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Definition: Monitor |
MonitorNoun1. Display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen. 2. Someone who supervises (an examination). 3. Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided. 4. An iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac. 5. Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions. 6. A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble. 7. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles. Verb1. Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "monitor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Monitor 1. A cathode-ray tube and associated electronics connected to a computer's video output. A monitor may be either monochrome (black and white) or colour (RGB). Colour monitors may show either digital colour (each of the red, green and blue signals may be either on or off, giving eight possible colours: black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow) or analog colour (red, green and blue signals are continuously variable allowing any combination to be displayed). Digital monitors are sometimes known as TTL because the voltages on the red, green and blue inputs are compatible with TTL logic chips. See also gamut, multisync, visual display unit. 2. A programming language construct which encapsulates variables, access procedures and initialisation code within an abstract data type. The monitor's variable may only be accessed via its access procedures and only one process may be actively accessing the monitor at any one time. The access procedures are critical sections. A monitor may have a queue of processes which are waiting to access it. 3. A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer. 4. To oversee a program during execution. For example, the monitor function in the Unix C library enables profiling of a certain range of code addresses. A histogram is produced showing how often the program counter was found to be at each position and how often each profiled function was called. Unix man page: monitor(3). 5. A control program within the operating system that manages the allocation of system resources to active programs. 6. A program that measures software performance. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Industry | Term applied to very thin glazed tissues which may be slightly waxed or not, wove or laid, used for duplicating work, especially interleaving for use with two-sided carbon paper, using a metal stylus. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | To observe, listen in on, keep track of, or exercise surveillance over by any appropriate means, as, to monitor radio signals; to monitor the flight of a rocket by radar; to monitor a landing approach. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A high-fidelity loudspeaker in the control room of a broadcasting studio, used for checking the quality of the transmission. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A receiver for reproducing transmission without interfering with it, used for checking on the operation of a transmitter with regard to quality. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Monitor So the Romans called the nursery teacher. The Military Monitor was an officer to tell young soldiers of the faults committed against the service. The House Monitor was a slave to call the family of a morning, etc. Monitor. An ironclad with a flat deck, sharp stern, and one or more movable turrets. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | An apparatus which automatically records such physiological signs as respiration, pulse, and blood pressure in an anesthetized patient or one undergoing surgical or other procedures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A high-pressure nozzle, mounted in a swivel on a skid frame, used to direct high-pressure water (hydraulic water) on unconsolidated gravels and sands in alluvial mining to break down, wash, and transport them. Syn:hydraulic monitor b. A self-dumping car, holding from 5 to 8 tons of coal. It is filled by emptying the mine car into it at the foot of the slope or top of the incline. See also:gunboat c. A gas sampler for continuous sampling of the atmosphere in a mine, usually sounding an alarm when the gas threshold is exceeded d. An instrument that measures ambient conditions in an area e. In hydraulicking, a high-pressure nozzle mounted in a swivel on a skidframe. (references) |
Occupations | Monitors telephone conversations or telegraph messages between operators, business office employees, and subscribers to observe employees' demeanor, technical accuracy, and conformity to company policies. Plugs headphones into switchboard, listens to conversations, and records errors. Submits lists of errors to supervisors for remedial action. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A television set with direct audio and video input used for checking on the operation of a transmitter(1); a viewing screen with associated apparatus provided for the purpose of observing the technical quality of the programme content of television pictures(2). Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of test methods:observation of the operation of a system to verify correct functioning by detecting incorrect functioning by measuring variables of the system and comparing the measured values with the specified values. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | Movable or stationary installation for discharging considerable quantities of water. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A computer display, monitor or screen is a computer peripheral device capable of showing still or moving images generated by a computer and processed by a graphics card. Monitors generally conform to one or more display standards.As with television, several different hardware technologies exist for displaying the actual image :
A modern CRT display has considerable flexibility: it can often handle all resolutions from 640 by 480 pixels (640x480) up to 1600 by 1200 pixels (1600x1200) with 32-bit colour and a variety of refresh rates.
