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# wristwatch

«wristwatch» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small clock you wear on a strap or band around your wrist** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wristwatch, wristwatches)

### meaning for a pupil

A small clock you wear on a strap or band around your wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons, children read the time on a wristwatch, in analogue (with hands) or digital (with numbers). In history, wristwatches became common about a hundred years ago; before that people carried pocket watches. Today smartwatches are a kind of wristwatch.

### examples

- Grandpa gave me his old wristwatch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x1)
- Check your wristwatch to see if it's playtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x2)
- My wristwatch has hands and numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x3)
- A digital wristwatch shows the time as numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x4)
- She wears her wristwatch on her left wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x5)
- Soldiers used wristwatches in the First World War. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wristwatch/#x6)

### note

One word. Plural adds -es: wristwatches. Usually people just say «watch». The «w» in «wrist» is silent: «rist».

### In the corpora

- [An anachronism is something that belongs to another time, such as a Roman soldier with a wristwatch or a Viking with a smartphone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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