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Smartwatch vs Watch - What's the difference?

smartwatch | watch |

As nouns the difference between smartwatch and watch

is that smartwatch is wristwatch with functionality beyond timekeeping while watch is a portable or wearable timepiece.

As a verb watch is

(label) to look at, see, or view for a period of time.

smartwatch

English

(Wikipedia)

Noun

(es)
  • wristwatch with functionality beyond timekeeping.
  • mobile device worn on the wrist with a touchscreen display.
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year=1991 , monthday=March 22 , author= Brad Templeton , title=How will the police react to secure communications? , id=1991Mar22.084413.25223@looking.on.ca , group=comp.org.eff.talk citation
    Before too long, secure public key cryptosystems will make routine personal communications 100% secure. You'll use E-mail and digital voice, but since it's easy, you'll use security all the time. Your key will probably be stored in a smartcard or smartwatch' that you carry with you. ... Will they have to do lightning raids on people they suspect to grab their computers while they are still on with the keys in ram? Rip your ' smartwatch off your wrist to get your code?
  • *{{quote-web
    • , date = 1997-08-20 , author =Stewart Taggart , title = Swatch Tests Smart-Watch Uses , site =Wired , url = http://wayback.archive.org/web/20000902235410/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,6220,00.html , accessdate = 2013-10-23 }}
    In Sydney, Australia, test trials are under way of a "smart watch"' that can one day reduce the need for wallets and purses. ... Barnes stressed the trial with CTA is one of a number Swatch is undertaking with different suppliers to better adapt ' smart watches to local conditions and learn their potential.
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year=1997 , monthday=October 29 , author=Joop Kaashoek , title=Re: more on the Newton future... , id=jck-2910971347340001@mg136-191.ricochet.net , group=comp.sys.newton.misc citation
  • *:I certainly hope Newton is not going to die, it is far superior to Windows CE. In fact I hope Apple will license the OS to all the makers of smartphones, smart cars, smart watches , smart ovens, etc.
  • *{{quote-web
    • , date = 2003-06-02 , author =Tony Smith , title = Fossil puts back Palm Wrist PDA launch to 2004 , site =The Register , url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/02/fossil_puts_back_palm_wrist/ , accessdate = 2013-10-23 }}
    Smartwatch buffs eagerly awaiting the arrival later this month of their Palm OS-based Fossil Wrist PDA are going to be disappointed.
  • *{{quote-web
    • , date = 2012-04-13 , author =Bill Ray , title = It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m , site =The Register , url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/13/pebble_kickstarter/ , accessdate = 2013-10-23 }}
    It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m

    See also

    * smart band

    watch

    English

    (wikipedia watch)

    Etymology 1

    As a noun, from (etyl) wacche, from (etyl) . See below for verb form.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A portable or wearable timepiece.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
    More people today carry a watch on their wrists than in their pockets.
  • The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
  • * Milton
    • shepherds keeping watch by night
  • * Addison
    • All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
  • A particular time period when guarding is kept.
    • The second watch of the night began at midnight.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I did stand my watch upon the hill.
  • * Milton
    • Might we but hear / Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock / Count the night watches to his feathery dames.
  • A person or group of people who guard.
    • The watch stopped the travelers at the city gates.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 65
    • Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch ; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
  • The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He upbraids Iago, that he made him / Brave me upon the watch .
  • (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch'', ''port watch .
  • (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
  • The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
  • * 2004 , Charles P. Nemeth, Criminal law
    • A quick watch of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange sends this reality home fast. Amoral, vacuous, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, and chillingly evil describe only parts of the story.
    Derived terms
    * hurricane watch * on one's watch * on the watch * pocket watch * stand watch * stopwatch * tornado watch * wristwatch

    Etymology 2

    As a verb, from (etyl) wacchen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (label) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
  • (label) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
  • (label) To mind, attend, or guard.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”}}
  • (label) To be wary or cautious of.
  • (label) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
  • (label) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
  • (label) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
  • (label) To act as a lookout.
  • To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
  • To be awake.
  • * 1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:
    • So on the morne Sir Trystram, Sir Gareth and Sir Dynadan arose early and went unto Sir Palomydes chambir, and there they founde hym faste aslepe, for he had all nyght wacched [...].
    Usage notes
    * When used transitively to mean look at something, there is an implication that the direct object is something which is capable of changing.
    Antonyms
    * ignore
    Derived terms
    * clock-watcher * watch it * watch like a hawk * watch the pennies * watch this space * watchman * watchtower

    See also

    * wait * wake 1000 English basic words