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Synonyms for monitor

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : mon-i-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɒn ɪ tər

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Définition of monitor

Origin :
  • 1540s, "senior pupil at a school charged with keeping order, etc.," from Latin monitor "one who reminds, admonishes, or checks," also "an overseer, instructor, guide, teacher," agent noun from monere "to admonish, warn, advise," related to memini "I remember, I am mindful of," and to mens "mind," from PIE root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)).
  • The type of lizard so called because it is supposed to give warning of crocodiles (1826). Meaning "squat, slow-moving type of ironclad warship" (1862) so called from name of the first vessel of this design, chosen by the inventor, Swedish-born U.S. engineer John Ericsson (1803-1889), because it was meant to "admonish" the Confederate leaders in the U.S. Civil War. Broadcasting sense of "a device to continuously check on the technical quality of a transmission" (1931) led to special sense of "a TV screen displaying the picture from a particular camera."
  • noun person who watches, oversees
  • verb listen, watch carefully
Example sentences :
  • Samuel, like the rest, had felt the sudden apparition of this monitor.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • Written three days before the foundering of the Monitor off Hatteras, Dec. 31st 1862.
  • Extract from : « Shoulder-Straps » by Henry Morford
  • Being a downeaster, he liked to keep on good terms with that monitor.
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • The Monitor dropped astern, and again we turned and tried to ram her.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • We went; we bore down upon the Monitor, now in deeper water.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • The Monitor was there, an old foe—the cheese box on a shingle.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • She was, indeed, his safeguard and his hourly monitor while she lived.
  • Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland
  • He cooled down considerably and looked meditatively at his monitor.
  • Extract from : « Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes » by Stella M. Francis
  • The Monitor was a Kessingland craft, and belonged to one Hutton.
  • Extract from : « Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" » by James Blyth
  • Of course a monitor could do no wrong, and it was no use objecting on that score.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's » by Talbot Baines Reed

Antonyms for monitor

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