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say it: MAH-nuh-tur
monitor is a noun and verb meaning "someone who supervises (an examination)". It carries 9 recorded senses.
someone who supervises (an examination)
someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
check, track, or observe by means of a receiver
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for monitor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.