Monitor vs Approve - 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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* 1881 , , Chapter X,
(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,
To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.
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, title= To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (George Gordon Byron),
* (Francis Parkman),
To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
* (Henry Rogers),
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),
* (William Black),
(English Law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
As a proper noun monitor
is any of several publications eg the "christian science monitor".As a verb approve is
to sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm or approve can be (english law) to make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.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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* ----approve
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare prove, approbate.Verb
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- Opportunities to approve worth.
- He had approved himself a great warrior.
- 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.
- His accountapproves him a man of thought.
- The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.
- They had not approved of the deposition of James.
- They approved of the political institutions.
- Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of''), is often followed by ''of .