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monitor
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)
- 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.
- 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar
- 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.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
- (Britain, archaic) A student leader in a class.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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 […]
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- (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 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)
- (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.
- 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,
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)
- monitor, someone who watches
- teacher, educator
- (computing) monitor, display screen
- (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
- 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)
- 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 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)
- (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)
- 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
- counselor, preceptor
- 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
- (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)
- monitor (someone who watches over something)
- monitor lizard (lizard of the genus Varanus)
- Synonyms: varano, lagarto-monitor
Etymology 2
From English monitor.
Noun
monitor m (plural monitores)
- (computing) monitor (computer display)
- Synonyms: ecrã, tela
Romanian
Etymology
From French monitor.
Noun
monitor n (plural monitoare)
- monitor
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English monitor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?nitor/
- Hyphenation: mo?ni?tor
Noun
mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- monitor (computing, etc.)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin monitor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moni?to?/, [mo.ni?t?o?]
Noun
monitor m (plural monitores)
- monitor (electronic device)
- Synonym: pantalla
Noun
monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)
- instructor, monitor
- coach, trainer
- Synonym: entrenador
Further reading
- “monitor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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