monitor

[mon·i·tor]

An ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

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

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any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

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a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble

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electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions

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display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen

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an iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

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someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

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someone who supervises (an examination)

Verb
keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance

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

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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.

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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.

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An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.

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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

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.

You need not be a monitor to the king.

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. (Zo'94l.) 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. 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. (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. Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides.

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

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Usage Examples

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

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Other Usage Examples

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.