Talk:monitor

I'm not sure that the meaning the word has in the phrase trade monitor is represented here.82.131.26.166 09:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I think it's included in the very first sense. I would need to see one or more quotations or links of the term in use to know for sure. DCDuring TALK 01:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Missing sense?
The Webster 1913 supplement has another sense for this word: "a monitor nozzle". I don't know what that actually means, though. Equinox ◑ 21:39, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ Sense added (linking to monitor nozzle). Equinox ◑ 16:43, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

School monitors
I'm not sure that the British school use of "monitor" to mean a kind of lower-ranking prefect is archaic. We certainly still used it when I was at school in Scotland in the 1980s, and I see that "monitor" badges designed for school use are still on sale on-line: http://prefectschoolbadges.co.uk/Red-Polydome-Bar-Monitor-54. It might be better to delete the "archaic" tag, and why not put a picture of one of these badges into the article? --Doric Loon (talk) 13:14, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

An 1828 citation
Not certain whether it's "one who watches" or "one who gives instruction" here. See full book text.


 * 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
 * "I am far frae justifying myself," returned Andrew, surveying his shrivelled monitor with some degree of astonishment. "But there are some feelings that neither reason nor religion can o'er-master; and there are some that a parent may cherish without sin."

Equinox ◑ 14:49, 27 August 2021 (UTC)