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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
monitor
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer screen/monitor
▪ Make sure your computer screen is at the right height.
closely controlled/guarded/monitored etc
▪ Political activity is closely controlled.
follow/monitor/chart sb’s progress (=keep checking it)
▪ Throughout the night, doctors charted his progress.
monitor a situation (=watch to see how it develops)
▪ The bank is monitoring the situation closely.
monitor pollution (=measure it)
▪ It is possible to monitor pollution from incinerator chimneys.
monitor sb’s performance
▪ The children's performance at school is continually monitored.
routine monitoring/screening/inspection
▪ the routine screening of milk for contamination
test/check/monitor the quality
▪ The equipment is used to monitor the city’s air quality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ The male now carefully monitors the temperature of the mound by prodding his beak into it.
▪ They chat about relationships and activities, while Levine carefully monitors Pieters for any sign of a viral offensive.
▪ Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully.
▪ Patients' diets were carefully monitored also, to ensure that they had a low-calcium diet.
▪ Dosage and timing need to be carefully monitored.
▪ Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance.
▪ All gauges are carefully monitored with regular readings taken to establish the performance of the engine at different settings and temperatures.
▪ Once a suitable agent has been found, progress should be carefully monitored.
closely
▪ Every batch produced is closely monitored by quality and process control departments.
▪ Researcher Gordon Wells monitored closely the talk 20 children from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds engaged in at home and school.
▪ Conditionalities and controls must be effectively designed, applied to all involved, transparent in operation and closely monitored.
▪ Those patients who have the procedure are monitored closely in follow-up research.
▪ Livestock in the area had been closely monitored but little attention had been paid to wild fowl.
▪ Of particular concern to the industry is the company's agreement to more closely monitor gun distribution.
▪ Thyroid function in neuroblastoma patients treated with this compound should be closely monitored.
▪ People with Type 1 diabetes must closely monitor their blood sugar and take daily insulin injections.
constantly
▪ An on-board computer would constantly monitor approaching obstacles.
▪ Even during down times, players must constantly monitor their fuel supply or hunt for more.
▪ An electronic sensor constantly monitors the oil pressure in the arm and provides a break-back with auto-return.
▪ It will be constantly monitored and if conditions change too quickly it will automatically shut down.
▪ Staff are well trained and stores are constantly monitored by environmental health officers.
continuously
▪ But while those hotspots are continuously monitored by diplomats and the media, the Chechen misery prompts nothing but a deafening silence.
▪ The temperature of the animal was monitored continuously by a thermocouple thermometer in the mouth.
▪ We support the Select Committee's recommendation that air quality be continuously monitored around sites and the data made publicly available.
▪ Stack emissions, which are continuously monitored, meet the strictest standards in the world.
▪ Also, the equipment to monitor continuously and precisely pollutants at their source is in many instances not available.
▪ Finally, the air leaving site is continuously monitored to show that there are no significant chemical releases.
▪ Sites needed to be monitored continuously in order to pick up fluctuations.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Once installed FAXgrabber can be configured to monitor fax activity automatically and to convert everything to text as soon as it arrives.
▪ These spy satellites were to be in place within a few years to monitor all Soviet military activities.
▪ Control systems which monitor the organization's activities and report on them, eg production output, sales revenue etc. 2.
▪ The participants are subjected to daily monitoring of activities by counselors, including frequent phone calls or visits.
▪ The agency monitors police activities and investigates allegations of cop misconduct.
agency
▪ An international agency could monitor compliance with international arms regulations, such as those banning the military use of chemicals and bacteria.
▪ The agency monitors police activities and investigates allegations of cop misconduct.
▪ For this reason, the report has recommended the setting up of new agencies to monitor government spending and environmental impact.
▪ In the meantime, the Medicines Control Agency is closely monitoring the situation.
▪ Even where society relies on private agencies to monitor regulations, society will probably want to set the standards itself.
authority
▪ Now authorities are having to monitor landfill sites, a process which is expensive and lengthy.
▪ But he said authorities will monitor mail addressed to offices in the National Press Building.
▪ The major problem with the new reforms and the disappearance of publically accountable health authorities is who monitors the managers?
