🇬🇧 Stopwatch meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A stopwatch is a small timer that lets you measure exact time. You press a button to start it and another to stop it, and it tells you how many seconds or minutes have passed. People use stopwatches in races, games, and science experiments to see how fast something happens or how long it takes to do something.

I used a stopwatch to see how long my cat could ignore me; it ran out of numbers.

The stopwatch proved it takes longer to tie my shoes than to completely destroy my room.

I used a stopwatch to time how fast my dog comes when I say “treat,” and it almost went into negative numbers.

My stopwatch recorded my fastest time getting ready for school: still late.

I started the stopwatch to time my push-ups, then realized I needed a nap instead of muscles.

At the start of the school race she lifted a small stopwatch and pressed the stopwatch. He sprinted, dust flying. At the line she slammed the stopwatch again and watched the numbers. The stopwatch showed seconds; she cheered. He grinned, breathless, and hugged the stopwatch, then her — a proud, laughing end.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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