[W/K] :: 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.
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              You need not be a monitor to the king. --Bacon.
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     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.
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     3. (Zool.) 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.
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     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.
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     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.
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     6. A monitor nozzle.
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     Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of
        a car roof, having low windows along its sides.
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  monitor
       n 1: 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]
       v : keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance [syn:
           supervise, ride herd on]

  179 Moby Thesaurus words for "monitor":
     ARRL, Big Brother, CRT, Cassandra, Dutch uncle, Jeremiah, Polonius,
     TV man, admonisher, adviser, amateur radio operator, announcer,
     annunciator, apprentice teacher, audit, auditor, authority,
     autodidact, autopsy, backseat driver, boatswain, boss, buttinsky,
     cameraman, canvass, cautioner, channel, check, check out,
     check over, check up on, chief, communicant, communicator,
     comptroller, confidant, consultant, control engineer, controller,
     counsel, counselor, custodian, display, educatee, enlightener,
     examine, expert, expert witness, flagman, floor manager, floorman,
     floorwalker, follow, foreman, gaffer, ganger, give an examination,
     go over, gossipmonger, graduate assistant, grapevine, guard,
     guardian, guide, ham, head, headman, informant, information center,
     information medium, informer, inquirer, inspect, inspector,
     instructor, intern, interviewee, keep track of, kibitzer, learner,
     lighthouse keeper, look at, look over, lookout, lookout man,
     meddler, mentor, mixer, mouthpiece, nestor, newsmonger,
     noncommissioned officer, notifier, observe, orienter, overhaul,
     overlook, overman, oversee, overseer, paraprofessional, pass over,
     pass under review, peer at, peruse, pore over, postmortem,
     practice teacher, praepostor, preceptist, prefect, press, proctor,
     prophet of doom, public relations officer, publisher, pupil,
     pupil teacher, radio, radio electrician, radio engineer,
     radio operator, radio technician, radioman, radiotelegrapher,
     radiotrician, record, reporter, review, run over, scan, scholar,
     scrutinize, self-taught person, sentinel, sentry,
     set an examination, signaler, signalman, sirdar, size, size up,
     slave driver, source, spokesman, straw boss, student,
     student assistant, studier, study, subforeman, super, superintend,
     superintendent, supervise, supervisor, survey, surveyor,
     take stock of, take the measure, taskmaster, teacher,
     teaching assistant, teaching fellow, teaching intern, television,
     television technician, teller, tipster, tout, trace, track,
     trainee, vet, visitor, warner, watch, watchdog, witness
  
  

  monitor
       
          1. A cathode-ray tube and associated electronics connected
          to a computer's video output.  A monitor may be either
          monochrome (black and white) or colour ({RGB).  Colour
          monitors may show either digital colour (each of the red,
          green and blue signals may be either on or off, giving eight
          possible colours: black, white, red, green, blue, cyan,
          magenta and yellow) or analog colour (red, green and blue
          signals are continuously variable allowing any combination to
          be displayed).  Digital monitors are sometimes known as TTL
          because the voltages on the red, green and blue inputs are
          compatible with TTL logic chips.
       
          See also gamut, multisync, visual display unit.
       
          2. A programming language construct which encapsulates
          variables, access procedures and initialisation code within an
          abstract data type.  The monitor's variable may only be
          accessed via its access procedures and only one process may be
          actively accessing the monitor at any one time.  The access
          procedures are critical sections.  A monitor may have a
          queue of processes which are waiting to access it.
       
          3. A hardware device that measures electrical events such as
          pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.
       
          4. To oversee a program during execution.  For example, the
          monitor function in the Unix C library enables profiling
          of a certain range of code addresses.  A histogram is produced
          showing how often the program counter was found to be at
          each position and how often each profiled function was called.
       
          Unix man page: monitor(3).
       
          5. A control program within the operating system that
          manages the allocation of system resources to active
          programs.
       
          6. A program that measures software performance.