Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Monitor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monitor \Mon"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. monere. See {Monition}, and cf.
{Mentor}.]
1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of
duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or
caution.
You need not be a monitor to the king. --Bacon.
2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the
school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the
absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a
division or class.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus
{Varanus}; esp., the Egyptian species ({V. Niloticus}),
which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of
the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
4. [So called from the name given by Captain Ericson, its
designer, to the first ship of the kind.] An ironclad war
vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more
heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
5. (Mach.) 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 successively the several tools in holds
into proper position for cutting.
{Monitor top}, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of
a car roof, having low windows along its sides.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monitor \Mon"i*tor\, n.
A monitor nozzle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
monitor
n 1: display consisting of a device that takes signals from a
computer and displays them on a CRT screen [syn: {monitoring
device}]
2: someone who supervises (an examination) [syn: {proctor}]
3: someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
[syn: {admonisher}, {reminder}]
4: an iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle
with the Merrimac [syn: {Monitor}]
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 [syn: {monitor
lizard}, {varan}]
v : keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance [syn:
{supervise}, {ride herd on}]
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