English Explanatory Dictionary

monitor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
  2. A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
  3. A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
  4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
  5. A program for viewing and editing.
  6. The command line interface of an operating system.
  7. A student leader in a class.
  8. 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.
  9. A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
  10. 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.
  11. A monitor nozzle.
  12. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
verb
  1. To watch over; to guard.
name
  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.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-monitor.wav /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/ [ˈmɑ.nɪ.ɾɚ] /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/ [ˈmɑ.nə.ɾɚ] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-monitor.wav /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tɚ/ [ˈmɒn.ɪ.ɾɚ] /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tə/ [ˈmɔn.ɪ.ɾə] /ˈmɒn.ə.tə/ [ˈmɔ̟n.ə.ɾə]

Word forms

monitor monitors monitour monitoring monitored

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.

Synonyms

oversee supervise track

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-tailedmonitor 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
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