monitor
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- monitour (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tɚ/, /ˈmɔn.ə.tɚ/, /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/, /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tə/, /ˈmɔn.ɪ.ɾə/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]monitor (plural monitors)
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
- 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.
- 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.
- The information flashed up on the monitor.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
- a machine code monitor
- (computing, obsolete) The command line interface of an operating system.
- (Hong Kong, Singapore, archaic in British) A student leader in a class.
- 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School:
- So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
- 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:
- But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors!
- (Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election[1], Hong Kong ICAC Comics:
- He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on.
- (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. [from 1862]
- A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae.
- A bus monitor.
- (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 several tools successively into position.
- A monitor nozzle.
- (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
- (archaic) An ironclad.
Derived terms
[edit]- ackie monitor (Varanus acanthurus)
- African monitor (Varanus niloticus)
- ankle monitor
- Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes)
- baby monitor
- Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis)
- black-headed monitor (Varanus tristis)
- black-tailedmonitor monitor (Varanus tristis)
- black-throated monitor (Varanus albigularis microstictus)
- blue-tailed monitor (Varanus doreanus)
- Bush's monitor (Varanus bushi)
- Caspian monitor (Varanus griseus caspius)
- crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii)
- Dampier Peninsula monitor (Varanus sparnus)
- desert monitor (Varanus griseus)
- Dumeril's monitor (Varanus dumerilii)
- dungeon monitor
- freckled monitor (Varanus tristis orientalis)
- golden monitor (Varanus flavescens)
- Gray's monitor (Varanus olivaceus)
- grey monitor (Varanus griseus griseus)
- hall monitor, hallway monitor
- heart rate monitor
- Holter monitor
- Indian desert monitor (Varanus griseus koneicznyi)
- Indian monitor (Varanus bengalensis)
- in-ear monitor
- lace monitor (Varanus varius)
- milk monitor
- monitor lizard (Varanidae spp.)
- monitorship
- mournful monitor (Varanus tristis)
- Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus)
- ornate monitor (Varanus stellatus, Varanus niloticus, syn. Varanus ornatus; Varanus olivaceus)
- Papua monitor (Varanus salvadorii)
- peach-throated monitor (Varanus jobiensis)
- peacock monitor (Varanus auffenbergi)
- Pilbara monitor (Varanus bushi)
- quince monitor (Varanus melinus)
- racehorse monitor (Varanus tristis, Varanus gouldii)
- ridged-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus)
- rock monitor (Varanus albigularis)
- Rosenberg's monitor (Varanus rosenbergi)
- sand monitor (Varanus gouldii)
- savannah monitor (Varanus exanthematicus)
- self-monitor
- Sepik monitor (Varanus jobiensis)
- short-tailed pygmy monitor (Varanus brevicauda)
- Solomon Island spiny monitor
- spiny-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus)
- Storr's monitor (Varanus storri, Varanus ocreatus)
- Timor monitor (Varanus timorensis)
- tree monitor (Varanus spp.)
