monitor
part of speech
noun (a monitor, monitors); verb (monitor, monitors, monitored, monitoring)
meaning for a pupil
1) A computer screen. tree →
2) A machine that watches and shows something, like a heart monitor or a baby monitor. tree →
3) (at school) A pupil with a special job: «milk monitor», «book monitor». tree →
4) (verb) To watch or check something carefully over time. tree →
5) (monitor lizard) A large lizard, like the Komodo dragon. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school: class monitors help the teacher; computers have monitors. In science: we monitor plant growth, temperature or weather every day and record results. In everyday life and safety: baby monitors, heart monitors in hospitals; parents monitor screen time. Phrases: «keep monitoring», «screen monitor», «heart rate monitor».
examples
- Please turn off the monitor before you leave. tree →
- I'm the plant monitor this week, so I water the plants. tree →
- We monitored the temperature every day for a week. tree →
- The nurse checked the heart monitor. tree →
- The baby monitor lets parents hear the baby. tree →
- A monitor lizard can grow longer than a man. tree →
- Our teacher monitors how much time we spend online. tree →
note
Countable noun; verb: monitored, monitoring (no double r). Spelling: «-or», not «-er». Noun from the verb: monitoring.
In the corpora
- "Flatlined" means died or the heart stopped, because the heart monitor shows a flat line; a business can also flatline.
- In a job like class monitor, be fair and don't favour your friends.
- A continuous glucose monitor has a tiny thread under the skin that measures sugar every few minutes and sends it to a phone.
- Hospital machines monitor heart rate, oxygen and breathing and beep when something needs checking, which is often not urgent.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «monitor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.