Word Finder - observe

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To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.

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From this vantage point we can observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitat.

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To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).

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Please observe all posted speed limits.

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To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence).

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To comment on something; to make an observation.

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The senator observed that the bill would be detrimental to his constituents.

I find it interesting to observe Molly.

Let them run in the fields, learn about animals, and observe real things.

A Cossack patrol would have sufficed to observe the enemy.

Seeing the bet, he decided he wanted to stick around long enough to observe a few more events in the women's futures.

Here it is enough to observe that the highly advanced doctrines of the distinctive character of Yahweh, as ascribed to the 8th century B.C., presuppose a foundation and development.

I deem it my duty to report to Your Majesty the condition of the various corps I have had occasion to observe during different stages of the last two or three days' march.

In general, one may often observe that freedom which is characteristic of early and unscientific historians.

Then it is beautiful to observe with what patience, sweetness, and perseverance Helen endeavours to bring the unruly fingers of her little friend into proper position.

I went there frequently to observe their habits.

The astronomers forever comment on and observe them.

But one has only to observe that hive to realize that there is no longer any life in it.

Few are found to observe the law concerning the Five Hours of Prayer, and many fail to put in an appearance at the Friday congregational services in the mosques.

Step back and observe what you've drawn.

It is instructive to observe in Egypt the form which old traditions have taken in Manetho (Maspero, Rec. de travaux, xxvii., 1905, 1.22 seq.); cf.

Beyond Shamshevo, Dolokhov was to observe the road in the same way, to find out at what distance there were other French troops.

A roll, it is said, was found in the Temple, its contents struck terror into the hearts of the priests and king, and it led to a solemn covenant before Yahweh to observe the provisions of the law-book which had been so opportunely recovered.

A further motive for their attitude was that Francis Joseph, unlike his predecessor, had not taken the oath to observe the Hungarian constitution, which it was the avowed object of Schwarzenberg to overthrow.

We may also observe here that, like Epictetus, he is by no means so decided on the subject of suicide as the older Stoics.

It is interesting to observe, as will be shown later, that during the Mesozoic era there was a land-mass in the north of Asia and another in the south, and between them lay the sea in which ordinary marine sediments were deposited.

It is interesting to observe that a later development of transport between Manchester and Liverpool, namely, the Manchester Cotton landed at the Port of Manchester since the Canal was opened.

It is usual to observe with this cover on, but some observers, e.g.

It is important to observe that in resting the fame of Pheidias upon the sculptures of the Parthenon we proceed with little evidence.

While making these reservations, it is at thesame time right to observe that certain Italian communities were more advanced upon the path of independence than others.

When we recollect the empiricist starting-point of science, it is curious to observe with what vehemence the average man of science now rejects free will.

Addressing the gathering, Langton referred to the laws of Edward the Confessor as "good laws," which the king ought to observe, and then mentioned the charter granted by Henry I.

I also observe that some external links should be allowed, particularly to Wikipedia, but understand the need to keep spammers at bay.

Mounds of bones marked his road, witnesses of devastations which other historians record in detail; Christian prisoners, from Germany, he found in the heart of "Tartary" (at Talas); the ceremony of passing between two fires he was compelled to observe, as a bringer of gifts to a dead khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.

But when he renounced his promise to observe the constitutions his conduct was reprobated by the other bishops, although approved by the pope.

Sixth, I did not come to Washington to idly observe the squandering of the public's airwaves.

Used by His Majesty King George III to observe the 1769 transit of Venus.

Boris, coolly looking at Helene's dazzling bare shoulders which emerged from a dark, gold-embroidered, gauze gown, talked to her of old acquaintances and at the same time, unaware of it himself and unnoticed by others, never for an instant ceased to observe the Emperor who was in the same room.

During his three years of office as resident he was able to render not a few valuable services to the Company; but it is more important to observe that his name nowhere occurs in the official lists of those who derived pecuniary profit from the necessities and weakness of the native court.

It is important to observe that the risk is in no way obviated by the increasing slack paid out, except in so far as the amount of sliding which the strength of the cable is able to produce at the points of contact with the ground may be thereby increased.

A law was passed by the Hungarian diet regularizing the libdication of Ferdinand; at the beginning of June Francis Joseph signed the inaugural diploma and took the oath in Magyar to observe the constitution; on the 8th he was solemnly crowned king of Hungary.

In optics he was the first, in 1802, to observe the dark lines in the solar spectrum.

This law applies to every body that is set in motion upon the surface of the rotating earth, but usually the duration of the motion of any body due to a single impulse is so brief, and there are so many frictional disturbances, that it is not easy to observe the results of this deflecting force.

Stopped at a feeding station to observe Asian Rosy Finches and Eurasian Tree sparrows.

Work up some saliva and drop a spittle on top of the water and observe.

Ideal for those wanting to observe wildlife at close quarters.

We here observe a great advance in the vocation of the prophet.

If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

With regard to military matters, Napoleon immediately on his entry into Moscow gave General Sabastiani strict orders to observe the movements of the Russian army, sent army corps out along the different roads, and charged Murat to find Kutuzov.

Elisabeth drove home, so Jackson had the opportunity to observe.

The only other occasions on which he was out of the Netherlands were in 1630, when he made a flying visit to England to observe for himself some alleged magnetic phenomena, and in 16 3 4, when he took an excursion to Denmark.

They might not sustain it, but if the parties did not dispute it, they were free to observe it.

It is more important to observe that under Joseph and his ministers or advisers, including the Frenchmen Roederer, Dumas, Miot de Melito and the Corsican Saliceti, great progress was made in abolishing feudal laws and customs, in reforming the judicial procedure and criminal laws on the model of the Code Napoleon, and in attempting the beginnings of elementary education.

We may be helped in assigning him his proper place if we observe that, almost invariably, he accepts certain beliefs which he forbears to press.

On the 12th of April 1769 the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus, under the naval command of James Cook, arrived at Tahiti.

It is interesting to observe that though deduced exclusively from the study of flowering plants, they are in substantial agreement with those now generally adopted by zoologists, and may therefore be presumed to be on the whole natural.

The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals, though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals had foreshadowed.