▪ It's been told to improve the works by the National Rivers Authority which monitors pollution.
change
▪ For instance, they would be able to monitor day-to-day changes in the growth of crops or forests.
▪ The potential application of this technology to monitoring environmental changes that could affect the emergence of infectious diseases will be assessed.
▪ Regular print outs to monitor the situation change in format and name in late August from P11s to P13s.
▪ Provision is made for a follow- up survey to monitor changes during the period of the project.
▪ You can use the rating scale to monitor changes over time in your youngster's ability to cope with provocations.
▪ Its purpose then was to monitor changes in the environment worldwide, and engender popular environmental practices.
▪ Instead emphasis has been placed on monitoring temporal and spatial changes in tree health.
committee
▪ The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections.
▪ An industry-wide committee will monitor the ratings from time to time to determine whether the guidelines are being followed.
▪ The committee monitored referral practice during the study but there was no reinforcement of the guidelines to assure compliance.
computer
▪ An on-board computer would constantly monitor approaching obstacles.
▪ It also serves as an on-board computer to monitor a variety of automotive functions.
▪ The contents of every breath the patient takes are logged in the computer monitoring his progress.
▪ At every warehouse, computers monitor stock levels and re-order from the factory when they fall below a minimum.
▪ But that was all, for the hibernation systems were useless with no computer to monitor them.
development
▪ It monitors new developments in brewing and serving beer.
▪ It monitors new developments in brewing and reports on such matters as ingredients and methods of storing beer.
▪ We will monitor the further developments and pronouncements of the several bodies presently addressing the subjects of corporate governance and accounting standards.
▪ We do hope that these documents will help you in your work of monitoring local developments - we would welcome your comments.
▪ Both the Government and the medical profession are monitoring developments closely.
▪ Arsenal are sure to monitor developments, but can obviously not match Seville's financial clout.
group
▪ The measures were introduced following consultation with the public and disabled groups and will be monitored during an 18 month pilot scheme.
▪ Another appointed group monitoring our water problems.
▪ But he revealed that details of a users and carers group to monitor implementation of community care would be forthcoming next month.
▪ Finally, many work groups will monitor productivity or efficiency measures.
▪ School groups monitor the performance of the shares throughout the academic year and write a report explaining their choices and decisions.
▪ The new understanding build on the 1993 agreement by establishing a five-nation group that will monitor alleged violations.
▪ In all the nine studies of monitoring, the number of cesarean deliveries was doubled in the group that was monitored.
▪ Such workers must be able to communicate orally and in writing, work in groups, and monitor their own performance.
health
▪ Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people.
▪ For such disorders, researchers can monitor the health of couples in whom one member is infected and the other is not.
▪ Public health, and monitoring the health status of populations, are part of the medical culture.
▪ You refer to a map and monitor your health and energy by viewing two bars on the lower portion of the screen.
▪ Sensor technology will allow clothes to monitor health.
▪ Staff are well trained and stores are constantly monitored by environmental health officers.
level
▪ We actively monitor sickness absence levels and record the amount of time that people are unable to come to work.
▪ The ethical standards of Wall Street have to be monitored at all levels.
▪ Overtime should be monitored to prevent excessive levels.
▪ At every warehouse, computers monitor stock levels and re-order from the factory when they fall below a minimum.
▪ Read in studio Scientists monitoring the level of solar radiation have warned people not to sunbathe without protection for more than forty minutes.
▪ Clause 70 of the previous Bill required the undertakers to install monitoring apparatus to monitor water level and quality for infectious diseases.
manager
▪ Industrial production managers also monitor product standards.
▪ Parents were supplied with an electronic time manager that monitored each household member's viewing time.
▪ Facilities managers also may monitor the work of maintenance, grounds, and custodial staffs, and travel between different facilities.
▪ These would be established by managers and engineers and monitored and enforced by inspectors.
▪ Technical control arises from work processes which allow the manager to monitor and intervene in the labour process itself.
▪ And even where an outlet could be found, the companies could seldom afford any kind of manager to monitor sales.
network
▪ The Garden will shortly be installing network monitoring software.
▪ Although it is already technically possible for network administrators to monitor Internet traffic, such tracking has been difficult to do.
