Monitor vs Moderator - What's the difference?
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Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
* 1829 , Charles Sprague,
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.
(computing) A program for viewing and editing.
(British) A student leader in a class.
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(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
(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.
To watch over; to guard.
* 1993 , H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide , World Health Organization,
* 1997 , Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers , Volumes 23-373,
* 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,
someone who moderates
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# an arbitrator or mediator
# the chair or president of a meeting etc.
the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
(physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
(UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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(Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
As a proper noun monitor
is any of several publications eg the "christian science monitor".As a noun moderator is
moderator (mediator, chairman, web forum administrator).monitor
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Alternative forms
* monitour (obsolete)Noun
(en 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.
Derived terms
* hall monitor * hallway monitor * monitor lizard * water monitorSee also
* display * screen * VDUVerb
(en verb)page 134,
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
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- During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
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- 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, trackExternal links
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(wikipedia moderator)Alternative forms
* moderatour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Angling was a moderator of passions.