English

Proper noun

Monitor

1. Any of several publications e.g. the "Christian Science Monitor".
2. (freemasonry) A text of works or instruction which are not secret and may be written e.g. "Indiana Monitor and Freemasons' Guide".

Anagrams

• tromino

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːnitoːɐ̯]

Noun

Monitor m ‎(genitive Monitors, plural Monitoren or Monitore)

1. monitor (display)

English

A carboxyhemoglobin saturation monitor

A CRT computer monitor

A monitor lizard

Alternative forms

• monitour (obsolete)

Noun

monitor ‎(plural monitors)

1. 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.

2. A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
3. (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.

4. (computing) A program for viewing and editing.

   a machine code monitor

5. (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!

6. (nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
7. (archaic) An ironclad.
8. A monitor lizard.
9. (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.

10. (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.
11. A monitor nozzle.

Related terms

Derived terms

See also

• display
• screen
• VDU

Translations

Verb

monitor ‎(third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• oversee, supervise, track

Translations

Anagrams

• tromino

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin monitōrem, accusative of monitor ‎(“warner”).

Noun

monitor m ‎(plural monitors)

1. monitor, someone who watches
2. teacher, educator
3. (computing) monitor, display screen
4. (nautical) monitor (type of warship)

Synonyms

• (educator): educador

Czech

Noun

monitor m

1. monitor (computer display)

Declension

Related terms

• monitorovat

Dutch

Noun

monitor m ‎(plural monitors or monitorren, diminutive monitortje n)

1. screen, display
2. (audio) speaker boxes for monitoring sound, on stage directed at musicians or aimed at a sound engineer in a studio

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin monitor ‎(“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus ‎(“warning”), from verb monere ‎(“to warn, admonish, remind”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmonitor]
• Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

Noun

monitor ‎(plural monitorok)

1. (computing) monitor (a device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer)

Declension

References

1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English monitor.

Noun

monitor m ‎(invariable)

1. monitor (apparatus)

Anagrams

• rimonto, rimontò

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ni.tor/, [ˈmɔ.nɪ.tɔr]

Noun

monitor m ‎(genitive monitōris); third declension

1. counselor, preceptor
2. prompter

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• Russian: монито́р ‎(monitór)

References

• 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

Polish

Noun

monitor m inan

1. (computing) monitor (display device)

Declension

Derived terms

• monitorowy

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin monitōre.

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)

1. monitor (someone who watches over something)
2. monitor lizard (lizard of the genus Varanus)

Synonyms

• (monitor lizard): varano, lagarto-monitor

Etymology 2

From English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)

1. (computing) monitor (computer display)

Synonyms

• (monitor): ecrã, tela

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English monitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǒnitor/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

Noun

mònitor m ‎(Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)

1. monitor (computing, etc.)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

monitor m ‎(plural monitores)

1. monitor (electronic device)

Synonyms

• pantalla

Noun

monitor m ‎(plural monitores, feminine monitora)

1. instructor, monitor
2. coach, trainer

Synonyms

• (trainer): entrenador