Monitor vs. Television — What's the Difference?

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

Television, sometimes shortened to TV or telly, is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television show, or the medium of television transmission.

A pupil who assists a teacher in routine duties.

An electronic broadcast system in which special providers transmit a continuous program of video content to the public or subscribers by way of antenna, cable, or satellite dish, often on multiple channels

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

Video content, especially short programs, created for or distributed through such a system

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

An electronic device for viewing television programs and movies, consisting of a display screen and speakers

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

The industry of producing and broadcasting television programs

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

(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

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

(countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.

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

(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

A modern warship designed for coastal bombardment.

Vision at a distance.

See monitor lizard.

To watch television.

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

Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects;

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

A receiver that displays television images;

To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information

A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points

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