▪ Of course it can also be used in a network environment to monitor disc usage of each user.
▪ If the compromised system is on a backbone network, intruders can monitor any transit traffic traversing between nodes on that network.
▪ Verio provides around-the-clock network monitoring and technical support with all promotional packages.
▪ Teams that have substantial capital tied up in computers or telecommunications networks may monitor computer usage or net-work usage.
patient
▪ Compliance was monitored by questioning patients and counting remaining capsules at each outpatient visit.
▪ At present the best way of monitoring these patients is by endoscopy.
▪ It is therefore not practical to monitor patients for long periods with this technique.
▪ Doctors would thus be able to monitor patients carefully without keeping them in hospital.
performance
▪ An independent regulatory body should monitor the performance of all operators.
▪ No longer, he said, will we monitor performance using the work standards.
▪ Non-government organisations monitor treaty performance and encourage participation in treaties to which they themselves can not adhere.
▪ Unless managers see the control process through to its conclusion, they are merely monitoring performance rather than exercising control.
▪ Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately.
▪ Such workers must be able to communicate orally and in writing, work in groups, and monitor their own performance.
▪ Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance.
▪ And they lacked the information technology we have today to monitor the performance of contractors.
process
▪ Every batch produced is closely monitored by quality and process control departments.
▪ Shewhart was among the first to establish a scientific foundation for quality control and techniques for monitoring production process efficiency.
▪ She says there is an urgent need to monitor the process which leads to the decision to videotape.
▪ The computer controlled system, which will also monitor emissions, will process 4.25m tonnes of molten iron a year.
progress
▪ Clinical assessment for learners is a useful aid here in monitoring the progress achieved.
▪ Managers direct and monitor the progress of field or site construction activities, at times through other construction supervisors.
▪ You will however monitor, progress chase, instruct and communicate through paper.
▪ You make progress on the goals, and your supervisor stays involved to monitor and reward your progress.
▪ Again all good schools already monitored their pupils' progress, so how could one object?
▪ Sensors and gauges and meters silently monitor the progress of the dive.
▪ Mr. Rost Under the Electricity Act 1989, the regulator is directed to monitor the progress of combined heat and power.
▪ This meets informally each month to monitor progress and drive the agenda forward.
quality
▪ Every batch produced is closely monitored by quality and process control departments.
▪ But Roberto persevered, experimenting with foods, monitoring water quality, measuring growth, and observing the fish's habits.
▪ It's important to monitor your water quality using test kits on a regular basis.
▪ Each Compact will make its own arrangements for monitoring the quality of jobs offered.
▪ Project approval Once a project has been approved controls should be established to monitor its progress, quality and costs.
▪ Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness.
▪ Our new Health Quality Commission will monitor the quality of care and raise standards.
▪ Their primary job is to measure local health needs and monitor the quality of the service.
situation
▪ Perceptual skills by contrast are developments to do with the greater selectivity of information needed to monitor situations and guide actions.
▪ That state sent an environmental official to Narragansett to monitor the situation.
▪ Regular print outs to monitor the situation change in format and name in late August from P11s to P13s.
▪ U.S. troops could be seen monitoring the situation through binoculars and counting the rebels.
▪ Lord James promised to monitor the situation and to bring legislation forward if it were proved it was needed.
▪ Thus she monitored many clients whose situation was felt to be unstable, and she negotiated widely for other services.
▪ In the meantime, the Medicines Control Agency is closely monitoring the situation.
▪ The regulators monitored the situation but never became involved.
staff
▪ For registry staff to monitor effectively the accuracy and completeness of this operation requires detailed record-keeping and effortless access to data.
▪ The bare-bones staff assigned to monitoring these contracts allows for a mere annual visit to each company.
▪ The devices will allow national park staff to monitor rhino movements 24 hours a day.
▪ The use of overtime and the staff involved should be monitored to ensure compliance with the policy.
▪ It also calls for more funding and civilian staff to aid in monitoring and investigating abuses.
system
▪ Changes in the service system in Nottinghamshire were monitored using a wide variety of sources.
▪ Current systems that monitor infectious diseases domestically and internationally are inadequate to confront the present and future challenges of emerging infections.
▪ This would implant an electronic smart card in cars' engine-management systems, to monitor the quantity of polluting emissions.
