monitor
Pluralmonitors
Verbmonitors, monitoring, monitored
Pluralmonitors
Formsmonitors, monitoring, monitored
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- 3A person who watches over something or is in charge of it.
Like a babysitter who keeps an eye on everything.
The hall monitor made sure students walked quietly between rooms.
She acts as the monitor for the school playground at lunch.
Similarsupervisor, observer, overseer
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- 5A speaker that lets musicians hear themselves clearly while they perform or record.
Like a mirror, but for sound: it shows you exactly what you played.
The singer asked for more vocals in her monitor.
He set up a monitor so the band could hear the drums.
- 6A large lizard with a long neck and tail, found in warm parts of the world.
Like a dragon from old stories, but real.
The monitor flicked its long tongue as it crossed the path.
A monitor can grow longer than a grown man is tall.
- 7A small warship with heavy guns, built to attack targets on land or along rivers.
Like a floating fort with big guns but a small body.
The monitor fired its huge guns at the enemy fort on the coast.
During the war, a monitor patrolled the wide river.
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- 8A computer program used to look at and change files or data directly.
Like a tool that lets you open something up and fix what's inside.
She used a monitor to check the memory on the old machine.
The monitor let him edit the file byte by byte.
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- 9A large nozzle that shoots a powerful jet of water, used to fight fires or wash away material.
Like a giant water gun strong enough to knock things over.
Firefighters aimed the monitor at the burning roof.
The monitor sprayed a thick jet of water across the yard.
- 10A turret-shaped holder on a lathe that spins to bring different cutting tools into place.
Like a spinning rack that brings each tool to your hand in turn.
The machinist turned the monitor to switch to a sharper tool.
Each tool sat in the monitor, ready to swing into place.
- 11The text screen of a computer where you type commands to control the system.
Like a control panel where you type orders instead of pressing buttons.
He typed the command into the monitor to start the program.
Back then, you controlled everything through the monitor.
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- 12An old type of warship covered in iron armor.
Like a floating tank made of iron.
The monitor steamed into the harbor, its iron sides gleaming.
No wooden ship could damage the armored monitor.
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- 13A student chosen to help keep order in a class.
Like a team captain, but for keeping a class in order.
The monitor handed out books before the lesson started.
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, Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St. Dominic'sHere, monitors means students put in charge of keeping order at school.Note
- 14A person who warns others of their faults or gives them advice and caution.
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Origin
From Latin monitor, meaning "warner," from the verb monere "to warn, remind." The warship sense comes from the USS Monitor.