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Monitor
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- 1 Any of several publications e.g. the "Christian Science Monitor".
- 2 A text of works or instruction which are not secret and may be written e.g. "Indiana Monitor and Freemasons' Guide".
- 3 The USS Monitor, the first ironclad warship of its type.
- 1 Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
"The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep."
- 2 any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles wordnet
- 3 A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- 4 a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble wordnet
- 5 A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
"The information flashed up on the monitor."
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- 6 electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions wordnet
- 7 A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- 8 display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor wordnet
- 9 A program for viewing and editing.
"a machine code monitor"
- 10 someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided wordnet
- 11 The command line interface of an operating system. dated
- 12 someone who supervises (an examination) wordnet
- 13 A student leader in a class. Hong-Kong, Singapore, archaic
"So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order."
- 14 A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
- 15 A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
- 16 A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position.
- 17 A monitor nozzle.
- 18 One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. obsolete
"c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king."
- 19 An ironclad. archaic
- 1 To watch over; to guard. transitive
"Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly."
- 2 keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance wordnet
- 3 check, track, or observe by means of a receiver wordnet
Etymology
From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.
From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.
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