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monitor(1) (iou)



monitor noun. E16.
[Latin, from monit-: see MONITION, -OR.]
An official letter conveying an admonition. Scot. E-M16.
A school pupil or (esp. US) college student assigned disciplinary or other special duties (formerly in some cases including teaching). M16.
W. S. Maugham I was going to make you a monitor next term.
A person who or thing which admonishes someone or gives advice or a warning as to conduct. E17.
C. Morgan I am happy to-night, for my monitor tells me..to be happy. C. Thubron Once authority had sanctioned violence, no monitor inside him had called a halt.
a. A reminder, a warning. M17.
A. Jolly Such emblematical rites..are useful helps and monitors to our weak minds.
b. A person who monitors something; spec. a person employed to listen to and report on (esp. foreign) radio broadcasts. E20.
c. A television receiver used in a studio to display the picture from a particular camera; a VDU connected directly to the source of a video signal, esp. one from a computer. Also monitor screen etc. M20.
S. Brett He caught sight of something on one of the monitors. It was a shot from a camera..focused nowhere in particular.
d. Any instrument or device for monitoring some process or quantity, as for detecting or measuring radioactivity. M20.
e. A loudspeaker used in a studio for listening to what is being recorded; any large or powerful speaker, esp. one used on stage by a band. Also more fully monitor speaker. M20.
f. A computer program which monitors the running of other programs or the operation of a system. M20.
= BACKBOARD noun 2(a). L18-M19.
More fully monitor lizard. Any of various large tropical Old World lizards constituting the genus Varanus and the family Varanidae (so called from being supposed to warn of the vicinity of crocodiles). E19.
Komodo monitor, Nile monitor, etc.
Hist. [from the name of an ironclad used in the US Civil War.] A warship having a low freeboard and one or more heavy guns, suitable esp. for shore bombardment. M19.
A clerestory in the roof of a railway-carriage, building, etc. Freq. attrib. US. L19.
A jointed nozzle used in hydraulic mining, which may be turned in any direction. L19.
monitorship noun M17.
monitress noun a female monitor M18.
monitrix noun (rare) = monitress E18.