- Cathode ray tube (CRT)
- Liquid crystal display (LCD)
- Plasma display
- Projector
Some technical circles prefer the name "display" to the word "monitor" (perceived as ambiguous alongside the other senses of "monitor" meaning "machine-level debugger" or "thread synchronization mechanism"). Computer displays have also been known as visual display units or VDUs.
Early CRT-based VDUs without graphics capabilities gained the label 'glass teletypes', because of the similarity to their electromechanical predecessors.
Monochrome displays can only display one colour either as on or off. Grayscale displays can show only levels of a single colour. In both cases the display usually uses green, orange (amber) or gray (white).
Colour monitors may show either digital colour (each of the red, green and blue signals may be either on or off, giving eight possible colours: black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow) or analog colour (red, green and blue signals are continuously variable allowing the display of any combination). Digital monitors are sometimes known as TTL because the voltages on the red, green and blue inputs are compatible with TTL logic chips.
Most modern computer displays can show thousands or millions of different colours in the RGB colour space by combining red, green, and blue dots in varying intensities.
Some display technologies (especially LCD) have an inherent misregistration of the colour planes, that is, the centers of the red, green, and blue dots do not line up perfectly. In 2001, software designers began to exploit the misregistration to produce sharper images: Microsoft's ClearType™ provides an example.
Moving texts can appear in italics, even when the display resolution is too low to show static italics: a fractional time delay causes an apparent corresponding shift of a fraction of a pixel.
See also: gamut, multisync.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Computer display."
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Monitor may have one of the following meanings:
- A computer display
- A concurrent programming language construct which encapsulates variables, access procedures and initialisation code within an abstract data type. The monitor's variable may only be accessed via its access procedures and only one process may be actively accessing the monitor at any one time. The access procedures are critical sections. A monitor may have a queue of processes which are waiting to access it. Monitors in this sense were invented by C. A. R. Hoare.
- A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.
- To oversee a program during execution. For example, the monitor function in the Unix C library enables profiling of a certain range of code addresses. A histogram is produced showing how often the program counter was found to be at each position and how often each profiled function was called.
- A control program within the operating system that manages the allocation of system resources to active programs.
- A machine code monitor used by programmers to modify computer memory contents and enter and modify assembly language programs.
- A program that measures software performance.
- USS Monitor, the ironclad warship of the American civil war.
- A monitor warship type of ship based on the USS Monitor and built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s.
It reappeared in a different form during the First World War.- A large tropical lizard (family Varanidae); see monitor lizard
The original version of this page was based on monitor at FOLDOC, used with permission.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Monitor."
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The USS Monitor became the prototype of a form of ship built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s and known as a monitor. It was a low freeboard, mastless steam-powered vessel with one or two rotating armoured turrets. The low freeboard meant that these ships were unsuitable for ocean-going duties, but had the advantage that there was less area to cover with armour and the sea washing over the deck in heavy weather would keep the vessel stable.A more seaworthy variation was called the breastwork monitor, and had the turrets and any superstructure mounted on a raised platform. These were not particularly successful as sea-going ships, because of the short range caused by the low efficiency and poor reliability of the steam engines of the day. The first of these ships was the HMVS Cerberus, built in 1868 to 1870 and which still exists (in rather poor condition) near Melbourne, Australia.
Attempts were made to design variations of these ships which were fully rigged to overcome both the technical and the cultural problems of relying upon a steam engine (naval tradition in the larger navies of the time meant that steam power was looked down upon).
These were mostly unsuccessful because the rigging interferred with the turrets' 360 degree arc of fire and because of problems with the ships' stability caused by the combined weight of turrets and masts above the waterline. However, the monitor did eventually evolve into the battleship.
