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monitor   (TTS Sound)

The noun monitor has 7 senses

• proctor, monitor -- (someone who supervises (an examination))


• admonisher, monitor, reminder -- (someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided)


• Monitor -- (an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac)


• monitor, monitoring device -- (display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor)


• monitor -- (electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions)


• monitor -- (a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble)


• monitor, monitor lizard, varan -- (any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles)

The verb monitor has 2 senses

• monitor, supervise -- (keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance; "we are monitoring the air quality"; "the police monitor the suspect's moves")


• monitor -- (check, track, or observe by means of a receiver)