monitor
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Noun
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- {{senseid|en|Q5290}} {{lb|en|computing}} A device similar to a [[television set]] used as to give a graphical display of the output from a [[computer]].
- A [[studio monitor]] or [[loudspeaker]].
- {{lb|en|computing}} A [[program]] for viewing and editing.
- {{lb|en|computing|dated}} The [[command line interface]] of an [[operating system]].
- {{lb|en|Hong Kong|Singapore|archaic|_|in|_|British}} A student leader in a class.
- {{senseid|en|Q137823}} {{lb|en|nautical}} A relatively small [[armored]] [[warship]] with only one or two [[turret]]s (but often carrying unusually large [[gun]]s for a warship of its size), usually designed for [[shore]] [[bombardment]] or [[riverine]] [[warfare]] rather than [[open]]-[[ocean]] [[combat]]. {{defdt|from 1862}}
- A [[monitor lizard]] ({{taxfmt|Varanus|genus}} spp. and extinct relatives in family {{taxfmt|Varanidae|family}}).
- {{lb|en|engineering}} 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 several tools successively into position.
- A [[monitor nozzle]].
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To watch over; to guard.
Proper noun
- Any of several [[publication]]s e.g. the "Christian Science Monitor".
- {{lb|en|freemasonry}} A [[text]] of works or instruction which are not [[secret]] and may be written e.g. "Indiana Monitor and Freemasons' Guide".
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