▪ This automatic system monitors the position, closure rate and altitude of nearby aircraft, identifying potentially threatening intruders.
▪ Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately.
▪ However, existing systems to monitor these trends domestically and internationally are inadequate.
▪ Male speaker We've got to have a good system of monitoring with a liason committee.
▪ Additionally, the system automatically monitors the calls made by each room and provides a summary report on each guest.
use
▪ However there are no plans at present to set up an independent council to monitor the Government's use of statistics.
▪ The idea is that the insurer can reduce costs by monitoring and managing use of medical services.
▪ The crossing will be manned for two weeks after commissioning to monitor the safe use by drivers.
▪ Under managed care, the insurer paying the bills also monitors and limits the use of medical services.
▪ It is specifically designed to monitor employee use of the Internet.
■ VERB
allow
▪ This actually allows the lift maintenance monitoring organisations to know that the lift is out of action before you do.
▪ The facility would be allowed to monitor itself, subject to spot checks by the county.
▪ Topical steroid requirement - To allow monitoring, topical steroids were prescribed by the investigator.
▪ A third recommendation would allow pilots to monitor fueltank temperatures during flights by putting probes in the center tank.
▪ Technical control arises from work processes which allow the manager to monitor and intervene in the labour process itself.
▪ National plans in the developing world would allow monitoring of governments' priorities or failure.
▪ Sensor technology will allow clothes to monitor health.
▪ In many cases structures have been established which allow monitoring to straddle the subject related fault lines which exist at field level.
continue
▪ All radio broadcasts and church publications continue to be closely monitored by the government.
▪ He will continue to be monitored for the rest of his life.
▪ It will be important to continue to monitor these effects.
▪ Terminate use of tracer calls and continue to monitor the circuits for desired information. 10.
▪ Many of them have done so; many continue to monitor and amend them as situations change.
▪ The delay will not affect the outcome of the vote, as the ballot-counting process continues to be monitored by international observers.
▪ Mr. MacGregor I assure the hon. Gentleman that Customs continues to monitor international flights into the airport.
▪ Game and Fish will continue to monitor Lees Ferry closely.
enable
▪ Such recordings would enable them to monitor the effectiveness of certain maintenance and operational procedures by means of automatic read-out and computerised analysis.
▪ Professional discipline is aided by measures that enable professionals to monitor and correct their own work.
▪ According to founder and president Jim Ready, Xpert enables users to monitor the behaviour of code as its being written.
▪ Measurements of bismuth in serum samples during the trial enabled us to monitor whether significant accumulation occurred.
▪ There would be mechanisms to enable the Board to monitor the quality of service provided.
need
▪ Physical activities need to be monitored as sudden body contact or jarring of the head can bring about further dislocation.
▪ Hoppy says Russell would need some one to monitor him.
▪ What aid is given would need to be carefully monitored.
▪ Once a screening programme has been introduced, continued research is needed to monitor and improve screening performance.
▪ It should now be clear that you need to monitor the patient in order to know what to do.
▪ Of course, you do need to monitor people once they have been given their tasks.
▪ The golden rule is that if you have a chat room or discussion forum, you need to monitor it closely.
▪ We need to be monitoring for more data.
require
▪ Infusion of 50 to 100 mEq per 12 hours requires very close monitoring, usually in an intensive care setting.
▪ It requires fertility monitoring with ultrasound, and blood or urine tests.
▪ This will require you to monitor and record the point at which your client initiates a conditioned response within each scene.
▪ All these require monitoring to see the effects on our client group.
▪ If you do not so trust them, then correspondingly elaborate testing procedures are required to monitor their impact and effectiveness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Army intelligence has been monitoring the enemy's radio broadcasts.
▪ Doctors monitored her progress during the night.
▪ Nurses constantly monitor the patients' condition.
▪ Satellite technology means that enemy airwaves can be monitored more closely than ever before
▪ U.N. peacekeepers will be sent to monitor the ceasefire.
▪ We will of course monitor the campaign to assess its effectiveness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assisting the anaesthetist to monitor the patient during anaesthetic and recovery to prevent complications to breathing and circulation.
▪ The ethical standards of Wall Street have to be monitored at all levels.
▪ The performance is then monitored and maintained in routine use by means of control charts.
▪ There would be mechanisms to enable the Board to monitor the quality of service provided.
