monitor

Plural: monitors

Noun

• someone who supervises (an examination)
• someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
• an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
• display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
• electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
• a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
• any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
• Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
• 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.
• A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
• A program for viewing and editing.
• The command line interface of an operating system.
• A student leader in a class.
• 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.
• An ironclad.

Verb

Verb Forms: monitored, monitoring, monitors

• To observe and check the progress or quality of something.
• keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
  • "we are monitoring the air quality"
  • "the police monitor the suspect's moves"
• check, track, or observe by means of a receiver
• To watch over; to guard.

Examples

• a machine code monitor
• He began to MONITOR his opponent’s tile count, hoping to guess their next move in Scrabble.
• The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
• The information flashed up on the monitor.

Synonyms

admonisher, monitor lizard, monitoring device, proctor, reminder, supervise, varan, oversee, track

Related Words

VDU, admonish, admonition, admonitory, display, monition, monument, premonition, screen

Anagrams of monitor