watchdog, guard dog
(noun) a dog trained to guard property
watchdog
(noun) a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste; “she is the global watchdog for human rights abuses”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
watchdog (plural watchdogs)
a guard dog
An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
watchdog (third-person singular simple present watchdogs, present participle watchdogging, simple past and past participle watchdogged)
To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.
(electronics) To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
• dog watch, dogwatch
Source: Wiktionary
Watch"dog`, n.
Definition: A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
