monitor

monitor is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
2. noun. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
3. noun. Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
4. noun. An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
5. noun. 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 successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.
6. noun. any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

   Synonyms: varan

7. noun. a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
8. noun. electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
9. noun. display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
10. noun. an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
11. noun. someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

    Synonyms: admonisher, reminder

12. noun. someone who supervises (an examination)

    Synonyms: proctor

13. verb. keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance

    "we are monitoring the air quality"

    "the police monitor the suspect's moves"

    Synonyms: supervise

14. verb. check, track, or observe by means of a receiver

Synonyms

varan, admonisher, reminder, proctor, supervise

Common word forms

monitors, monitored, monitoring

Words from these letters

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