monitor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: monitors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: monitour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: monitors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: monitoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: monitored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: monitored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: monitour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
pos: noun
examples: The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
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.
gloss: A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
pos: noun
gloss: A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
pos: noun
examples: The information flashed up on the monitor.
gloss: A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
pos: noun
gloss: A program for viewing and editing.
pos: noun
examples: a machine code monitor
gloss: The command line interface of an operating system.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A student leader in a class.
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
Singapore
archaic
examples: 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.
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!
He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A monitor nozzle.
pos: noun
gloss: One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.
There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […]
gloss: An ironclad.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To watch over; to guard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO₂, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,
A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.
The NOAA monitors global temperatures and records on a monthly and an annual basis, not daily. […] Various parts of the world have been experiencing heatwaves and on Thursday the EU’s climate monitoring service said the world had experienced its hottest June on record last month.
Related words: admonish
admonition
admonitory
monition
monument
premonition
display
screen
VDU
Derived words: ackie monitor
African monitor
ankle monitor
Argus monitor
baby monitor
Bengal monitor
biomonitor
black-headed monitor
black-tailed monitor
black-throated monitor
blue-tailed monitor
Bush's monitor
Caspian monitor
crocodile monitor
Dampier Peninsula monitor
desert monitor
Dumeril's monitor
dungeon monitor
freckled monitor
golden monitor
Gray's monitor
grey monitor
hall monitor
hallway monitor
heart rate monitor
Holter monitor
Indian desert monitor
Indian monitor
in-ear monitor
lace monitor
milk monitor
monitorability
monitorial
monitorisation
monitorization
monitorize
monitorless
monitor lizard
monitorship
monitress
mournful monitor
multimonitor
Nile monitor
ornate monitor
Papua monitor
peach-throated monitor
peacock monitor
Pilbara monitor
quince monitor
racehorse monitor
ridged-tailed monitor
rock monitor
Rosenberg's monitor
sand monitor
savannah monitor
self-monitor
Sepik monitor
short-tailed pygmy monitor
Solomon Island spiny monitor
spiny-tailed monitor
Storr's monitor
telemonitor
Timor monitor
tree monitor
virtual machine monitor
water monitor
white-throated monitor
yellow monitor
yellow-spotted monitor
monitorable
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