Monitor - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided (syn: reminder)
- an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
- display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
- electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
- a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
- any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles (syn: varan)
verb
the police monitor the suspect's moves
Extra examples
They watched the press conference on a video monitor in a back room.
We put a baby monitor in the nursery.
U.N. weapons monitors and inspectors.
Nurses constantly monitored the patient's heart rate.
We're in a good position to monitor and respond to customer concerns.
Government agents have been monitoring the enemy's radio communications.
Patients who are given the new drug will be asked to monitor their progress.
The government is monitoring the situation closely.
The temperature is carefully monitored.
We need a better system for monitoring what is going on.
He suspected that his phone calls were being monitored.
She was staring at her computer monitor.
We could watch what was happening on the TV monitor.
The noise monitor recorded 98 decibels.
UN monitors will remain in the country to supervise the elections.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: monitor
he/she/it: monitors
present participle: monitoring
past tense: monitored
past participle: monitored
singular: monitor
plural: monitors
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