of

• notice or perceive

• observe with care or pay close attention to

• make a written note of

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

• make a discovery, make a new finding

• find unexpectedly

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• see for the first time; make a discovery

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• a productive insight

• the act of discovering something

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

• perceive or be contemporaneous with

• get something or somebody for a specific purpose

• make a discovery, make a new finding

• obtain through effort or management

• decide on and make a declaration about

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

• get or find back; recover the use of

• succeed in reaching; arrive at

• accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation