monitor meaning
EN
[ˈmɒnɨtə] WMonitor
- Monitor or monitor may refer to:
EN Monitor 
- NounPLmonitorsPREmon-
- Someone 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.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- (computing) 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.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
- a machine code monitor
- (Britain, archaic) A student leader in a class.
- (nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
- (archaic) An ironclad.
- A monitor lizard.
- (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
- (engineering) A 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.
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- VerbSGmonitorsPRmonitoringPT, PPmonitored
- (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
- (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Extents of osteoblast differentiation were monitored by Alizarin red staining (A), and the mRNA levels of the PHD 1–3 and osteomarker marker genes were determined by RT-PCR (B).
- The seasonal pattern of egg laying activity of a French Mediterranean population of the Asian tiger mosquito was monitored weekly for 2 years with ovitraps.
- The mean arterial pressure (MAP) was monitored by connecting the femoral arterial catheter to a pressure transducer and a computerized physiograph (Labview 5; National Instruments, Austin, TX).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The actual at-risk population was limited to those directly exposed and could be quarantined or monitored.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of monitor in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en monitory
- en monitoring
- fr monitore
- fr monitoré
- en monitors
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "monitor" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.