monitor
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
Example
“The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.”
Other meanings
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
“The information flashed up on the monitor.”
A kind of
- display
Kinds of monitor
- computer monitor
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “monitor” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.