Monitor Meaning
/ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSomeone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
nounA device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
Sentence Examples
What's the reading on the blood pressure monitor?
A satellite was launched into orbit to monitor melting glaciers.
The details of today's flights are displayed on the monitor.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor will carefully ____ the patient's vital signs throughout the night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hospital staff use advanced computer equipment to constantly ____ the patient's vital signs and various health conditions after surgery.
Word Origin & History
From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
A monitor, though still;
Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
Beyond the preacher's skill."
— 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar:
"So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order."
— 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School:
"But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors!"
— 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:
"He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on."
— (Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election, Hong Kong ICAC Comics:
"There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […]"
— 1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor will carefully ____ the patient's vital signs throughout the night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hospital staff use advanced computer equipment to constantly ____ the patient's vital signs and various health conditions after surgery.