The monitor as a class of warship reappeared in a rather different form during the First World War as a flat bottomed sea-going barge equipped with battleship-sized guns and intended for bombardment of the enemy coast. Several of these ships were still in existence, and a few more were built, to play a part in the Second World War.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Monitor warship type."
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USS Monitor -- Looking like a "Cheesebox on a raft", this United States Civil War ship is most famous for its participation in the first ever naval battle between two ironclad ships when it battled the CSS Virginia near Hampton Roads, Virginia on 9 March 1862. The ship was engineered by John Ericsson. Although the battle itself was inconclusive, the Monitor trapped CSS Virginia in the James River. Neither ship played much of a subsequent part in the war.
larger imageThe ship consisted of a heavy, round iron turret on the deck, which housed two large cannon. The armored deck was barely above the water line. Aside from a smoke stack and a few fittings, the bulk of the ship was below the water line to prevent damage from cannon fire (torpedoes were not a worry for another 50 years). Monitor was launched on 30 January 1862.
Monitor was one of the most innovative naval vessels of all time. It was the first ship made almost entirely out of iron. Parts were forged in nine foundries and brought together to build the ship. The entire process took less than 120 days. Other innovations included the "cheesebox", which was the first rotating turret, it was the first naval vessel fitted with Ericsson's marine screw and it even anticipated some aspects of submarine design by placing all facilities but the turret under water. In contrast, Virginia, erroneously known by its Yankee name Merrimac, was a conventional wooden vessel covered with iron plates and with fixed weapons.
Monitor was lost at sea during a heavy storm, swamped by high waves and sunk on 30 December 1862.
In 1974, the wreck of Monitor was located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The wreck site was designated as the United States' first marine sanctuary. The Monitor Sanctuary is the only one of the thirteen national marine sanctuaries created to protect a cultural (as opposed to a natural) resource.
External Links
- Monitor in the news: Its 'revolutionary' gun turret has been raised from the ocean floor.
- Online exhibition of the Monitor
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MONITOR | English | Community programme in the field of strategic analysis,forecasting and evaluation in matters of research and technology(1988-92) | General, Engineering & Technology |
| MOB | English | (basic)monitor operating | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MonitorSynonyms: admonisher (n), monitor lizard (n), monitoring device (n), proctor (n), reminder (n), varan (n), ride herd on (v), supervise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Advice | Adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator; teacher. |
Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
Director | Intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy. |
Duty | Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do. |
Oracle | Noun: oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; astrologer, star gazer; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer; interpreter. |
Teacher | Professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher; chalk talker, khoja; pastor; (clergy); schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher. |
Warning | Monitor, guard camera, |
Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Monitor |
| English words defined with "monitor": Admonitor ♦ console ♦ electronic fetal monitor, electronic foetal monitor, electronic scanner ♦ family Varanidae, Federal Reserve Bank, fetal monitor, foetal monitor ♦ Hampton Roads, Home Loan Bank ♦ interface ♦ Monitorial, Monitorship, Monitrix ♦ Prepositor ♦ reserve bank ♦ Sand monitor, Sauvegarde, scanner ♦ television monitor, tv monitor ♦ user interface ♦ Varanidae ♦ Water lizard, Water monitor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "monitor": Active Monitor ♦ CARDIAC MONITOR TECHNICIAN, color-television console monitor, Conversational Monitor System ♦ failed fuel element monitor ♦ green monitor ♦ MONITOR CAR OPERATOR ♦ personnel monitor, PROM monitor ♦ RADIATION MONITOR, ring error monitor ♦ SURVEILLANCE-SYSTEM MONITOR, SVGA monitor ♦ Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "monitor": mentor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Monitor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (monitor), Czech (monitor), German (monitor), Hungarian (display, hydraulic excavator, monitor, river gunboat), Latin (admonishes, monitor, one who reminds, or checks), Portuguese (control receiver, employer, licensed master farmer, monitor, picture monitor, programmed monitor), Serbo-Croatian (monitor), Spanish (display unit, instructor, monitor, prefect), Swedish (monitor, vdu), Turkish (monitor). |
