monitor
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
Noun
- 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.
- 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. - 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar:
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- 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.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- A program for viewing and editing.
- a machine code monitor
- The command line interface of an operating system.
- A student leader in a class.
- 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...
- 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! - 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:
- He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on. - (Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election, Hong...
- 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.
- A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
- 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.
- A monitor nozzle.
- One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
- 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 […] - 1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119:
Origin
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.
Forms
Related
admonish admonition admonitory monition monument premonition display screen VDU
Derived
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Verb
- To watch over; to guard.
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly. - 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with...
- During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO₂, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana. - 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences...
- 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...