'Monitor' definitions:
Definition of 'monitor'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who supervises (an examination) [syn: proctor, monitor]
noun
Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided [syn: admonisher, monitor, reminder]
noun
An ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
noun
Display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor [syn: monitor, monitoring device]
noun
Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
noun
A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
noun
Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles [syn: monitor, monitor lizard, varan]
verb
Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance; "we are monitoring the air quality"; "the police monitor the suspect's moves" [syn: monitor, supervise]
verb
Check, track, or observe by means of a receiver
Definition of 'Monitor'
From: GCIDE
- Monitor \Mon"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.]
- 1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. [1913 Webster]
- You need not be a monitor to the king. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [So called from the name given by Captain Ericson, its designer, to the first ship of the kind.] An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mach.) 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 successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A monitor nozzle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'monitor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- admonisher,
- adviser,
- amateur radio operator,
- announcer,
- annunciator,
- apprentice teacher,
- ARRL,
- audit,
- auditor,
- authority,
- autodidact,
- autopsy,
- backseat driver,
- Big Brother,
- boatswain,
- boss,
- buttinsky,
- cameraman,
- canvass,
- Cassandra,
- cautioner,
- channel,
- check,
- check out,
- check over,
- check up on,
- chief,
- communicant,
- communicator,
- comptroller,
- confidant,
- consultant,
- control engineer,
- controller,
- counsel,
- counselor,
- CRT,
- custodian,
- display,
- Dutch uncle,
- educatee,
- enlightener,
- examine,
- expert,
- expert witness,
- flagman,
- floor manager,
- floorman,
- floorwalker,
- follow,
- foreman,
- gaffer,
- ganger,
- give an examination,
- go over,
- gossipmonger,
- graduate assistant,
- grapevine,
- guard,
- guardian,
- guide,
- ham,
- head,
- headman,
- informant,
- information center,
- information medium,
- informer,
- inquirer,
- inspect,
- inspector,
- instructor,
- intern,
- interviewee,
- Jeremiah,
- keep track of,
- kibitzer,
- learner,
- lighthouse keeper,
- look at,
- look over,
- lookout,
- lookout man,
- meddler,
- mentor,
- mixer,
- mouthpiece,
- nestor,
- newsmonger,
- noncommissioned officer,
- notifier,
- observe,
- orienter,
- overhaul,
- overlook,
- overman,
- oversee,
- overseer,
- paraprofessional,
- pass over,
- pass under review,
- peer at,
- peruse,
- Polonius,
- pore over,
- postmortem,
- practice teacher,
- praepostor,
- preceptist,
- prefect,
- press,
- proctor,
- prophet of doom,
- public relations officer,
- publisher,
- pupil,
- pupil teacher,
- radio,
- radio electrician,
- radio engineer,
- radio operator,
- radio technician,
- radioman,
- radiotelegrapher,
- radiotrician,
- record,
- reporter,
- review,
- run over,
- scan,
- scholar,
- scrutinize,
- self-taught person,
- sentinel,
- sentry,
- set an examination,
- signaler,
- signalman,
- sirdar,
- size,
- size up,
- slave driver,
- source,
- spokesman,
- straw boss,
- student,
- student assistant,
- studier,
- study,
- subforeman,
- super,
- superintend,
- superintendent,
- supervise,
- supervisor,
- survey,
- surveyor,
- take stock of,
- take the measure,
- taskmaster,
- teacher,
- teaching assistant,
- teaching fellow,
- teaching intern,
- television,
- television technician,
- teller,
- tipster,
- tout,
- trace,
- track,
- trainee,
- TV man,
- vet,
- visitor,
- warner,
- watch,
- watchdog,
- witness
Words containing 'Monitor'
- monitoring,
- Maestricht monitor,
- Monitor arenarius,
- Monitor nozzle,
- Monitor top,
- Sand monitor,
- Water monitor,
- african monitor,
- cardiac monitor,
- computer monitor,
- fetal monitor,
- foetal monitor,
- heart monitor,
- monitor lizard,
- monitor program,
- monitoring device,
- monitoring program,
- television monitor,
- tv monitor,
- electronic fetal monitor,
- electronic foetal monitor,
- two-banded monitor