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Screenplays | We knew that we had to monitor our enemies (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi) Space Ghost, I'm picking up four unidentified heat sources on my monitor screen (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) Time is an abstract concept created by carbon-based life-forms to monitor their ongoing decay (The Brak Show; writing credit: Jim Fortier; Andy Merrill) Every time I watch a monitor my circuits sizzle (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman) Okay, as part of a new government program, certain artists have been assigned senators to monitor them (Mr. Show; writing credit: Scott Aukerman; Jerry Collins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Monitor (1965) Der Schatten des Herrn Monitor (1950) Big Monitor Miantonomah Leaving the Navy Yard (1898) The Big Monitor 'Miantonomah' (1898) Monitor 'Terror' (1898) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured is a physician using a remotely controlled endoscope. He is looking through a microscope-like eyepiece to monitor his actions while using small brushes and knives to take a biopsy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | A young, professional, black woman is seated at an office desk next to a computer monitor. See artwork: OCC-11. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has begun a long-term program to monitor seasonal and ... Credit: NASA. |  | Ralph W. Woodworth checking tide gauge in Boston Harbor Tides party of R. W. Woodworth From article in Christian Science Monitor, July 23, 1926. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | F/V MONITOR with a load of skates for lobster bait. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Digital monitor and PP display. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | A walkway created to monitor the marsh platform. This image was taken prior to any planting that was done at the restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A site visit to monitor at the berm on the backside of the marsh platform after construction of the platform but prior to planting. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | USS MONITOR the night it sank off Cape Hatteras. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Scuba divers change out a current meter used to monitor currents in the Bahamas. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Monitor sketch" by Sauro Pasquini Commentary: "Close up view of the keyboard of a monitor." | "My monitor" by [kacsalla] Commentary: "My monitor's moving:)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Alarm for a flatline on a heart rate monitor. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Well, he who could have seen his inward monitor would have been compelled to admit that at this hour it was growing feeble |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Monitor growth and development. (references) | |
Biofeedback can be practiced at home with a portable monitor. (references) | ||
No presently available home monitor meets all these criteria. (references) | ||
Business | Australian hospital administrators monitor U.S. health practice and management trends closely. (references) | |
Sales agent develop close contacts with the procurement agencies, monitor requirements in advance and follow-up on trade leads. (references) | ||
The SETA or the Director-General may set any terms and conditions for funding they deem necessary and they will monitor the funded program. (references) | ||
Children | Djibouti | Primary education is compulsory; however, the Government does not monitor compliance. (references) |
Slovenia | Social workers visited schools regularly to monitor any incidents of mistreatment or abuse of children. (references) | |
Italy | The law established a special police unit to monitor and prosecute Internet sites devoted to promoting pedophilia. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | VDC is authorized by the Government to monitor the sites that subscribers access. (references) |
Mozambique | The Prime Minister's Information Office continues to monitor press content informally. (references) | |
China | For each faith, there is a government-affiliated association to monitor and supervise its activities. (references) | |
