transcription, транскрипция: [ mɒnɪtə(r) ]
( monitors, monitoring, monitored)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you monitor something, you regularly check its development or progress, and sometimes comment on it.
Officials had not been allowed to monitor the voting...
You need feedback to monitor progress.
VERB : V n , V n
• moni‧tor‧ing
...analysis and monitoring of the global environment.
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2.
If someone monitors radio broadcasts from other countries, they record them or listen carefully to them in order to obtain information.
Peter Murray is in London and has been monitoring reports out of Monrovia.
VERB : V n
3.
A monitor is a machine that is used to check or record things, for example processes or substances inside a person’s body.
The heart monitor shows low levels of consciousness.
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4.
A monitor is a screen which is used to display certain kinds of information, for example in airports or television studios.
He was watching a game of tennis on a television monitor.
= screen
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5.
You can refer to a person who checks that something is done correctly, or that it is fair, as a monitor .
Government monitors will continue to accompany reporters.
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