▪ This now provides several new windows to monitor details of program execution.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
video
▪ Like nearly everyone else in the courtroom, he watches the images on a video monitor before him.
▪ Newscasts of the chaotic minutes after the attack flash across nine video monitors.
▪ Another set of ads may be running on the video monitor strategically perched above the pump.
■ NOUN
colour
▪ Obviously, the best visualisation will be achieved with a colour monitor but one is not essential.
▪ For a colour monitor, more than one bit is needed to describe each pixel, and there are two approaches to this.
computer
▪ Screensafe comes with two earth conductors one to be attached to the computer monitor, the other to the keyboard.
▪ But you can attach a keyboard or computer monitor to it, along with an optional floppy disk.
▪ The computer monitor verifies and records the healing process to its completion.
▪ The gauges and sonar screen are spread across the bottom third of the computer monitor.
▪ These tasks involve the use of different kinds of devices to control a display on the computer monitor.
▪ Ultimate Challenge Golf is easy to install, but requires a computer monitor capable of rendering 64, 000 colors.
▪ A good candidate for rescue is the computer monitor, if the owner is happy with it.
processing
▪ In Brossa's opinion, the transaction processing monitor market has matured considerably over the last eight years.
▪ Other DCE-compliant technologies shown at the exhibition included: Transarc Corp's Encina transaction processing monitor.
▪ SuperNova 3.1 includes new database interfaces and Unix System Labs' Tuxedo transaction processing monitor.
▪ Some technologies, Wendler believes, are irrelevant because of their relative immaturity, such as repositories and on-line transaction processing monitors.
▪ Its product line, including the Tuxedo transaction processing monitor, will be separate from Novell's.
screen
▪ Everywhere, cursors blinked and winked from monitor screens.
▪ On the small monitor screen his great external weapon was white-hot, seething, dripping molten metal on to the carapace below.
▪ He found her quietly working in her office, surveying the extent of her financial empire on a monitor screen.
▪ The colour seen on a monitor screen is named in the right-most column.
▪ Most of the readings taken were with exposures corresponding to a reasonably representative image as displayed on the monitor screen.
▪ At the centre, dispatchers keep track of taxis on monitor screens, which can display up to five cabs per pole.
television
▪ Their ordeal ended when a bank security guard spotted something suspicious on a television monitor and raised the alarm.
▪ He watched the daily proceedings on a television monitor installed in his hospital room.
▪ All of which meant that Sanchez watched the subsequent drama unfold from a television monitor.
▪ As the videotape played on two large television monitors, Davis stared straight ahead and never looked at the screens.
▪ A glance at the television monitor showed that the Chancellor was on his feet, replying to the brief debate.
▪ The three memory banks represent the red, green and blue components of the image seen on the television monitor.
▪ Following an invisible beam a miniature submarine hones in on the device, until it comes up on Simmo's television monitor.
vga
▪ A port is provided on the back of the machine to drive an external VGA monitor.
▪ The images can be viewed by a monitoring station with a standard personal computer and a VGA monitor.
■ VERB
help
▪ These specialist firms of financial advisers will also undertake to help monitor the fortunes of your Isa.
▪ TSMChange, which helps monitor and implement structural changes should be available by Christmas.
set
▪ A programme of action research was set up to establish and monitor EPAs.
▪ A new economic commission was set up to monitor the success of the austerity measures.
▪ A racial equality steering committee has now been set up to monitor discrimination in Darlington and the county as a whole.
use
▪ On a practical point I noticed that the colours weren't as bright on the low radiation monitors that I used.
▪ Hackers can eavesdrop using software that monitors packets sent over the network.
▪ Advanced remote viewers sometimes work alone, but they usually use a monitor.
▪ We never used the meter monitors as the eyes and ears of the police force.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a monitor that shows the baby's heartbeat
▪ a color monitor
▪ A security man was watching a row of monitors.
▪ milk monitors
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, a canopy of strings induce sympathetic vibrations in resonant aluminum panels suspended between the monitors.
▪ I have a monitor which requires separate inputs for vertical hold, horizontal hold and signal.
▪ Ice monitors have been out drilling and measuring, and already the flat sea ice is strong enough to walk on.
▪ The monitor has four lamps which indicate levels of energy leakage, and an alarm sounds if hazardous levels are found.
▪ The gauges and sonar screen are spread across the bottom third of the computer monitor.
▪ The other is $ 2, 799 without a monitor.
▪ They put monitors on me, and injections in my arms.
▪ You spend hours staring at a monitor, so it should be a good one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monitor