Discrimination | Mexico | Human rights groups immediately criticized the statement and lodged a formal complaint with the CNDH. In Jalisco, the state with the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases (estimated at 6,136), activists have created a commission to monitor discriminatory attitudes and promote additional training of medical personnel. (references) |
Economic History | Syria | They also monitor and enforce compliance with the labor law. (references) |
Burma | Local networks are faulty, and the authorities monitor calls. (references) | |
Human Rights | Eritrea | Local groups were not permitted to monitor conditions in prisons. (references) |
Burundi | Security forces are widely believed to monitor telephones regularly. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | However, none of these NGO's monitor human rights conditions in the prisons. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | Under the agreement, the federal-state Council of Australian Governments (COAG) will monitor progress toward these goals. (references) |
Suriname | The meeting resulted in a promise of quarterly meetings to monitor the implementation of the native land rights portion of the 1992 peace accords; however, at year's end neither the quarterly meetings nor the implementation had occurred. (references) | |
Minorities | Netherlands | Various NGO's, some of which are funded by the Government, monitor violations. (references) |
Political Economy | JAPAN | The FMC continues to monitor the situation. (references) |
GERMANY | USTR continues to monitor the German market. (references) | |
Guatemala | MINUGUA continued to monitor peace implementation and human rights issues. (references) | |
Political Rights | Swaziland | Candidates or their representatives also were allowed to monitor the elections. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Neither domestic nor international observers were allowed to monitor the compilation of the national vote totals. (references) | |
Gabon | The referendum was carried out under arrangements that assured that all political parties could monitor voting and vote counting. (references) | |
Trade | Indonesia | The U.S. government continues to monitor the situation. (references) |
Thailand | The IMF continues to monitor Thai macro-economic performance. (references) | |
Poland | It is best to have a contact person at your bank to monitor the transaction. (references) | |
Travel | Turkey | The Turkish Jandarma (Gendarmerie) and police forces monitor checkpoints on roads throughout the southeastern region. (references) |
Ecuador | The Quito City Government and the Ecuadorian Geophysical Institute continue to monitor these volcanoes and issue regular reports on their activity. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | In the event of a terrorist attack, Americans should monitor local radio and television, seek cover away from windows and return to their homes or hotels when it is safe to do so. In May 2000, the Sri Lankan Government activated provisions of the Public Security Ordinance, giving certain government authorities sweeping powers to deal with threats to national security. (references) | |
Women | South Africa | A number of governmental and nongovernmental organizations monitor and promote women's human rights. (references) |
Pakistan | According to one human rights monitor, 80 percent of adultery related Hudood cases are filed without supporting evidence. (references) | |
Guatemala | The Forum also continued to sponsor programs to encourage political participation and to monitor, evaluate and advise on the implementation of those elements of the Peace Accords that focus on women's issues. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Kingdom | Workers' representatives actively monitor enforcement of the act. (references) |
Indonesia | Domestic NGO's lead the efforts to monitor and prevent trafficking. (references) | |
Canada | Federal and provincial labor departments monitor and enforce these standards. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The National Security Agency's sole job is to monitor the traffic that goes on between those thought to be enemies of America. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Our adversaries are encouraged to attempt new adventures while our own ability to monitor events and to influence events short of military action is undermined. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Changing and unpredictable economic circumstances require that we continue to monitor the financial stability of the social security system. |
