different between monitor vs guide

English

Alternative forms

• monitour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?n?t?/

Noun

monitor (plural monitors)

1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
   • 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.

4. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
5. (computing) A program for viewing and editing.

6. (Britain, archaic) A student leader in a class.
7. (nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
8. (archaic) An ironclad.
9. A monitor lizard.
10. (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
    • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

      You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.

    • 1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist (page 119)

      There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […]

11. (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.
12. A monitor nozzle.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• display
• screen
• VDU

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
   • 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

Further reading

• monitor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• monitor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• montoir, tromino

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin monit?rem, 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

Derived terms

• monitorar

Further reading

• “monitor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “monitor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “monitor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “monitor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

monitor m

1. monitor (computer display)

Declension

Related terms

• monitorovat

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?.ni?t?r/
• Hyphenation: mo?ni?tor

Noun

monitor m (plural monitors or monitoren, 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
3. (historical) monitor (low-lying ironclad)
4. (historical) monitor (small coastal warship specialised in shore bombardment)

Derived terms

• rammonitor

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?monitor]
• Hyphenation: mo?ni?tor
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

monitor (plural monitorok)

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

Declension

References

Further reading

• monitor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (invariable)

1. monitor (apparatus)

Anagrams

• rimonto, rimontò

Latin

Etymology

From Latin mone? [from Proto-Italic *mone?, from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”)] + -tor. Compare Ancient Greek Ancient Greek ?????? (Mént?r, “Mentor”) and Sanskrit ????? (mant?, “advisor, counselor”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mo.ni.tor/, [?m?n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mo.ni.tor/, [?m??nit??r]

Noun

monitor m (genitive monit?ris); third declension

1. counselor, preceptor
2. prompter, warner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: monitor
• English: monitor
• Portuguese: monitor
• Russian: ???????? (monitór)
• Spanish: monitor

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 monit?re.

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: varano, lagarto-monitor

Etymology 2

From English monitor.

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores)

1. (computing) monitor (computer display)

   Synonyms: ecrã, tela

Romanian

Etymology

From French monitor.

Noun

monitor n (plural monitoare)

1. monitor

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English monitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?nitor/
• Hyphenation: mo?ni?tor

Noun

mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. monitor (computing, etc.)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moni?to?/, [mo.ni?t?o?]

Noun

monitor m (plural monitores)

1. monitor (electronic device)

   Synonym: pantalla

Noun

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

1. instructor, monitor
2. coach, trainer

   Synonym: entrenador

Further reading

• “monitor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English w?tan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.

Noun

guide (plural guides)

1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.

   The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlviii. 14

     He will be our guide, even unto death.

2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
3. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
5. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
   1. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
   2. A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
   3. (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
6. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
7. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).

Verb

guide (third-person singular simple present guides, present participle guiding, simple past and past participle guided)

1. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
2. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
3. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
4. to supervise the education or training of someone.
5. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

Derived terms

• guidee

Translations

References

• guide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “guide”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “guide” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "guide" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• digue, iudge

French

Etymology

From Old French guide, borrowed from Old Occitan guida, from the verb guidar, ultimately of Germanic origin, possibly through Medieval Latin; cf. Frankish *w?tan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?id/
• Homophone: guides
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

guide m (plural guides)

1. guide person
2. guidebook, or set itinerary.

Derived terms

• chien guide d'aveugle
• mener la vie à grandes guides

Related terms

• guider

Descendants

• ? Danish: guide
• ? Romanian: ghid
• ? Russian: ??? (gid)

References

• "guide" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.

Further reading

• “guide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• digue

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Noun

guide f

1. plural of guida

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guider, definite plural guidene)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

guide (imperative guid, present tense guider, passive guides, simple past and past participle guida or guidet, present participle guidende)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide

References

• “guide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “guide_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “guide_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guidar, definite plural guidane)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

guide (present tense guidar, past tense guida, past participle guida, passive infinitive guidast, present participle guidande, imperative guid)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide, guida

References

• “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

guide m or f

1. a guide (person who guides)

Descendants

• French: guide
  • ? Danish: guide
  • ? Romanian: ghid
  • ? Russian: ??? (gid)
• Norman: dgide (Jersey)
• ? Middle English: giden, gide
  • Scots: guide
  • English: guide
    • ? Korean: ??? (gaideu)
    • ? Japanese: ??? (gaido)
    • ? Norwegian: guide
    • ? Swedish: guide

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *g?ody?, from Proto-Indo-European *g??od?-yeh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??uð?e]

Noun

guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

1. verbal noun of guidid
2. prayer
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, published in Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905, Harrison & Sons), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, Epilogue, line 421

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: guí
• Manx: gwee (“curse, imprecation”)
• Scottish Gaelic: guidhe

Mutation

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

guide c

1. guide (person who guides)

   Synonym: vägledare

2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

   Synonym: assistent

Declension