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monitor English

Meaning monitor meaning

What does monitor mean?
Definitions in simple English

monitor Noun

— A monitor is part of a computer or other similar machine, and it looks like a TV. The engineers stood around the monitor making suggesting about how the drawing could be improved. — A monitor is a person or group whose job is to watch for problems, changes, etc. During the test, a monitor caught me copying off the guy sitting next to me. — A monitor is a speaker that helps musicians hear what they are playing or helps people listen to an area that they are interested in. We put the baby to sleep, closed the door, and turned on the monitor in the kitchen.

monitor Verb

— If you monitor something, you watch or listen to it for problems, changes, etc. The army was sent in to monitor the police. Parents should monitor their children's computer use.

monitor

— verb keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance we are monitoring the air quality the police monitor the suspect's moves — verb check, track, or observe by means of a receiver — noun a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble — noun electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions — noun display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor — noun any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles — noun (= proctor) someone who supervises (an examination) — noun (= admonisher) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

Monitor

— noun an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

Synonyms monitor synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as monitor?

monitor English » English

watch supervise observe control display oversee watcher varan supervisor proctor monitor lizard keep an eye on check admonisher watch over superintend spy on screen reminder overhear guard eavesdrop ward tap surveillance surveil spy overseer observer monitoring device monitoring keep invigilator invigilate inspect computer display bug wiretap watchdog watch-dog watch dog warner wardship visual display unit viewer view verify trace tend telltale

Topics monitor topics

What do people use monitor to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive See

Watch
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Listen
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals Reptile

Lizard

Conjugation monitor conjugation

How do you conjugate monitor?

monitor · verb

Examples monitor examples

How do I use monitor in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Sir Peter Blake was tragically killed by pirates on the Amazon river in 2001 as he was on a mission to monitor environment change.
I forgot the baby monitor.
Tom has to wear an ankle monitor bracelet while he's out on bail.
The picture on your computer monitor is made up of tiny squares.
A display, aka monitor, is an appliance that displays video signal of still images and moving pictures produced by a computer or similar device.
Many companies monitor their employees' internet activity.
I'll monitor your progress from my computer.
Here's an optical illusion: you think you are looking at a cube, while in fact you are looking at your monitor.
Have you calibrated your monitor?

Movie subtitles

Mrs Hicklin, can we catheterise the patient so we can monitor her urine output, and start a fluid chart, please?
We can not leave them alone. Monitor them, Salvador.
The patient monitor.
Monitor or better Henrietta and I will.
You have to monitor the house.
I'm afraid his compliance May be difficult to monitor without supervision by one of our people.
And you wouldn't have learned anything about it if Mr Burdin didn't have the mentality of a hall monitor.
Have Pacific Tech monitor the drop.
I Want You To Monitor This Class For A Minute.
He's on monitor duty this evening.
If you'd like to check my assembly..for the monitor unit of the klystron transmitter..
FARMAN: He was alone, working on the monitor.
Jeanne had stayed in Dijon to wed Henri Tournier, publisher of the Burgundy Monitor.
A bear who owns the Burgundy Monitor.
We're on track to change your vector. I can monitor things from here.
Today I will go to Sydney. Monitor or better Henrietta and I will.
I have to obey the next. You have to monitor the house.
Perhaps we should continue to monitor the Cuba Cabana unobtrusively?
MONITOR: Your progress report I find is unsatisfactory.
I told the Monitor so today.
Now, we must report to the Monitor.
The Monitor's structure.
The Monitor, the supreme head of our government.
You'd defy the Monitor?
I'm afraid his compliance May be diffiicult to monitor without supervision by one of our people.
I have observed. Two days ago that I will monitor!
And while you're here in the house, he could monitor your pregnancy.
Here, on this TV screen, we can monitor any part of the project, also any major network on the globe.
Chrissie, monitor communications.
Request monitor screen be engaged.
And here's a monitor.
And on my monitor screen, I could see Mitchell smiling each time it happened, as if this ship and crew were almost a toy for his amusement.
The other will monitor him on the dispensary screen.
Constructed on asteroids, they monitor the Neutral Zone, established by treaty after the Earth-Romulan Conflict of over a century ago.
Uhura, monitor communications.
Closer to the Brain Monitor.
Watch the Brain Monitor.
I saw them too, on the monitor.

News and current affairs

Subsequently, the EU would monitor Kosovo and prevent any dispute that might turn violent.
If they over-constrain the financial sector, risk may migrate outside the regulatory frontier, where it will be harder to measure and monitor.
With deposit insurance, clients who no longer risk losing their money have no incentive to monitor their bank, while banks, with no one watching, have incentives to invest in excessively risky projects.
This creates a powerful incentive for depositors and investors to monitor their bank's performance.
This pact would monitor current-account imbalances and penalize excessive deficits or surpluses in the external account.
To identify, prevent, and counteract the causes and consequences of work-related stress, we need to monitor job content, working conditions, terms of employment, social relations at work, health, well-being and productivity.
The IMF, for its part, will monitor these plans regularly as part of our responsibility to provide policy analysis and advice.
In fact, one key reason for the creation of the International Monetary Fund was to monitor exchange-rate developments with the explicit aim of preventing beggar-thy-neighbor policies.
In addition and as a complement to re-regulation, we need a comprehensive systemic risk monitor.
There is little that officials can do to monitor or modify the children's workloads on large farms or small family enterprises.
Above all, a system needs to be established to monitor officials' performance in environmental as well as in economic terms.
The organization promised to monitor the behavior of members and thus create a chance for coordinated support of the democratic order.
But, instead of addressing the structural causes of rising corruption, India's anti-graft movement bemoans a supposed weakening of ethical values and demands additional agencies with draconian powers to monitor and punish.
The international community must therefore recognize that it is not enough to promote, organize, or monitor elections in hitherto undemocratic countries.
Any effort that is concrete and implementable needs to monitor the results, and setting clear numerical targets is the best way to do so.
Researchers there argue that in fragile speculative industries (and finance has certainly been in that category in recent years) it is hard for investors to monitor those who manage their money.
Yet, while lone wolves like Breivik are hard to detect, active members of terror organizations are much easier to detect and monitor.
Wen said that political reform, including opportunities for citizens to criticize and monitor the government, is necessary to sustain China's breakneck economic growth.
It is clear by now that economic reform must be coupled with political reform, so that institutional mechanisms of accountability are developed to monitor any excesses and ensure that benefits are made available to all.
Martin Rapaport, chairman of the group, has called for free access to the diamond fields by non-governmental organizations and industry representatives to monitor the human rights situation.
But Albania no longer needs the OSCE's staff to be scattered throughout the country to monitor every aspect of its political life.

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