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Corvette vs Monitor - What's the difference?

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In nautical terms the difference between corvette and monitor

is that corvette is in a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty while monitor is one of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.

As nouns the difference between corvette and monitor

is that corvette is a flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war while monitor is someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.

As a verb monitor is

to watch over; to guard.

As a proper noun Monitor is

any of several publications e.g. the "Christian Science Monitor".

corvette

English

(wikipedia corvette)

Alternative forms

* (l) (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
  • (nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.

    • monitor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * monitour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
    • The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
  • * 1829 , Charles Sprague,
    • And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
    A monitor , though still;
    Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
    Beyond the preacher's skill.
  • 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.
    • The information flashed up on the monitor .
  • (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
    • a machine code monitor
  • (British) A student leader in a class.
  • * 1871 , ,
    • So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors , who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
  • * 1881 , , Chapter X,
    • But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors !
  • (nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
  • (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.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • You need not be a monitor to the king.
  • (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.

    • Related terms

    * admonition * admonish * admonitory * monition * premonition

    Derived terms

    * hall monitor * hallway monitor * monitor lizard * water monitor

    See also

    * display * screen * VDU

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To watch over; to guard.
  • * 1993 , H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide , World Health Organization, page 134,
    • Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
  • * 1997 , Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers , Volumes 23-373, page 239,
    • During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
  • * 2002', Mark Baker, Garry Smith, ''GridRM: A Resource '''Monitoring Architecture for the Grid'', in Manish Parashar (editor), ''Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop , Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,
    • A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored' and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance ' monitoring , analysis, prediction and tuning.

    Synonyms

    * oversee, supervise, track

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