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| "Monitor" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 55.89% of the time. "Monitor" is used about 1,943 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 55.89% | 1,086 | 6,941 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.48% | 689 | 9,633 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.59% | 167 | 24,143 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,943 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Sierra Monitor Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "monitor": active Monitor ♦ african monitor ♦ blood pressure monitor ♦ cardiac monitor ♦ conversational Monitor System ♦ electronic fetal monitor ♦ electronic foetal monitor ♦ failed fuel element monitor ♦ fetal monitor ♦ foetal monitor ♦ green monitor ♦ heart monitor ♦ Maestricht monitor ♦ monitor arenarius ♦ monitor lizard ♦ monitor lizards ♦ monitor mode ♦ monitor nozzle ♦ monitor production ♦ monitor program ♦ monitor receiver ♦ monitor top ♦ patient monitor ♦ picture monitor ♦ programmable read only memory monitor ♦ programmed monitor ♦ prom monitor ♦ reverse monitor ♦ ring error monitor ♦ sand monitor ♦ space environmental monitor ♦ svga monitor ♦ television monitor ♦ temperature monitor ♦ tv monitor ♦ video monitor ♦ virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System ♦ water monitor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "monitor": monitor-evaluator, monitor-signal, monitor-specific. | |
Ending with "monitor": multi-monitor, self-monitor, tape-monitor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "monitor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | monitor, mat rrezatim, vëzhgues (observant, spotter, watcher), vëzhgoj (observe, oversee, scrutinize, watch), përgjegjës grupi, kujdestar klase (prefect), këshilltar (adviser, councillor, counsellor, counselor, mentor), jam kujdestar. (various references) | |
Arabic | جهاز لمراقبة الصورة التلفزيونية, راقب تحركات شخص, أصغى (attend, hark, hear, hearken, listen, listen to smb., pay attention, prick up one's ears, strain), إستماع (listening), الورل حيوان من الزحافات, المرشد (adviser, conductor, instructor, leader, pole star), راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look after, look on, mind, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, tend, watch), المنذر, مرقاب, جهاز لمعرفة نبض القلب, ضبط (accuracy, adjust, check, control, dam, detect, exactitude, frame, govern, inspect, measure, police, preciseness, precision, punctuality, regularize, regulate, regulation, rightness, school, set, setting, square, strictness, test, tune, tuning), طالب يراقب الفصل, سفينة حربية (battleship, cruiser, warship), تابع حالة مريض, تصنت (listen in, tap), المحذر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съветвам (admonish, advise, exhort, recommend, warn), съветник (adviser, advisor, aide, councillor, counsellor, doctor, guide), управляващо устройство, следя чужди предавания, регистратор (actuary, recorder, registrant, registrar), контролен апарат, контролирам (command, control, police, preside, regulate, superintend), голям тропически гущер, наставник (mentor, preceptor), наставлявам (tutor), наглеждам (look after, superintend, supervise, watch over), монитор (display), защитно устройство (shield), провеждам контролни приемания, дозиметър. (various references) | |
Chinese | 顯示器 , 監測 , 显示器. (various references) | |
Czech | monitorovat, monitor, varan (varan), prefekt (prefect), odposlouchávat (tap), obsluha monitoru, kontrolovat (audit, check, control, examine, handle, inspect, oversee, police, rein, screen), dohlížet na (look, look after). (various references) | |
Danish | monitorprogram, monitor (control receiver, picture monitor), vandkanon, styreprogram (executive function, executive program, executive routine, supervisor, supervisory program, supervisory programme, supervisory routine), patientmonitor (patient monitor), kontrolhoejttaler (control loudspeaker, monitor loud-speaker), kontrolapparatur, kontrol (check, checking, checkout, control, inspection, review, verification), billedmonitor (control receiver, picture monitor), billedkontrolmodtager (control receiver, picture monitor). (various references) | |
Dutch | afluisteren (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, tap). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaŝaŭskulti (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, tap). (various references) | |
Farsi | مبصر, گوشیار, انگیزنده , اگاهی دهنده (Informant), به علاءم رمزی مخابراتی گوش دادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | monitori, vesitykki, valvontaohjelma (executive program, executive routine, programmed monitor, supervisor, supervisory program, supervisory programme, supervisory routine), valvonta (charge, control, custody, superintendence, supervision), tarkkain, tarkkailu (observation, supervision, watch), seurantalaite, järjestäjä (arranger, organizer). (various references) | |