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 ( Varanus 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.

  6. A monitor nozzle.

    Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monitor

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.)).\n

\nThe 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."

monitor

1818, "to guide;" 1924, "to check for quality" (originally especially of radio signals), from monitor (n.). General sense from 1944. Related: Monitored; monitoring.

Wiktionary
monitor

n. 1 Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone. 2 A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something. 3 (context computing English) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer. 4 (context computing English) A program for viewing and editing. 5 (context British English) A student leader in a class. 6 (context nautical English) One of a class of relatively small armored warship designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships. 7 (context archaic English) An ironclad. 8 A monitor lizard. 9 (context obsolete English) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. 10 (context engineering English) 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 the several tools successively into position. vb. (context transitive English) To watch over; to guard.

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WordNet
monitor

  1. n. 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

  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 and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles [syn: monitor lizard, varan]

monitor

v. keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance [syn: supervise, ride herd on]

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Wikipedia
Monitor

Monitor or monitor may refer to:

Monitor (architecture)

A monitor in architecture is a raised structure running along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof. The long sides of monitors usually contain clerestory windows or louvers to light or ventilate the area under the roof. A monitor roof looks like the roof of a traditional sugar house (building for boiling down maple syrup) but the purpose of the sugar house roof is to vent steam. Also, some railroad passenger cars historically had monitor roofs.

Monitor (warship)

A monitor was the class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the First and Second World Wars, and by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. The Brazilian Navy's Parnaiba is the last monitor in service.

The original monitor was designed by John Ericsson in 1861 who named it . They were designed for shallow waters and served as coastal ships. The term "monitor" also encompassed more flexible breastwork monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted ship.

"Monitor" also represents the strongest of riverine warcraft, known as river monitors. In the early 20th century, the term "monitor" was revived for shallow-draft armoured shore bombardment vessels, particularly those of the Royal Navy: the s carried guns firing heavier shells than any other warship ever has, seeing action (albeit briefly) against German targets during World War I. The Lord Clive vessels were scrapped in the 1920s.

Monitor (comics)

The Monitor is a fictional character created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez as one of the main characters of DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series.

The character began appearing, along with his assistant Lyla, in numerous DC Comics titles beginning in 1982, three years before the Crisis began in July 1985; these appearances made it seem that he was some sort of weapons dealer for supervillains. This was all part of the setup Wolfman and the staff of DC Comics planned for the Crisis, showing the Monitor currying favor with villains such as Maxie Zeus, prior to calling on the heroes. The Monitor was depicted in the shadows for all of his appearances in DC's mainstream superhero titles, and his face was first revealed in one of their few remaining non-superhero titles, the war comic G.I. Combat issue #274.

Monitor (synchronization)

In concurrent programming, a monitor is a synchronization construct that allows threads to have both mutual exclusion and the ability to wait (block) for a certain condition to become true. Monitors also have a mechanism for signalling other threads that their condition has been met. A monitor consists of a mutex (lock) object and condition variables. A condition variable is basically a container of threads that are waiting for a certain condition. Monitors provide a mechanism for threads to temporarily give up exclusive access in order to wait for some condition to be met, before regaining exclusive access and resuming their task.

Another definition of monitor is a thread-safe class, object, or module that uses wrapped mutual exclusion in order to safely allow access to a method or variable by more than one thread. The defining characteristic of a monitor is that its methods are executed with mutual exclusion: At each point in time, at most one thread may be executing any of its methods. Using a condition variable(s), it can also provide the ability for threads to wait on a certain condition (thus using the above definition of a "monitor"). For the rest of this article, this sense of "monitor" will be referred to as a "thread-safe object/class/module".

Monitors were invented by Per Brinch Hansen and C. A. R. Hoare, and were first implemented in Brinch Hansen's Concurrent Pascal language.

Monitor (NHS)

From 1 April 2016, Monitor is part of NHS Improvement.

Monitor is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health. It is the sector regulator for health services in England. Its chief executive is Jim Mackey and its Chair is Ed Smith.

The body was established in 2004 under the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003, which made it responsible for authorising, monitoring and regulating NHS foundation trusts.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 gave Monitor additional duties.

In addition to assessing NHS trusts for foundation trust status and ensuring that foundation trusts are well led, in terms of quality and finances, Monitor also has a duty to:

  • set prices for NHS-funded care in partnership with NHS England;
  • enable integrated care;
  • safeguard patient choice and prevent anti-competitive behaviour which is against the interests of patients; and
  • support commissioners to protect essential health care services for patients if a provider gets into financial difficulties.

