Monitor vs. Leguaan — What's the Difference?

One that admonishes, cautions, or reminds, especially with respect to matters of conduct.

An iguana.

A pupil who assists a teacher in routine duties.

Any of the monitor lizards

A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system.

A video display or speaker used in a production studio to check audio or video quality

(Computers)A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen; a video display.

(Computers)A program that observes, supervises, or controls the activities of other programs.

An articulated device holding a rotating nozzle with which a jet of water is regulated, used in mining and firefighting.

A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century with a low, flat deck and one or more gun turrets.

A modern warship designed for coastal bombardment.

See monitor lizard.

To check the quality or content of (an electronic audio or visual signal) by means of a receiver.

To check by means of an electronic receiver for significant content, such as military, political, or illegal activity

To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information

To test or sample, especially on a regular or ongoing basis

To keep close watch over; supervise

To direct.

To act as a monitor.

Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.

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.

A studio monitor or loudspeaker.

(computing) A program for viewing and editing.

A student leader in a class.

(nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. from 1862

(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.

A monitor nozzle.

(transitive) To watch over; to guard.

One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

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.

Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.

An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.

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.

A monitor nozzle.

Display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen

Someone who supervises (an examination)

Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

An iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions

A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble

Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance