monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/
note: lot–cloth split, US
ipa: /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tɚ/
note: lot–cloth split, US
ipa: /ˈmɔn.ə.tɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈmɑ.nɪ.ɾɚ]
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈmɑ.nə.ɾɚ]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tɚ/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈmɒn.ɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈmɔn.ɪ.ɾə]
ipa: /ˈmɒn.ə.tə/
ipa: [ˈmɔ̟n.ə.ɾə]
Forms: form: monitors
form: monitour
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.
Senses: examples: text: The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
text: And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
A monitor, though still;
Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
Beyond the preacher's skill.
ref: 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar:
glosses: Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
glosses: A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
examples: text: The information flashed up on the monitor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
glosses: A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
examples: text: a machine code monitor
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program for viewing and editing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The command line interface of an operating system.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School:
text: But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors!
ref: 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:
text: He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election, Hong Kong ICAC Comics:
glosses: A student leader in a class.
raw_tags: in British
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
glosses: A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
glosses: A monitor nozzle.
examples: text: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.
text: There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […]
ref: 1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119:
glosses: One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
glosses: An ironclad.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Varanus acanthurus
word: ackie monitor
taxonomic: Varanus niloticus
word: African monitor
word: ankle monitor
taxonomic: Varanus panoptes
word: Argus monitor
word: baby monitor
taxonomic: Varanus bengalensis
word: Bengal monitor
word: biomonitor
taxonomic: Varanus tristis
word: black-headed monitor
taxonomic: Varanus tristis
word: black-tailedmonitor monitor
taxonomic: Varanus albigularis microstictus
word: black-throated monitor
taxonomic: Varanus doreanus
word: blue-tailed monitor
taxonomic: Varanus bushi
word: Bush's monitor
taxonomic: Varanus griseus caspius
word: Caspian monitor
taxonomic: Varanus salvadorii
word: crocodile monitor
taxonomic: Varanus sparnus
word: Dampier Peninsula monitor
taxonomic: Varanus griseus
word: desert monitor
taxonomic: Varanus dumerilii
word: Dumeril's monitor
word: dungeon monitor
taxonomic: Varanus tristis orientalis
word: freckled monitor
taxonomic: Varanus flavescens
word: golden monitor
taxonomic: Varanus olivaceus
word: Gray's monitor
taxonomic: Varanus griseus griseus
word: grey monitor
word: hall monitor
word: hallway monitor
word: heart rate monitor
word: Holter monitor
taxonomic: Varanus griseus koneicznyi
word: Indian desert monitor
taxonomic: Varanus bengalensis
word: Indian monitor
word: in-ear monitor
taxonomic: Varanus varius
word: lace monitor
word: milk monitor
word: monitorability
word: monitorable
word: monitorial
word: monitorisation
word: monitorization
word: monitorize
word: monitorless
taxonomic: Varanidae spp.
word: monitor lizard
word: monitorship
word: monitress
taxonomic: Varanus tristis
word: mournful monitor
word: multimonitor
taxonomic: Varanus niloticus
word: Nile monitor
taxonomic: Varanus niloticus
alt: syn. Varanus ornatus; Varanus olivaceus
word: ornate monitor
taxonomic: Varanus salvadorii
word: Papua monitor
taxonomic: Varanus jobiensis
word: peach-throated monitor
taxonomic: Varanus auffenbergi
word: peacock monitor
taxonomic: Varanus bushi
word: Pilbara monitor
taxonomic: Varanus melinus
word: quince monitor
taxonomic: Varanus gouldii
word: racehorse monitor
taxonomic: Varanus acanthurus
word: ridged-tailed monitor
taxonomic: Varanus albigularis
word: rock monitor
taxonomic: Varanus rosenbergi
word: Rosenberg's monitor
taxonomic: Varanus gouldii
word: sand monitor
taxonomic: Varanus exanthematicus
word: savannah monitor
word: self-monitor
taxonomic: Varanus jobiensis
word: Sepik monitor
taxonomic: Varanus brevicauda
word: short-tailed pygmy monitor
word: Solomon Island spiny monitor
taxonomic: Varanus acanthurus
word: spiny-tailed monitor
taxonomic: Varanus ocreatus
word: Storr's monitor
word: telemonitor
taxonomic: Varanus timorensis
word: Timor monitor
taxonomic: Varanus spp.
word: tree monitor
word: virtual machine monitor
taxonomic: Varanus salvator
word: water monitor
taxonomic: Varanus albigularis albigularis
word: white-throated monitor
taxonomic: Varanus flavescens
word: yellow monitor
taxonomic: Varanus panoptes
word: yellow-spotted monitor
Related terms: admonish
admonition
admonitory
monition
monument
premonition
display
screen
VDU