- a screen that shows information from a computer; a television screen used to show particular kinds of information
- The details of today's flights are displayed on the monitor.
- The pages are designed to be viewed on a computer monitor.
- We included the costs of monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
- The security staff can see all the outside of the building on their CCTV monitors.
- the display quality on LCD monitors has greatly improved.
- The laboratory is replete with banks of video monitors.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- colour/color
- digital
- CCTV
- …
- on a/the monitor
- a piece of equipment used to check or record something
- He was lying there hooked up to a heart monitor.
- Mia kept a two-way baby monitor in the living room so Harry's cries could be heard.
- A nurse checked his monitor for changes in ECG rhythms, pulse and oxygen saturation.
- The heart monitor shows the strength of your pulse.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baby
- foetal/fetal
- heart
- …
- detect something
- display something
- show something
- …
- hooked up to a monitor
- a person whose job is to check that something is done fairly and honestly, especially in a foreign country
- UN monitors declared the referendum fair.
- The EU has agreed to provide monitors for the crossing.
- Monitors or observers help to build trust between the two sides.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- UN
- ceasefire
- election
- …
- a student in a school who performs special duties, such as helping the teacher
- He was a star pupil and the class monitor.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- UN
- ceasefire
- election
- …
- a large tropical lizard (= a type of reptile)
- A large monitor lizard, prehistoric in its beauty, stared at us.
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin, from monit- ‘warned’, from the verb monere. Sense (2) dates from the 1930s.
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