watchband
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2.4
- noun
- /ˈwɑːtʃbænd/
- US
:
correa de reloj
- He knew that the bed sheets and Laurie's bloodstained clothing, watchband, and bracelet had been confiscated.
- a gold watchband
Examples
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She had bought him the blue striped shirt he was wearing, his leather watchband.
Fiction book (1993) -
I decided to replace the old leather watchband on my wristwatch with a new metal one.
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- It's an interesting watchband.
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She'd tried to clean the watchband too.
Fiction book (1992) -
You come out of the water after a wave like this, your back looks like a Twist-O-Flex watchband.
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At the table, she adjusted her watchband and raised her eyebrows at me.
Fiction book (1998) -
My uncle beams and straightens a watchband.
Fiction book (1997) -
Sissie was smiling at the chimes, her arm lifted like a wing, the velvet of the watchband red as blood, when Hilda and I first saw her.
Fiction book (1990) -
He turned his wrist inward and fiddled elaborately with his watchband until he finally unhooked it.
Fiction book (1990) -
He sat back from his glass-topped desk and folded one leg neatly over the other, adjusting his sleeve cuff back over his gold watchband.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
23
2.1
A band that you wear around the wrist to hold a watch or to show style
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1.3
A strap that attaches a watch to the wrist
A band of leather, cloth, or metal worn on the wrist with a watch
A band of metal or leather that attaches a watch to your wrist
How Flexible
- US
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2.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Watchband is made of two parts, watch and band; watch comes from an old word meaning 'to be awake' or 'to look', and band means 'a strip that goes around', like a headband or a rubber band. So a watchband is the strip that goes around your wrist to hold the watch.