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Observing   /əbzˈərvɪŋ/   Listen
Observing

adjective
1.
Quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception.  Synonym: observant.



Observe

verb
(past & past part. observed; pres. part. observing)
1.
Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.  Synonyms: detect, discover, find, notice.  "We found traces of lead in the paint"
2.
Make mention of.  Synonyms: mention, note, remark.  "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing"
3.
Observe with care or pay close attention to.  Synonyms: note, take note.
4.
Watch attentively.
5.
Show respect towards.  Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, respect.
6.
Behave as expected during of holidays or rites.  Synonyms: celebrate, keep.  "Celebrate Christmas" , "Observe Yom Kippur"
7.
Follow with the eyes or the mind.  Synonyms: follow, keep an eye on, watch, watch over.  "The world is watching Sarajevo" , "She followed the men with the binoculars"
8.
Stick to correctly or closely.  Synonyms: keep, maintain.  "Keep count" , "I cannot keep track of all my employees"
9.
Conform one's action or practice to.  Synonym: keep.  "She never keeps her promises" , "We kept to the original conditions of the contract"



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"Observing" Quotes from Famous Books



... naturally a good deal exhausted, but had not hurt himself in the least. His saddle, a favorite polo one, was much knocked about, and had been twisted under his belly. It took me some time to put him to rights, and in the meantime I had ample opportunities of observing the spot into which ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... so well to the sermon, however, my eyes had now and then wandered, not only to Adela's face, but all over the church as well; and I could not help observing, a few pillars off, and partly round a corner, the face of a young man—well, he was about thirty, I should guess—out of which looked a pair of well-opened hazel eyes, with rather notable eyelashes. Not that I, with my own weak pair of washed-out ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 1 • George MacDonald

... help observing, as we marched abaft, the gloom which seemed to have fallen on the ship. Not that the gay young lordlings did not still swagger and laugh; but it seemed to me their mirth was more hollow than it had been, and, when now and again a sullen shot ...
— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed

... be better suited for the business? It was not without danger, but he was without fear. It needed preparation and insight; and what had he done since he was a child but prepare himself with the best culture of Japan, and acquire in his excursions the power and habit of observing? ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... on the best paper, and no pains have been spared, at least on my part, to render it as correct as possible, having read every proof-sheet three times. I must here take the liberty of observing that the work executed in London, and of which a copy was delivered to me to print from, abounds in errors of every kind and reflects little credit on the person who edited it; no systematic order is observed ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow


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