Noun

The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant' s grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.

The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.

Noun

The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.

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.

The information flashed up on the monitor .

a machine code monitor

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.

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 !

You need not be a monitor to the king.