Sekirov Dictionary

monitor

UK /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/US /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/

verb 1
noun 14
forms 3

verb1

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to keep watching someone or something carefully to make sure that nothing goes wrong
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly. — 1993

noun14

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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.
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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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A student leader in a class.
- 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
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
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.
An ironclad warship with a low freeboard and a rotating turret.
A modern shallow-draft warship for coastal bombardment.
A program for viewing and editing.
(old-fashioned) The command line interface of an operating system.
A monitor nozzle.
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.
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(no longer used) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
- You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king. — 1620

forms

monitored · monitoring · monitors

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