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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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipi?.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?nt?s?pt', IPA^(key): /?nt??s?pt/
• (US) enPR: ?nt?rs?pt', IPA^(key): /?nt??s?pt/

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n't?s?pt, IPA^(key): /??nt?s?pt/
• (US) enPR: ?n't?rs?pt, IPA^(key): /??nt?s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Verb

intercept (third-person singular simple present intercepts, present participle intercepting, simple past and past participle intercepted)

1. (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
2. (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game
   1. (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.

Translations

Noun

intercept (plural intercepts)

1. An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
3. An interception of a missile.
4. (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
   • 2012, Alice Kaseberg, Greg Cripe, Peter Wildman, Introductory Algebra: Everyday Explorations, page 278

     Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.

5. (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.

Derived terms

• interceptor

Translations

See also

• (an interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call): bug