Definition of Monitor

1. Noun. Someone who supervises (an examination).

Exact synonyms: Proctor
Specialized synonyms: Invigilator
Generic synonyms: Supervisor
Derivative terms: Proctor, Proctorship

2. Verb. Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance. "The police monitor the suspect's moves"
Exact synonyms: Supervise
Specialized synonyms: Sleuth, Snoop, Spy, Stag
Generic synonyms: Observe
Derivative terms: Monitoring, Supervision, Supervisor

3. Noun. Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided.
Exact synonyms: Admonisher, Reminder
Generic synonyms: Defender, Guardian, Protector, Shielder
Derivative terms: Admonish, Admonish

4. Verb. Check, track, or observe by means of a receiver.
Generic synonyms: Observe

5. Noun. An ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac.
Generic synonyms: Vessel, Watercraft

6. Noun. Display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor.

7. Noun. Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions.
Generic synonyms: Electronic Equipment
Group relationships: Television, Television System
Specialized synonyms: Television Monitor, Tv Monitor

8. Noun. A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble.

9. Noun. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles.

Definition of Monitor

1. n. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

2. n. A monitor nozzle.

Definition of Monitor

1. to keep track of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Monitor

1. 1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. "You need not be a monitor to the king." (Bacon) 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. 3. Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; especially, 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. 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. 5. 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. Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides. Origin: L, fr. Monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monitor

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Monistat
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