monitor
See also: Monitor
Contents
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- monitour (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”)
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒnɨtə/
NounEdit
monitor (plural monitors)
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
- 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar
- And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
- A monitor, though still;
- Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
- Beyond the preacher's skill.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- The information flashed up on the monitor.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
- a machine code monitor
- (Britain, archaic) A student leader in a class.
- 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School,
- So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
- 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's, Chapter X,
- 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!
- 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School,
- (nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
- (archaic) An ironclad.
- A monitor lizard.
- (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
- Francis Bacon
- You need not be a monitor to the king.
- Francis Bacon
- (engineering) 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 the several tools successively into position.
- A monitor nozzle.
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
someone who watches over something
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computer display
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student leader
class of armored warship
ironclad — see ironclad
monitor lizard — see monitor lizard
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See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
monitor (third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)
- (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
- 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide, World Health Organization, page 134,
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
- 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers, Volumes 23-373, page 239,
- During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
- 2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,
- A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.
- 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide, World Health Organization, page 134,
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
watch over, guard
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Further readingEdit
- monitor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- monitor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin monitōrem, accusative of monitor (“warner”).
NounEdit
monitor m (plural monitors)
- monitor, someone who watches
- teacher, educator
- (computing) monitor, display screen
- (nautical) monitor (type of warship)
SynonymsEdit
- (educator): educador
CzechEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monitor m (plural monitors or monitorren, diminutive monitortje n)
- screen, display
- (audio) speaker boxes for monitoring sound, on stage directed at musicians or aimed at a sound engineer in a studio
- (historical) monitor (low-lying ironclad)
- (historical) monitor (small coastal warship specialised in shore bombardment)
Derived termsEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monitor (plural monitorok)
- (computing) monitor (a device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer)
DeclensionEdit
| Possessive forms of monitor | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | monitorom | monitoraim monitorjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | monitorod | monitoraid monitorjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | monitora monitorja |
monitorai monitorjai |
| 1st person plural | monitorunk | monitoraink monitorjaink |
| 2nd person plural | monitorotok | monitoraitok monitorjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | monitoruk monitorjuk |
monitoraik monitorjaik |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English monitor.
NounEdit
monitor m (invariable)
- monitor (apparatus)
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension
DeclensionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
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| Nominative | monitor | monitōrēs |
| Genitive | monitōris | monitōrum |
| Dative | monitōrī | monitōribus |
| Accusative | monitōrem | monitōrēs |
| Ablative | monitōre | monitōribus |
| Vocative | monitor | monitōrēs |
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- monitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- monitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
PolishEdit
NounEdit
monitor m inan
DeclensionEdit
declension of monitor
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | monitor | monitory |
| genitive | monitora | monitorów |
| dative | monitorowi | monitorom |
| accusative | monitor | monitory |
| instrumental | monitorem | monitorami |
| locative | monitorze | monitorach |
| vocative | monitorze | monitory |
Derived termsEdit
PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)
- monitor (someone who watches over something)
- monitor lizard (lizard of the genus Varanus)
SynonymsEdit
- (monitor lizard): varano, lagarto-monitor
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)
SynonymsEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)
- monitor (computing, etc.)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of monitor
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | monitor | monitori |
| genitive | monitora | monitora |
| dative | monitoru | monitorima |
| accusative | monitor | monitore |
| vocative | monitoru / monitore | monitori |
| locative | monitoru | monitorima |
| instrumental | monitorom | monitorima |