Monitor

'mɒnɪtə(r)

noun

a device used for observing, checking, or keeping a continuous record of something

The word 'monitor' comes from the Latin word 'monere' meaning 'to warn'. It was originally used to describe a person appointed to supervise students, later evolving into the electronic device we know today.

I knew, I knew There was a place untenanted in it; In that same void white Chastity shall sit, And monitor me nightly to lone slumber.

John Keats

Poetry

Thoughtfully, hands locked behind his back like a general reviewing troops, like General Black Jack Pershing, his boyhood idol, Starkey moved down to monitor 4, where the situation had changed for the better.

King, Stephen

The Stand

JUDGE OF THE CHANGE: an official appointed by the Landsraad High Council and the Emperor to monitor a change of fief, a kanly negotiation, or formal battle in a War of Assassins.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

On Monitor Two, Barris was talking to Luckman, who apparently had rolled in the front door dead drunk, no doubt on Ripple.

Dick, Philip K.

A Scanner Darkly

"Don't tell me a machine as sophisticated as you can't monitor your own trackage for breaks."

Stephen King

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)

“I shall monitor your behavior carefully during Marge’s visit.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

When I think of this deggerredation, I feel that I can bear even my flat nose and purple gown, with yellow skyrockets on it.” Meg was Amy’s confidant and monitor, and, by some strange attraction of opposites, Jo was gentle Beth’s.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

And really, she insists on so little—a store entrance that must be underground so she can, ah, monitor my clientele; and a favor now and then.

Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero

The suitcase has a built-in color monitor screen with graphics giving information about the status of this weapons system: how much ammo is left, the status of various subsystems.

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

With little parted talons she captures his hand, her forefinger giving to his palm the passtouch of secret monitor, luring him to doom.

James Joyce

Ulysses

He put the monitor M.31, whose shallow draught fitted her for the job, in the end of the southeastern creek of the harbour, whence she could rake the probable direction of a Turkish advance with her six-inch guns.

T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

I should put a monitor on my mind and question everything that rises there.

Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse: Dune

He had found a troll on the sidewalk outside the office, and, in a vain attempt at injecting a little personality into his working world, he had placed it on his computer monitor.

Gaiman, Neil

Neverwhere

Tyler drilled a computer monitor and filled it with gasoline or black powder.

Palahniuk, Chuck

Fight Club

He has seen me on the monitor.

Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay