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act |
An act is a short performance that is fun to watch. Musicians, clowns, and street performers have acts. [1/9 definitions] |
anyhow |
Let's say you don't like a certain movie, but you watch it with your friend anyhow. It means that not liking the movie doesn't stop you from watching the movie. You watch the movie anyway. |
assumption |
something that is supposed or believed without questioning. For example, if you ask someone whether she is allowed to watch TV during dinner, you have made an assumption that there is a TV in her house. Assumptions are ideas people have that are not based on proven facts. An assumption can be correct or incorrect. [1/2 definitions] |
attend |
When you attend something, it means you go to something and you watch it or take part in it. When you attend a baseball game, it means that you go to the game and watch it. [1/4 definitions] |
audience |
The audience for a show on TV is all the people who actually watch it. An audience is all the people reached by television or radio shows, or by newspapers, books, or magazines. [1/3 definitions] |
ballet |
If you go to see a ballet, you watch ballet dancers perform to music on a stage. A ballet often has a story, so a ballet is like a play performed by dancers. [1/2 definitions] |
box1 |
a section of a theater in which a small group of people sit to watch the show. [1/5 definitions] |
browser |
A browser is a computer program that helps you explore the internet. When you want to go on the internet, the first thing you do is to open your browser. Your browser lets you visit different websites, play games, watch videos, and find all kinds of information online. |
care |
to watch over or tend to the needs of (usually followed by "for"). [1/8 definitions] |
cassette |
A cassette is a case, usually made of plastic, that has film, audio tape, or video tape inside. You put the cassette inside a tape player to watch a movie or listen to the recording on the tape. |
channel |
If there is something on TV that you don't like, maybe you will change the channel so you can watch something different. [1/3 definitions] |
clock1 |
a device, other than a watch, for measuring and showing the time. [2 definitions] |
cruise |
A cruise is a pleasure trip on a ship. When people take a cruise, they usually sleep in rooms on the ship and spend several days or more traveling around just for fun. On a big cruise ship, there are a lot of things for people to do, like play games, swim in the swimming pool, dance, watch movies, or eat in one of the dining rooms. Sometimes the ship stops in places where people can get off and go exploring or do shopping. [1/4 definitions] |
crystal |
the clear cover on the face of a watch. [1/5 definitions] |
den |
A den is a comfortable room in a house where people read, watch TV, play games, or do other things to relax. [1/2 definitions] |
dial |
the face of a clock or watch. [1/6 definitions] |
digital |
When we say that a clock or watch is digital, we mean that it shows the time using a row of numbers. When it is ten minutes after twelve o'clock, for example, a digital clock will show 12:10. On a digital clock, the hour is shown by the numbers on the left, and the minutes are shown by the numbers on the right. There is a mark with two dots between the hour and the minutes. This mark is called a colon. [1/3 definitions] |
drama |
a state, situation, or series of events that raises strong emotions or is very compelling to watch. [1/4 definitions] |
dramatic |
If something is dramatic, it shows or causes a lot of emotion. A dramatic scene in a movie makes people feel strong emotion when they watch it. If a person is being dramatic, they are showing strong emotion. If someone reads something in a dramatic way, they make other people feel the emotion in what they are reading. [1/3 definitions] |
drive-in |
an outdoor theater at which people watch movies on a very large screen while sitting in their cars. [1/2 definitions] |
dull |
When something that you hear, watch, or read is dull, it is not interesting to you. It is boring. [1/4 definitions] |
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