Monitor
['mɒnɪtə] or ['mɔnɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles.
(noun.) a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble.
(noun.) electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions.
(noun.) display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor.
(noun.) an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac.
(verb.) keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance; 'we are monitoring the air quality'; 'the police monitor the suspect's moves'.
(verb.) check, track, or observe by means of a receiver.
Editor: Winthrop--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
(n.) An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Adviser, counsellor, mentor.[2]. Overseer (in a school).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Adviser, instructor, mentor, warner
ANT:Misadviser, misinstructor, deceiver, misdirector, back-friend, seducer
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Examples
- In the spring of 1862 the Monitor met the Merrimac in engagement in Hampton Roads, and established the great value of the turret monitor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You have lost your labour--you had better go no farther, urged the monitor. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Monadnock, which is a double-turret coast defence monitor, is shown in Fig. 118. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The civil war in 1861 brought with it a novel and striking form of war vessel known as the Monitor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Helen sighed as her reverie fled, and getting up, obeyed the monitor without reply as without delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My own case of the internal sign is hardly worth mentioning, for rarely, if ever, has such a monitor been given to any other man. Plato. The Republic.
- Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Admiral Porter arrived on the evening of the 18th, having put in at Beaufort to get ammunition for the monitors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Miss Miller again gave the word of command-- Monitors, fetch the supper-trays! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- German submarines were actively engaged in trying to torpedo these monitors and the British monoplane was useful for giving the range to the ship and reporting the accuracy of the shots. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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