Monitor's main tool for carrying out these functions is the NHS provider licence, which contains obligations for providers of NHS services.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires everyone who provides an NHS health care service to hold a licence unless they are exempt under regulations made by the Department of Health.

Foundation trusts are licensed from 1 April 2013. All other non-exempt providers will be required to apply for a licence from April 2014.

It was announced in June 2015 that the chief executive posts at Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority were to be merged, although there would not be a complete merger of the organisations. Subsequently it was reported that the two organisations were to be completely merged.

Monitor (Polish newspaper)

The Monitor was one of the first newspapers in Poland, printed from 1765 to 1785, during the Polish Enlightenment. It was founded in March 1765 by Ignacy Krasicki and Franciszek Bohomolec, with active support from King Stanisław August Poniatowski. It came out weekly, later semi-weekly. Its title was a tribute to the "small" Monitor published by Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski.

Inspired by the English Spectator and the spirit of rationalism and religious tolerance, Monitor has contributed to a negative view of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the Wettin dynasty. The Monitor advocated reforms and criticized a degenerate Sarmatian culture and the abuses of " Golden Liberty."

Editors:

  • Franciszek Bohomolec
  • Ignacy Krasicki
  • Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof 1
Monitor (NBC Radio)

Monitor was an American weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955, until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network, it originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday. However, after the first few months, the full weekend broadcast was shortened when the midnight-to-dawn hours were dropped since few NBC stations carried it.

The program offered a magazine-of-the-air mix of news, sports, comedy, variety, music, celebrity interviews and other short segments (along with records, usually of popular middle-of-the-road songs, especially in its later years). Its length and eclectic format were radical departures from the traditional radio programming structure of 30- and 60-minute programs and represented an ambitious attempt to respond to the rise of television as America's major home-entertainment medium.

The show was the brainchild of legendary NBC radio and television network president Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, whose career bridged classic radio and television's infancy and who sought to keep radio alive in a television age. Believing that broadcasting could and should educate as well as entertain, Weaver fashioned a series to do both with some of the best-remembered and best-regarded names in broadcasting, entertainment, journalism, and literature taking part. Monitor and the Sunday-afternoon TV documentary series Wide Wide World were Weaver's last two major contributions to NBC, as he left the network within a year of Monitor's premiere.

Monitor (magazine)

Monitor is a weekly news magazine published in Podgorica, Montenegro.

Started on October 19, 1990 by university professor Miodrag Perović and businessman Stanislav "Ćano" Koprivica, the magazine appeared at a time when the single-party political system in SFR Yugoslavia had been abolished and its constituent republics were preparing for parliamentary elections with multiple parties. At the time, Socialist Republic of Montenegro was ruled by the Yugoslav Communist League's (SKJ) Montenegrin branch (SKCG); more specifically the triumvirate of Momir Bulatović, Milo Đukanović, and Svetozar Marović who were swept into power the previous year during the so-called anti-bureaucratic revolution, an administrative putsch within Montenegrin Communist League initiated by Slobodan Milošević and carried out with the great deal of help from the state security apparatus that he controlled by this time.

Monitor (TV series)

Monitor was a BBC arts programme that was launched on 2 February 1958 and ran until 1965.

Huw Wheldon was the first editor from 1958 to 1965. He was also the principal interviewer and anchor. Wheldon set about moulding a team of talents, including John Schlesinger, Ken Russell, Patrick Garland, David Jones, Humphrey Burton, John Berger, Peter Newington, Melvyn Bragg, Nancy Thomas and Alan Tyrer. Monitor ranged in subject over all the arts.

The hundredth programme, made in 1962, was a film directed by Ken Russell and written by Wheldon, the celebrated Elgar. The Elgar film was innovative because it was the first time that an arts programme showed one long film about an artistic figure instead of short items, and also it was the first time that re-enactments were used. Prior to this, only photos or location shots had been used in programmes. Russell however still met resistance from Wheldon in allowing actors to play the subjects of his films. The Elgar film includes sequences of the young composer riding his bicycle on the Malvern Hills accompanied by Elgar's Introduction & Allegro for Strings. Russell had a particular empathy with Elgar's music because, like the composer, he was a Catholic.

Wheldon's Monitor lasted until he had "interviewed everyone I am interested in interviewing", and he was succeeded by Jonathan Miller for the series' last season.