- virtual machine monitor
- water monitor (Varanus salvator)
- white-throated monitor (Varanus albigularis albigularis)
- yellow monitor (Varanus flavescens)
- yellow-spotted monitor (Varanus panoptes)
Related terms
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]monitor (third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)
- (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
- 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide[2], World Health Organization, page 134:
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
- 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers[3], volumes 23-373, page 239:
- During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “monitor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “monitor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin monitōrem (“warner”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monitor m (plural monitors)
- monitor, someone who watches
- teacher, educator
- Synonym: educador
- (computing) monitor, display screen
- (nautical) monitor (type of warship)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “monitor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “monitor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monitor m inan
- monitor (computer display)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]monitor m (plural monitors)
Further reading
[edit]- “monitor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | monitor | monitorok |
accusative | monitort | monitorokat |
dative | monitornak | monitoroknak |
instrumental | monitorral | monitorokkal |
causal-final | monitorért | monitorokért |
translative | monitorrá | monitorokká |
terminative | monitorig | monitorokig |
essive-formal | monitorként | monitorokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | monitorban | monitorokban |
superessive | monitoron | monitorokon |
adessive | monitornál | monitoroknál |
illative | monitorba | monitorokba |
sublative | monitorra | monitorokra |
allative | monitorhoz | monitorokhoz |
elative | monitorból | monitorokból |
delative | monitorról | monitorokról |
ablative | monitortól | monitoroktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
monitoré | monitoroké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
monitoréi | monitorokéi |
Possessive forms of monitor | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | monitorom | monitoraim, monitorjaim |
2nd person sing. | monitorod | monitoraid, monitorjaid |
3rd person sing. | monitora, monitorja | monitorai, monitorjai |
1st person plural | monitorunk | monitoraink, monitorjaink |
2nd person plural | monitorotok | monitoraitok, monitorjaitok |
3rd person plural | monitoruk, monitorjuk | monitoraik, monitorjaik |
References
[edit]- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- monitor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English monitor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monitor m (invariable)
- monitor (apparatus)
References
[edit]- ^ monitor in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From moneō + -tor. Compare Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”) and Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmo.ni.tor/, [ˈmɔnɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.ni.tor/, [ˈmɔːnit̪or]
Noun
[edit]monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | monitor | monitōrēs |
Genitive | monitōris | monitōrum |
Dative | monitōrī | monitōribus |
Accusative | monitōrem | monitōrēs |
Ablative | monitōre | monitōribus |
Vocative | monitor | monitōrēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: monitor
- English: monitor
- German: Monitor
- Portuguese: monitor
- Russian: монито́р (monitór)
- Spanish: monitor
- Translingual: Monitor
References
[edit]- “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
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English monitor, from Latin monitor.
Noun
[edit]monitor (Jawi spelling مونيتور, plural monitor-monitor, informal 1st possessive monitorku, 2nd possessive monitormu, 3rd possessive monitornya)
- (computing) monitor (computer display)
- 2015 August 24, Nurhayati Abllah, “Monitor lengkung Acer begitu 'trendy' [The Acer curved monitor is so 'trendy']”, in Berita Harian[4]:
- Luaran monitor model juga kelihatan lebih premium dan menarik dengan panel belakang berkilat dengan kemasan aluminium futuristik sebagai penegak.
- The exterior of the monitor model also appears more premium and attractive, featuring a glossy back panel with futuristic aluminum casing as a stand.
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “monitor” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin monitor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monitor m inan (related adjective monitorowy)
- (computer hardware) monitor, screen (output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form)
- Hypernym: urządzenie
- official magazine or news program having the word “monitor” in the title in which resolutions and orders of state authorities are published
- Hypernym: czasopismo
- (military) monitor (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), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat)
- Hypernym: okręt
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | monitor | monitory |
genitive | monitora | monitorów |
dative | monitorowi | monitorom |
accusative | monitor | monitory |
instrumental | monitorem | monitorami |
locative | monitorze | monitorach |
vocative | monitorze | monitory |
Derived terms
[edit]- monitorować impf
- zmonitorować pf
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- monitor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- monitor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- monitor in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor
Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin monitōrem.
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Borrowed from English monitor.
Noun
[edit]monitor m (plural monitores)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]monitor n (plural monitoare)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) monitor | monitorul | (niște) monitoare | monitoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) monitor | monitorului | (unor) monitoare | monitoarelor |
vocative | monitorule | monitoarelor |
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English monitor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mònitor m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)
- monitor (computing, etc.)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | monitor | monitori |
genitive | monitora | monitora |
dative | monitoru | monitorima |
accusative | monitor | monitore |
vocative | monitoru / monitore | monitori |
locative | monitoru | monitorima |
instrumental | monitorom | monitorima |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monitor m (plural monitores)
Noun
[edit]monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)
- instructor, monitor
- coach, trainer
- Synonym: entrenador
Further reading
[edit]- “monitor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (think)
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- en:Medical equipment
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- ca:Computing
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