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# observed

«observed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Watched or looked at carefully, often to learn something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past and past participle of «observe»: observe, observes, observed, observing); adjective (observed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Watched or looked at carefully, often to learn something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#m1)

2) Noticed or saw something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#m2)

3) (formal) Said or remarked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#m3)

4) Obeyed a rule or kept a custom (observed the speed limit, observed a minute's silence). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in science: you write down what you observed in an experiment («observed results»). In stories, a character notices something. In formal speech, people keep rules or customs. Phrases: «observed that», «was observed», «observed values».

### examples

- We observed the caterpillar every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x1)
- I observed that the ice melted faster in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x2)
- Write down what you observed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x3)
- «It's getting late,» she observed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x4)
- The class observed a minute's silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x5)
- Drivers observed the speed limit near the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x6)
- The birds were observed in the garden at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x7)
- "It is terribly warm here!" he observed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/#x8)

### note

Past form of «observe»; nouns «observation» and «observer». In science, an observation is what you see, not what you guess. In maths and statistics, «observed values» are the real measured numbers, not predicted ones.

### In the corpora

- [Hawking's leaking, called Hawking radiation, has never been directly observed, because it is far too faint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/25-black-holes/18/)
- [I have remembered Thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have observed Thy law.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2218/)
- [I beheld them that were faithless, and strove with them; because they observed not Thy word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2323/)
- [My soul hath observed Thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2332/)
- [I have observed Thy precepts and Thy testimonies; for all my ways are before Thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2333/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «observed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.