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receive
English
Alternative forms
- receave, receyve (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English receiven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipi?, past participle receptus (“to take back, get back, regain, recover, take to oneself, admit, accept, receive, take in, assume, allow, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capi? (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -f?n), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þi??an), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???si?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
- Hyphenation: re?ceive
Verb
receive (third-person singular simple present receives, present participle receiving, simple past and past participle received)
- To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
- (law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
- To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
- To incur (an injury).
- To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
- (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
- (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
- (tennis, badminton, squash (sport)) To be in a position to hit back a service.
- (American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
- (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- RX (abbreviation)
Related terms
Translations
Noun
receive (plural receives)
- (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.
- 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification (page 71)
- In the sonification of the PDE code, notes are scattered throughout a wide pitch range, and sends and receives are relatively balanced; although in the beginning of the application there are bursts of sends […]
- 1992, Tara M. Madhyastha, A Portable System for Data Sonification (page 71)
Further reading
- receive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- receive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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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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