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Monitor   /mˈɑnətər/   Listen
Monitor

verb
1.
Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance.  Synonym: supervise.  "The police monitor the suspect's moves"
2.
Check, track, or observe by means of a receiver.
noun
1.
Someone who supervises (an examination).  Synonym: proctor.
2.
Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided.  Synonyms: admonisher, reminder.
3.
An ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac.
4.
Display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor.  Synonym: monitoring device.
5.
Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions.
6.
A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble.
7.
Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles.  Synonyms: monitor lizard, varan.



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"Monitor" Quotes from Famous Books



... lands and honours in France; and she was now attached to the service of the Dauphiness, not as her chief lady—that post was held by an old French countess—but still close enough to her to act as her guardian and monitor whenever it was possible to ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge
... nor surrender without my order. I then ordered them to bring out their horses, and we were soon on the road. It was a moment of thrilling interest to us all, as we approached Hagerstown, and lingered to hear the signal-strokes of that monitor in the old church-tower. At the appointed time (we had already entered into the edge of the town), with a wild shout we dashed into the streets, and the Major and his fifty braves fled without firing a shot. We ...
— Three Years in the Federal Cavalry • Willard Glazier
... disorganisation, the immorality, the cruelty would oppress him as they had never oppressed him before. Besides next year he would be a person of some importance—he would probably be Captain of the Football and a Monitor...everything would be terribly hard. Of course there was old Bobby Galleon, who was a very good chap and really fond of Peter, but there was no excitement about that relationship. Bobby was quite ready to play servant to Peter's master, and Peter could never respect any one very much ...
— Fortitude • Hugh Walpole
... warn us that the hody needs restoration; pain, that universal monitor, never ceases to torment us if ...
— The Physiology of Taste • Brillat Savarin
... faded away. Possibly Cardillac noted the effect which his words had upon me and interpreted it in his own way, 'You appear to find pleasure in my plan,' he said. 'And I may as well state to you that I have been commanded to do this by an inward monitor deep down in my heart, very different from that which demands its holocaust of blood like some ravenous beast of prey. I often experience very remarkable feelings; I am powerfully affected by an inward apprehension, by fear of something terrible, ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann


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