Definitions
1.nounSomeone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone."The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep."
2.nounA device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
3.nounA 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."
4.nounA studio monitor or loudspeaker.
5.nounA program for viewing and editing."a machine code monitor"
6.nounA student leader in a class.
7.nounOne of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
8.nounAn ironclad.
9.nounA monitor lizard.
10.nounOne who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
11.nounA tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
12.nounA monitor nozzle.
13.verbTo watch over; to guard.