The theme tune was "Marcia" from Serenade for String Orchestra (Op. 11, 1937) by Dag Wirén. The book Monitor: An Anthology, edited by Huw Wheldon, was published by Macdonald in 1962.

Monitor (U.S. TV series)

Monitor was an NBC newsmagazine series which premiered on April 12, 1983. NBC News created this series as a platform to possibly challenge the success of CBS's 60 Minutes. After being initially broadcast on Saturdays at 10 P.M. Eastern time, the show was moved to Sundays at 7 P.M. Eastern time for its second season, going head-to-head with 60 Minutes, and renamed First Camera.

Production was based in Washington, DC, with offices in the Tenley Circle area immediately east of NBC's Nebraska Avenue studios. Lloyd Dobyns, the show's anchor, appeared on a stark white, modernistic set. In the absence of a theme composed especially for the show, producers opted to use the opening minute of "Piano Concerto No. 1 In D-Flat Major, Op. 10: I Allegro brioso" by Sergei Prokofiev, feeling that it added gravitas to the show—something they hoped would set them apart from ABC's lightweight 20/20.

In test audiences (including one in which future NBC anchor Sarah James was a college student), the show did not test well, but producers refused to change the format. The first episode featured an extended story on Bobby Czyz, a light heavyweight boxer from New Jersey. The show placed last in its time period in national ratings in its debut and was one of the least-watched programs in all of prime time.

Monitor failed to attract viewers. The Prokofiev score brought complaints and was compared to a funeral dirge.

Despite attempts to add anchors to broaden its appeal, new theme music and changing the title to First Camera, the changes failed to draw in viewers, and its new time slot only damaged ratings further; seeing no hope of successfully competing against the powerhouse 60 Minutes, 7 percent of NBC affiliates declined to carry the revamped show, and it was further hurt by frequent pre-emptions due to football runovers. As a result, First Camera was removed from the NBC schedule several months after the makeover, its last episode airing April 1, 1984.

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "monitor".

Having arranged for the delivery of the antitoxin to the Willowbrook, Lee hurried back to the pediatric ICU, where Sunny was being hooked up to a battery of monitors.

Julian was talking, the Major Domo had connected the Archon to the monitors and hooked up an intravenous line.

VIDEO ROOM - SAME TIME As Barnes and Norman watch this scene on the monitors.

VIDEO ROOM - SAME TIME Barnes watches on the monitors as he punches up different views of the habitat.

VIDEO ROM - SAME TIME Barnes watches on the monitors as Norman approaches The Sphere.

COMMUNICATIONS ROOM - CLOSE ON BANK OF COMPUTER SCREENS - LATER The numbers Edmunds saw earlier - on all of the monitors: 00032125252632 032629 301321 04261037 18 3016 06180 8213229033005 1822 04261013 0830162137 1604 083016 21 182204261013 0830162137 1604 083016 21 1822 033013130432 REVERSE ANGLE - TED as he tinkers at the keyboard, Barnes beside him.

Edwards had designed the special instrumentation for the Barracuda and the Bluefin that monitored the thermal variations in the water surrounding the submarine, giving the skipper a constant readout of temperature differentials.

Beyond the sight of the viewport monitor, Aiyana handled the communication panel, while Arnoth sat at the weapons control with Batty on his shoulder.

Cabinet ministers and diplomatic liaisons, senior advisers and planetary rulers, roused from sleep, called away from other duties, torn away from their private business to gather in front of monitors on every planet from Bespin to Byss.

Before installing that lock, it was agreed that Britch would email Vicki and in the course of the conversation, she would let slip her location, in the hopes that K would be still monitoring her email and thus discover where to find her.

A squad of med-robots bustled through the main door of the lab, two of them carrying a stretcher, the others holding feed lines and monitoring equipment hooked up to the patient.

She was early for her Extroverted Hour but generally Moser or Alistair monitored the radio in case of emergency.

He leaned back on his chair, huge fingers interlinked behind his massive head, his gaze fixed on the oversized holograph of his most recent concubine that dominated the far wall of the chamber, just above a security console that allowed him to monitor all the rooms of his palace.

We just discovered that one of the monitors in Horsepower is tuned to a rooftop camera.

To prevent the enemy from detecting a rhythm in the off-on radar monitoring, Manesh had ordered his subordinate to change the time lapse between sweeps and also change the duration of the sweeps.