French | moniteur (patient monitor, picture monitor). (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfharkje (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, tap). (various references) | |
German | bildschirm (display, screen, telescreen), überwachen (audit, check, check up on, guard, keep, keep a watch on, look after, observe, oversee, patrol, police, supervise, to observe, to oversee, verify, watch, watch over), monitor (control receiver, n., picture monitor, ring error monitor), Überwachungsgerät (voter). (various references) | |
Greek | κανονάκι, συσκευή ελέγχου (control box, control panel, control unit), σταθερός πυροσβεστικός αυλός, μόνιτορ (control receiver, picture monitor), μηνυτήσ (indicter, prosecutor), με οθόνη ελέγχου (control receiver, picture monitor), πρωτόσχολοσ, προειδοποιητήσ, παρακολουθώ (attend, exhaust, follow, keep tabs on, observe, tag, tail after, watch), επιμελητήσ τάξησ, εποπτεύον πρόγραμμα (supervisory program), ελεγκτήσ εκπομπών, οθόνη (display, screen, sheet), δέκτης ελέγχου (control receiver, picture monitor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משגיח (caretaker, curator, foreman, inspector, overseer, superintendent, supervisor, tender, tutelary), משגוח, להשגיח (care, look after, look out, notice, oversee, regard, supervise, tend, watch), להקשיב (attend, hark, hear, listen, pay attention), להאזין (hear, hearken, heed, listen), שריון עבה, קשב, אנית שריון (armoured cruiser, ironclad). (various references) | |
Hungarian | folyami hadihajó, monitor (display, hydraulic excavator, river gunboat), kotróberendezés, felügyelő (controller, custodian, keeper, minder, overseer, provost, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, tender, warden), felügyelő diák, felsőosztályos felügyelő diák, figyelő (lookout, lookout man, observer, observing), figyelőegység, forgatható fecskendő, jelzőműszer (indicator), ellenőrzőműszer, külföldi híranyag lehallgatója, vezérprogram, monitor-programrendszer, monitorrendszer, nagynyomású fecskendő, sugárzásdetektor, vészjelző, vízágyú, vízsugárfejtő berendezés, képellenőrző készülék. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengamat-amat (inspect, watch closely), memantau, penerima (acceptor, donee, receiver, recipient), layar (dawn, sail, screen). (various references) | |
Italian | origliare (bug, eavesdrop, listen in, overhear, tap), monitore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 級長 (head of class), ミドル級 (10^-3, aerogramme, communications within a small range, middleweight class, Mila Sohon, militarism, militarist, military look, milli-, millibar, milligram, millimeter, million, million seller, millionaire, millisecond, mimic, mi-mollet, mimosa, mineral, mineral water, Minerva, minestrone, mini, mini component, mini computer, mini floppy disk, mini size, mini theater, miniature, miniature car, minibuffer, minicar, minicomputer, mini-computer, minicycle, mini-disk, minifacsimile, minim, minimalist program, minimum, minimum access, minion, minipill, mini-skirt, ministate, Minnesota, Minolta, minute steak, miracle, mirage, mirror, mirror ball, mirror site, Muenchen, Muller, Munich, museum, music, music tape, music therapy, musical, musical comedy, musical play, musical show, musician, mutant, mute, Myanmar), モナド論 (mon ami, mon amie, monadology, monitor television, monitoring, monitoring post, mono, monument). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ミニター , モニター , モニタ , きゅうちょう (cornered bird, head of class). (various references) | |
Korean | 감시자 (invigilator, Surveillant, Surveillants). (various references) | |
Manx | raaueyder (warner, warning device; alarmist), fer raauee (admonisher, warner), eaishtaghey rish, cur raaue jeh, ard-ynseydagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onitormay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | monitor de imagem (br.), monitor (control receiver, employer, licensed master farmer, picture monitor, programmed monitor), observar (attend, behold, consider, deem, keep, look, look at, mind, note, notice, obey, observe, perceive, premise, regard, remark, represent, scout, see, sight, spy, take notice, twig, view, watch), chefe de turma (prefect), canhão monitor, aparelho de controlo, admoestador (monitory), écran de controlo de imagem (control receiver, picture monitor), écran de controlo (control receiver, picture monitor). (various references) | |
Romanian | sfãtuitor (adviser, counsel, counsellor, friend). (various references) | |
Russian | староста класса, контролировать (administrate, be in control, control, exercise control, have control over, hold control over, keep control over, superintend), гидромонитор, водобой (apron), вести радиоперехват, варан (varan), наставник (homeroom teacher, mentor, preceptor, schoolmaster), наставлять (edify), монитор, дисплей (display, vdu). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | monitor, redar, prisluškivati (eavesdrop, listen in, tap), nadgledati (oversee, supervise), kontrolor (checker, controller, inspector), kontrolni uređaj, kontrolisati (checkpoint, control, take control, watch). (various references) | |
Spanish | monitor (display unit, instructor, prefect). (various references) | |
Swedish | övervaka (control, oversee, superintend). (various references) | |
Turkish | monitor, varan (varan), izlemek (chase, come on, dog, eye, follow, follow in smb.'s wake, follow up, give chase, go by, hound, keep tabs on, monitorize, observe, pursue, shadow, supervene, tail, trace, track, trail, watch), izleme tertibatı, gözlemek (long, Miss, observe, sight, spy, spy out, watch), gözleme (observation, observing, waffle, watch, watching), gözlemci öğrenci, etobur kertenkele (varan), ekran (display, display unit, screen, telescreen, video). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | староста (captain), радник (adviser, advisor, councillor, counsellor, counselor), контролювати (check, command, control, police, rule, superintend, supervise), ведучий радіоперечі, напучувати (admonish, edify, exhort, rant, remonstrate), монітор (giant), звукооператор (recordist, soundman). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trưởng lớp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | makim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | monitor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "monitor": monitored, monitorial, monitories, monitoring, monitors, monitorship, monitorships, monitory. (additional references) | |
Words containing "monitor": admonitorily, admonitory, premonitorily, premonitory, unmonitored. (additional references) | |
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"Monitor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hontoir, Konitron, Macivor, menior, menitor, Miniato, minior, minitor, moidore, molitor, Monbiot, moneta, monetae, monetgo, moneywort, monikor, Monistrol, monitar, monitel, moniter, moniteur, monitore, monitr, moniyor, Monniot, monnitor, monstor, Montero, Montfoort, monto, Moriatou, morior, moritura, morituri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "monitor" (pronounced mÄ"nuter) |
| 4 | -n u t er | janitor, progenitor, Sen, senator. |
| 3 | -u t er | editor, elater, accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, interpreter, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, odometer, orator, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, predator, proprietor, quieter, rioter, sequitur, solicitor, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, Theater, theatre, thermometer, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: morion, motion. | |
-2 letters: intro, minor, moron, motor, nitro, nomoi. | |
-3 letters: inro, into, iron, mint, mono, moon, moor, moot, morn, mort, noir, nori, norm, omit, onto, riot, room, root, roti, roto, tiro, toom, toon, tori, torn, toro, trim, trio. | |
-4 letters: ion, mir, mon, moo, mor, mot, nim, nit, nom, noo, nor, not, oot, ort, rim. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: monitors, monitory, moronity, motioner, motoring, remotion. | |
+2 letters: dominator, formation, jointworm, microtone, monitored, motioners, motorings, nominator, promoting, promotion, remotions. | |
+3 letters: abominator, admonitory, aeronomist, agronomist, astronomic, comforting, comporting, conformist, conformity, consortium, craniotomy, dominators, ergonomist, formations, goniometer, goniometry, jointworms, metronomic, microtonal, microtones, moderation, monitorial, monitories, monitoring, monocratic, moronities, morulation, motorising, motorizing, nominators, promotions, trombonist. | |
+4 letters: abominators, aeronomists, agronomists, astronomies, axonometric, bromination, combinatory, comminatory, conformists, consortiums, coterminous, deformation, denominator, econometric, embrocation, enamoration, ergonomists, formulation, forthcoming, gastronomic, goniometers, goniometric, hemoprotein, homeporting, importation, information, informatory, melioration, moderations, monitorship, monogastric, monstrosity, moonlighter, morulations, motorbiking, motorcading, mucoprotein, nonaromatic, nonminority, opportunism, ostensorium, outhomering, outhumoring, overemoting, positronium, postforming, premonition, premonitory, promotional, prothrombin, reformation, resmoothing, shortcoming, terminology, theobromine, tonometries, trichomonad, trichomonal, trimetrogon, trombonists, tropomyosin, unmonitored. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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